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That's with WiFi turned off
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Cool, but I'm used to leave WiFi on. I love to have a quick look at wikipedia depending on the book I'm reading. Going into the settings, activate, back to home, back to book, look it up, go to settings, deactivate, go to home, go back to book would be too irritating while reading...
Ah btw anyone, since my PW arrived today: unbelievable that they forgot to add a "Back to book" button in the menue
If I'm in a dictionary (more... etc.), in the browser or anywhere else, I always have to go to home and pick up my current book again
Light is pretty blue on mine btw, however it's not as bad as the PW1 is, which is the only one allowed to see outside the box at the stores here. When the light is turned way down, it becomes warmer, since the background is indeed slightly amber toned grey.
There are a lot of small dust particles between the display layers, but visible only with the light maxed. Looks like a cheap paper fake haha, can live with that. PRS-T2 is sharper and brighter unless PW's light is turned on.
What I love about the PW:
Very small fonts are still readable whereas on the Sony, they would look broken due to it's lack of resolution.
The light is very evenly distributed, slightly colder towards the bottom though.
DICTIONARIES!!! Oxford and Duden, I bought Pons for EN->DE translation and they all work like a charm. In the dictionary, I can also mark and lookup words and - yay - can switch dics while doing that. No other system in the ereader market can do that.
Wikipedia access is VERY snappy, though it's always HOME->back to book unless you don't follow links on wikipedia. For short text from wikipedia, there's a very fast overlay which can be closed -> even better than my Sony :-)
The original AZWs I bought from Amazon, look way better otb than any epub I bought: no silly publisher's formatting it seems (e.g. excessive use of blank lines, fonts that look worse than even Amazons Caecilia)...
The GUI is as snappy as my Sony's - yay!
What pisses me off: Amazon knows how stupid their widest margin setting is. That's why they use the SMALLEST margins for STANDARD setting. Come on! Why not drop the left setting (80%margin, 5 characters/line for text or so), leave the smallest for standard and add a NO margins or 5px to the right: no change in GUI, and standard would be the value in the middle, just like with line spacing
That's so incredibly stupid.
Caecilia is the worst typographical accident I've ever seen. Comic Sans looks more harmonic. At least they gave it a standard looking sister named Caecilia Condensed LOL, which doesn't look condensed at all, but quite ok for what it is.
The rest of the fonts is to worthless on that reader to even mention their names, except for Baskerville, which I've seen on other occasions where it looked nice, but not after Kindle devs raped and tortured it.
I will now test it for a few days to make sure it's intact, then JB. After some more reading this wonderful place here about that topic.
Overall I'm glad I have the PW2 and the chance to make it useable for me, thanks to so many dedicated guys here at MR.