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Originally Posted by muse
I just received my Forma today and has the light issue. On top of that, the tone of the light is also uneven across the screen from the left to right. ...
My old H2O v1 also has a lighting issue which I've lived with for years.
Oh Kobo.
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My H2O v1 has perfect lighting. I marvel at how pristine it is. It tells me that Kobo can (eventually, if it tries hard) get things right. I believe I bought mine towards the end of the H2O manufacturing run, so maybe there'd been production problems regarding the lighting which eventually got worked out. Or I just got lucky. Don't know.
As for the Forma, I have the same two issues with the lighting. I live with the uneven lighting by just imagining it's an old book that was left out in the rain, so the pages got dirty.
I quickly forget about that. The stripe down the side I've "solved" with a strategically placed band aka CURB.
I've pretty much concluded a replacement Forma at this stage would likely have the same issues. I have yet to see a photo or video of a Forma in the wild (taken in a dim or dark room) that didn't show evidence of the same problem. I've kept my Forma because of a combination of screen size, how light and easy to handle it is, the buttons, and the adjustable color temperature.