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Originally Posted by Belle2Be
I just ordered a paperwhite 2 only to come read here and read some dissatisfaction about it! Just tell me, is the light on the screen/ screen layer thickness/color better or worse than my current situation-
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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Better, by about 1286.31%. Uh... Aproximately 
If you're coming from any reader using an external reading light, *any* lighted reader will be heaven. |
I'm not so sure that is so universally true. It come down to personal perception too.
I used to read Kindle 2 with a flashlight and obviously it was an uneven experience in a sense, but then the light would naturally follow my movements and wouldn't be perceived as unevenness on the page, but just a natural way light works. Same with the lighted covers of e.g. Kindle 3, as they are not part of the screen itself.
I found Paperwhite 1 to be far more annoying experience than any e-ink reader and external light, really. When you have a lit page, that is splotchy in a random but constant pattern, that does take away something that no amount on uneven external lighting would - in my view - do. If an external light moves unevenly on my book, the natural reaction is just adjust the book or the light. But if the light is inherent to the "page" itself, and is uneven or has other anomalies, it is far harder to forget about it for me. Plus a lighted screen, even evenly lighted one, looks more like a computer screen than a page from a book.
Paperwhite 2, the replacement I got, is okay-enough for me to read, but even then I do consider non-lighted Kindles better when reading in the dark, more paper-like and book-like, and integrated lighted covers as the best-so-far solution to the lighting problem.
Anyway, my longer views on this explained in my signature link...