[tintin42]

Edit: Fixed links and image sizes. Added a second example of wash out without text bleed.

Dear everyone, new here and new to e-ink in general. Bought a Kobo Aura and it is wonderful to read on, but I am wondering if what I see regarding a washed out screen is normal. I suppose it has to do with how the device refreshes the screen.

Quite frequently, maybe 25% of the times I put the Aura to sleep the screen is woefully washed out like this. Sometimes there are shadow text lines like in the first image, but other times there are none.

As a comparison, the third image is what it looks like at a successful sleep. This can always be done after first entering the home screen and then setting the device to sleep:

When I turn it back on and start reading the text is also faint (much fainter then when I stopped reading before the sleep) but improves after a couple of page turns. I normally have the device set to refresh every chapter but if I have the refresh set to every page it does not help this problem. The screen is still washed out quite frequently when sleeping, and the text is faint for a couple of pages. It is not a really big issue for me, I am more wondering if this is normal or if the screen on my Aura is worse than average. Using firmware 3.3.