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Originally Posted by littlefoot59
The PW1 must have been a nightmare. I also think that Amazon made a grave mistake when they named the first e-reader ever with a front lit screen "Paperwhite".
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On the contrary, the PW1 was a huge, huge improvement over the earlier non-illuminated devices. The introduction of lighting, uneven or not, was (for me, at least) THE single biggest improvement since eInk devices first appeared. You need to consider these things in the context of what was available at the time, rather than in comparison with later devices.
Note, BTW, that the PW1 was not "the first e-reader ever with a front-lit screen", but simply the first produced by Amazon.