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Originally Posted by fearindex
Contrast can be improved by blacker blacks or whiter whites. By many accounts PW2 is able to produce a somewhat more even and lighter background than PW1. The blacks don't have to be better for the contrast advertising to be true.
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I would also point out that a blacker text is not necessarily going to provide more contrast. If the text is blacker and the font is thinner, it might be less contrasty. If the text is blacker and the background is whiter, it might be more contrasty. However, if the text is blacker and the background is whiter, but the background is also dirty/dingy/shadowy looking, it might be less contrasty.
My PW2 has a whiter background than the PW1s I had. I think the blackness of the text is about the same, but it has been almost a year since I sent the last PW1 back. But since my PW2 background is somewhat darker than the sides, text tends to fade into the background a bit. That is, the text looks washed out. So my PW2 has less contrast than any non-lighted, Pearl screen Kindle I've ever owned. (That includes K3, KDXG, K4B, and Touch.)