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Old 09-24-2014, 01:35 PM   #56
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One thing that matters to me is screen durability. Voyage has a glass screen unlike any other ereader. Sounds good to me in terms of durability, but I am worried it would interfere with reading. Again, I'd have to test drive it in different environments. Amazon claims it's micro etched glass so that it's evenly lit and doesn't interfere with reading. They are promoting it as having texture like a high quality paper would. I'm sure Amazon's test users didn't complain about it, but I have some visual sensitivities, so I wonder about this.
For me, the glass screen is a negative. Glass strikes me as being more likely to break. Micro-etched sounds like adding a layer over the screen that is designed to scatter light which is not likely to do much for contrast and sharpness.

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The H2O lower resolution could be noticeable because of its larger screen size. I would have to compare the two with my own eyes. This is only a small plus for the Voyage for me.
Minor nit: the Voyage and the H2O have identical resolutions at 1080x1430. The PPIs are different as the Voyage needs a higher PPI to fit the same number of pixels into a smaller screen. You might want to compare this to watching 1920x1080 HD video on a 40" or a 50" screen -- same resolution, different screen size.
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