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Kindle screens seem to be amazingly inconsistent, even within the same model, and reviews aren't terribly helpful if everyone is going to get a different screen.
Shadows/cones/smudges are almost nonexistent on my Voyage and the text is very sharp and black but the distinctly two-toned effect drove me crazy. The text on my Oasis isn't as black and there are faint smudgy areas at side of the screen at some light levels but the color shift is nowhere near as pronounced.
Fortunately for me the slightly less than black text and the small smudges don't bother me at all (I didn't even mind the all-over blotchiness of the PW1) so my Oasis wins by a mile.
But yes, the crapshoot aspect of buying a Kindle sucks a lot of the joy out of the process. I think some evil genius at Amazon must have perfected a formula to maximize profit by balancing allowable tolerance in manufacture against predicted tolerance by customers.
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