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Old 11-06-2015, 04:39 AM   #18
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I'm extremely short-sighted (my glasses have a correction of +11 diopters), and often read at night in bed without my glasses on, with my reader or phone held only 3 or 4 inches from my eyes. I couldn't personally see any difference in text smoothness between the 260ppi Kobo H2O and the 300ppi Kindle Voyage. Both just look completely "smooth", with no pixels visible on either. On the other hand, I can see pixels on my 212ppi Kindle PW2, so for me the pixels "disappear" at a pixel density of somewhere between 212 and 260ppi.
Ah - interesting. I suppose it might be the same for the OP. But I still don't see that the extra size is helpful when the reader is held so close.
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