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Originally Posted by Mivo
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.
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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.
Barry