E-ink technology just has a white reflection of 40 - 45 %. So when frontlight is turned off, it will never look as white as paper. CLEARink claims that its bistable platform can reach up to 80 % reflection. But I don't expect it will be released this year. But maybe you can try the following thing. Hold/place the Icarus Illumina XL HD under a reading light / table lamp with at least 40 W and at the same time turn the front light of the ereader on. Doing so the external light / table lamp will work as a bluelight filter. Then it must look really white very close to the white of a paper sheet.
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Originally Posted by etatoby
Here are a few pictures comparing a real manga with the best scanlation I could find. The pictures were taken in overcast daylight through a window, with e-reader frontlight turned off. As you can see, nothing compares to the real thing yet, both in detail and paper brightness. But the scanlation is still quite readable.
In the macro picture of the e-reader I tried to focus on the pixels underneath the "frosted glass" surface of the screen (otherwise you would just see the frosted glass texture.) You can see the pixel size if you look at the vertical motion lines on Yotsuba's t-shirt. They are easily an order of magnitude larger than the ink resolution on the paper version!
PS: I'm using this $6 Neewer Clip-On 3 Element 20x Macro Lens, in case you want to take similar pictures.
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