I can’t say that my eyes are forgiving, exactly, they’re just not very good. I really can’t tell that letters on a screen are slightly blurry unless I have my nose about two inches away from them.
My Voyage is of the two-toned variety. It isn’t the color variation itself that’s the problem, it’s that it creates an optical illusion; the text in the yellower section seems to be smaller or further away than the text on the rest of the screen. The effect is so strong that it’s impossible to ignore; I find myself moving the reader about in an attempt to read the top part of every page. It doesn’t help that despite the new high-res screen Amazon hasn’t added any more font sizes; I need something between the fourth and fifth ones.
On the other hand, I have no problem at all with the screens on either my PW1 or my six-inch Aura. When I look closely I can see that the text is not as sharp as the Voyage’s, and if I think about it I can see that there are various shadows, blotches, and light leaks, but I’m totally unconscious of all that when I’m reading.
The screen on my H2O seems perfect to me, no matter how closely I look at it. It’s a uniform cream color throughout and the text has no blurred edges. There’s plenty of room for the title at the top, page number on the bottom, and lots of that nice empty space all around that everyone else thinks is horribly wasteful.
For my absolutely ideal ereader to exist, I guess it would have to have color, and it would probably have to be two sizes at once. My H2O is great at home but the six-inch Aura is more portable.
On a less rational note, there’s just something about the small Aura that I find very appealing. Its proportions are unusual -- my other ereaders, like most modern printed books, are comparatively tall and narrow and thick while the Aura is short and wide and thin. It somehow feels like an old book to me – an effect enhanced by the fact that I have a very light and soft black cover on it. Someone in another thread had pictures of a cover that they’d dressed up by putting a skin on it and I’ve done the same – my husband scanned the cover of a paperback copy of Agatha Christie’s The Murder at the Vicarage and printed it on sticker paper for me. It’s beyond ridiculous how much I love it.
