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Originally Posted by cct1
I agree that this is the issue. The light doesn't permeate all the way to the top, and that's the rub.
I love the reader otherwise, and I've found that by turning the light as low as possible for the conditions, it's tolerable. I don't read in the dark, in that case it would be too distracting, but I'm thinking of holding on to mine because otherwise it's pretty darned good.
I wonder how much more expensive it would be to place on the top and bottom to even out the lighting, and what it would do to battery life, I'm skeptical that only light coming from the bottom will result in consistently evenly lit screens.
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I could not disagree more. Why is it that Kobo has managed to successfully produce at least two generations of evenly-lighted, blotch-free, color hue-free, beautiful displays with the LEDs in the exact same location as the Kindles? They too are positioned at the bottom yet are *not* plagued with the chronic problems found with many of the front-lighted Kindles. For the record, I've owned and used an assortment of PW1s, PW2s, Kobo Aura HDs and now an H20.
Having to tolerate lighting shortcomings is inexcusable and unnecessary, IMHO. How on earth Amazon's executives in charge of product development have allowed yet another release with the same problem/flaw and lack of quality consistency simply befuddles me. :banghead: