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Originally Posted by Katsunami
It's the same thing I was thinking; I see many of the same people here that I also saw in the PW2 and PW1 threads. I think those people will never be satisfied with any front-lit reader, except if they get one that actually *is* 100% perfect, but I think that chance is almost 0%.
What I would like to know however, is how people unsatisfied with current front-lit readers regarding color, lighting and evenness read normal books in the past. Most paperbacks are not perfectly even in color, they're not white (far from it, they're mostly yellow), and when using a reading light, you'd have an epic amount of shadows.
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Well, that is untrue as I love my Kobo H20.
And I was one of the people that was very vocal on the PW1 and 2 threads as I had a hard time finding decent ones. I even like my PW2, but the font is more washed out. It did take me a few tries to find a good PW2, but it was moreso due to other imperfections. Color hues on one, screen was very crooked on another and another had a bunch of glaring pinholes, etc.
My main issue is seeing color hues. Clearly some people are more sensitive to it than others. I wouldn't want to read a paperback that had blue, pink, and green tones on it.
It was impossible for me to find a PW1 I was happy with (color hue issues galore) and it was the same for the voyage, although I only tried one voyage and returned it, but I saw enough pics online to know it wouldn't work out for me. I now have the H20 and I'm extremely happy with the first one I received. Evenly lit screen and no color hues. So it's really not a matter of us being too picky to enjoy a reader with a light at all. Some of us simply have more sensitive eyes and see colors that others don't on some of the devices. In my case, I've only had an issue with Kindles.