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Originally Posted by fearindex
Much bigger issues are the additional layers on top of the e-ink screen, the light guide and the touch layer, that push back the e-ink screen beneath the surface so to speak. Have a speck of dust on the screen for example and it seems to float "far" above the text on PWs, whereas on basic Kindles the text is right on the top just like on a page of a book, so dust doesn't seem like it is on a screen, but it is on the text.
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Maybe this is also the reason why the KPW1 display looks so weird when there is not enough ambient light. As I have described it several times already it looks "floaty", as if there are two sheets of glass with milk in between, in which the letters float around. The lower the ambient light is, the more apparent this becomes.
A tablet does not display (*) this same behavior.
(*Man, I'm on a roll with regard to cheesy puns the last couple of days.)
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PWs are much more like a screen, where as regular e-ink readers look more like a page from a book.
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Maybe, but I still prefer the KPW, because it's possible to make the screen brighter, and still set it so it doesn't look like it's lit up. A normal Kindle such as the Touch is quite a lot darker than even the oldest and greyest paperback I've held it beside to compare.
If compared to a high quality hardcover, it's no contest. The hardcover needs *MUCH* less light than a normal Kindle to be readable.
Even if one doesn't use the KPW to read in circumstances where a book would be unreadable with additional lighting, the extra screen brightness created by the front light can even the odds between the Kindle and a paper book.