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Originally Posted by johndoesecond
Just to clarify two things.
No, I am not using refresh after every page.
I kind of have years of user experience with eInk; I wrote my post in the first place because this behavior isn't there (or at least is much less noticeable) on my K4.
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OK, thanks, I suspected it would be with partial screen refreshes. Try full-screen refreshes some time and see if you can spot it then?
Yes, I agree what happens on PW1/2 is new compared to the basic Kindle, but I still believe it probably is the screen refresh in action. I refer to my experience with the light adjustment pop-up on PW1 above.
It is possible - probable even - that because PW1/2 has a higher resolution and new fonts that there is a new refresh algorithm there. Perhaps the partial refresh is done by first painting the text in black and only then adding the anti-aliasing to the text so make sure the result is uniform, so there is no ghosting on the sides of the fonts.
It is likely that PW's higher resolution enables more finesse in the fonts, which in turn demands more from the partial screen refresh algorithm, to keep that finesse from being messed up by ghosting. By loosing the anti-aliasing from the fonts (grey on its sides) they could of course increase contrast, but at the same time decrease the finesse of the fonts.
I'd probably prefer more contrast too.