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Originally Posted by HarryT
The non-illuminated screens are a little sharper in bright light (eg sunlight), I agree. As soon as you're reading in poorer artificial light, though, the extra illumination provided by the frontlight more than makes up for any loss of clarity due to the light diffuser, to my mind, and those are the conditions in which I do the overwhelming majority of my reading.
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This. While my eyesight is too poor to be able to see differences in sharpness, I fully believe others could see it. For me, a 160 dpi Kindle was already enough. I don't need 250, 300 or 500 dpi, as I am unable to see the difference.
The move from the Touch to the KPW1, which brought both a light layer but also 212 dpi vs 167 dpi, made no noticable difference in sharpness to me, but the light layer boosted the Kindle's clarity to such an extent that I could now use it in places where the Touch was unusable, but a *paper* book could (just) be read.