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Originally Posted by John F
Does ppi really make a difference? Older eink was much lower ppi, and people didn't seem to have problems.
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No, it doesn't... not for me.
The old Kindle Touch with its 167 ppi (800x600 at 6 inch) was at least as good or better than most of the paperbacks I had back then. The Kindle Paperwhite with 213 ppi (1024x768 at 6 inch) was as good as a hardcover book printed on good quality normal paper. The KA1 with 300 ppi is about as good as a hardcover book printed on semigloss paper. (I dislike semi-gloss paper. My paper copy of Musashi is printed as such, as was my Dutch version of LotR).
In short, if you happily read paperbacks, especially older ones, a 167 ppi screen is enough. Everything above that makes it just better, but it's not required.
People telling me that they "can't read" anymore on anything less than 300 ppi, or "can't use a phone" with anything below FullHD on 5 inch (452 ppi) should be saying "I don't want to any longer because something better exists."