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Originally Posted by WilliamG
This is a bad Kindle for several reasons:
1.) The lighting system (the pictures should tell the whole story). It looks worse in person.
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Wow. Many orders of magnitude worse than anything I can make mine produce. At its worst, on mine, the shadow cones are barely perceptible and <5mm in length, not coming anywhere close to reaching the text, far better than the PW1's cones. (I tried it in several external light conditions to make sure this wasn't something to do with degree of external lighting, but no, it seems to be genuine manufacturing variation.)
I do seem to have been lucky. The luck that protects fools and the ignorant is alive and well!
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2.) The screen has this annoying border where all sorts of dust etc get trapped. Also, it's not "finished" very well, with jagged edges in places.
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The border is irritating, indeed, but I don't see a way to avoid it. The case and bezel are metallic: the screen is glass. Modulo making the entire Kindle case out of glass (a weight nightmare), the two have to meet somewhere, and where they meet there will be a seam. It's not a very deep seam: a simple cotton bud cleans everything out of it in a few seconds. Time will tell if it collects as much gunge as the edges of a PW screen. (The Voyage probably has the same seam: how has that fared over time?)
There are no jagged edges on my Oasis that I can discern, so I don't know what part of it you think is jagged (I presume you're not talking about the battery contacts in the case
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Best screen I've ever seen on a Kindle. The first one I've ever had with not one single fleck of dust trapped under it anywhere nor any dead, immobile ink flecks (my K4 had both: my PW1 had an annoying dust fleck in the top centre of the screen).
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4.) The screen is not even in color, though it's certainly better than the Voyage.
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Perhaps I just don't read enough colour books to see why this matters. Almost everything I read is monochrome, and the occasional coloured chart is not worth losing the benefits of e-ink to see better. As for colour e-ink, it's reportedly still worse in numerous dimensions than B&W, including refresh time, total lifetime, and resolution. If a colour Kindle came out with all of those worse, would it be a net benefit? I really don't think so. Most books are mostly monochrome.