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Old 01-29-2018, 05:50 PM   #126
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Originally Posted by Mivo View Post
A little off topic and I should ask elsewhere, but I have been wondering if the flush/glass screen causes glare effects? Do you see a reflection of yourself on the display in bright surroundings? This didn't occur to me until I read in a review that e-readers with flush screens degrade the text minimally (compared to, say, the display on the Glo), but it has been on my mind since.
It's not the flush screen that degrades things it's the fact that the Glo used an infra-red touch screen and the flush screen forced them to use a capacative touch screen, so that's why the light is less even on the original Aura. A capacative screen requires an additional layer to sense touches while infra-red doesn't.

However, that was early in the life of touch screens and capacative layers are much improved. My new Nook Glowlight 3 uses infra-red and it does make the text a bit sharper than my Kindles but the difference now is very small. You can tell it if you look close, while with the early Kobo's the difference was very noticeable.

I have the latest Paperwhite, the Voyage and the Glowlight 3. The first two are capacative. The Glowlight uses infra-red. Putting them side by side I have to look carefully to tell that. The original Aura was still a good screen. The Paperwhite and the Voyage are truly excellent. The Glowlight is just a bit excelenter.

I really like this new Glowlight for a lot of reasons but my guess is that when the new wears off I'll be back reading on my Paperwhite. It's the ideal reader, to my way of thinking. I liked the flush screen a lot till I realized that having the raised bezel helps me avoid accidental page turns. That, to me, gives the Paperwhite the advantage over the Voyage.

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