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Originally Posted by Blossom
Oh dear! Poor guy posting in Kindle fandom land.  I've seen so many pics like that with the PW1 just search here at MR and you will see many who have that problem last year. It does seem to be less though than last year where blobs were the biggest issue. Now we got pinholes taking its place and a new issue of sepia backgrounds |
Just to clarify, the ones in the pictures in the linked part of the thread were PW2, not PW1. I know PW1 is a much older story of course with pictures of the issues all over the Internet. PW2 is still a much newer story and we are yet to really see the full picture, as I'm sure you too agree.
I know KBoards can be a tough audience, but I think my concerns have gotten a fair hearing there.
By the way, speaking of quality control issues, it is either that, general LED allowances or generational changes that mean my 2011 Kindle 4/5 official lighted cover shines a colder, brighter light than my new 2013 covers. Some pictures here:
http://www.kboards.com/index.php/topic,164293.0.html
It is one thing to have issues with a lighted cover, or even with the screen contrast of a Kindle, but in PW1/PW2 all of these are combining in the single device. With the baby Kindle at least you can swap the lighted cover separately and swap the reader separately if there are issues etc. All those layers and several LEDs (all with allowances that may or may not match) in PW1/PW2 really have potential points of weakness still, it seems.
I did, for a while, consider using the PW1 with a lighted cover but stopped trying that due to the awkwardness of most suitable clip-on lights I found. No matter its imperfections of the latest baby Kindle lighted cover (I had to fix mine:
http://www.kboards.com/index.php/topic,131020.0.html), the small light taking power from the Kindle is just that convenient.
If anyone can suggest a great lighted cover for PW/PW2 then I might consider that, of course?