Originally Posted by Katsunami

Hm. They look like stuck pixels.

I am near-sighted, and read without glasses. I'm sure I'd be able to pick up all of those pinholes while reading the first page.

To be honest, I'm seeing the same thing that was happening with the very first LCD-screens about 15 years ago. Many came out of the box with one or more dead (always black), hot (always white) pixels. Later on, they became better, but now sub-pixels where sometimes stuck (the red, green or blue part of a pixel would be always off or on). Now, I hardly ever hear or read about dead or stuck (sub)pixels except in rare cases, as long as you're not going for the extremely el-cheapo LCD's.

For LCD's, there actually was/is a standard:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_13406-2

"The table below shows the maximum number of allowed defects (per type) per 1 million pixels."

Most LCD-monitors are Class II. This means that an acceptable LCD can have:

2 hot pixels AND 2 dead pixels, AND 5 stuck pixels (which may be grouped by 2).

This is per 1 million pixels. A 1920x1080 LCD-screen has 2.073.600 pixels. This means that you may have 4 hot pixels, AND 4 dead pixels, AND 10 stuck pixels (in groups of 2).

Standard or not, I would *never ever* accept a monitor that just barely meets Class II. I've actually never seen a Class I monitor in the wild; not even quite expensive ones. (Let's say, a €500 19" EIZO LCD, like mine, in 2007 was still Class II.)

In short: if Amazon wanted to, they could just state that the Paperwhite is allowed to have X pinholes, and if it has less, they don't accept returns, just like LCD-manufacturers do/did. I think it would hurt their sales though.