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Originally Posted by sirmaru
With the circles I can see them but they are so faint as to be irrelevant to me.
I get my eyes checked 4 times per year because of the macular degeneration for which there is no cure. Checking that won't cure it. I can also see through the cataract with just an effect of nearsightedness ever so slightly.
However, I can read on the PC monitor, my Kindle screens and other printed material PERFECTLY. I don't need to detect pin holes in my situation.
The fact that I am reading this now without any glasses or surgery and almost every pin hole "fan" probably has eye glass corrected vision may also be a factor here. Maybe the eye glasses exaggerate the pin holes.
As I said earlier, MOST folks have defective vision making PIN holes irrelevant to them. That is the reason I have always received Kindles with perfect screens. I cannot see the defects seen by others.
By the way, there was a video testimonial on the review section of the PW 2013 saying that a 90 year old woman with macular degeneration, who could not read any books for TEN YEARS, was able to now read clearly with the PW 2013. Maybe Amazon is catering to the elderly like me and focusing on giving us good reading experiences and simply forgetting those with eye glass perfected vision who are bothered by pin holes.
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If you don't see the pinholes, or they don't bother you, that is perfectly fine of course. Also, I'm glad you are enjoying your Kindle and it is quite possible your own Kindle is also better than is being portrayed here in defect reporting. I'm sure majority of Kindle PW2 readers are like you.
But I do have to wonder why you have to make such wide-reaching (and obviously faulty) conclusions about people who see these imperfections. While I agree they aren't (likely) any kind of majority, I think it is a stretch to assume people who are seeing them do so because of laser-corrected eye surgery or eye glasses exaggerating the effect or whatnot. That just sidetracks the conversation. There is probably a very large host of different reasons why people are susceptible to seeing imperfections and why not.
Personally I don't wear glasses on the computer or when reading on Kindle, but I also don't have that good vision, nor have I ever had any eye surgery done... and I could see those pinholes the second the picture opened to my screen. They are very obvious to me.
The problem with pictures like that, of course, is that we don't know how our respective monitors are or are calibrated and thus, how well they represent the original device on our own screens. Some of us might have more accurate representation on our screens than others.