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Originally Posted by rcentros
No, all things being equal they would be the same. 300ppi on the 7.8" screen requires a higher resolution. (The 3 has a resolution of 1072 × 1448 whereas the Glowlight Plus (7.8") has a resolution of 1404 × 1872.) As Sirtel mentioned, it's the extra capacitive layer that makes the 7.8" a little less sharp. When I was comparing them at the store I couldn't see much difference (that's why I thought the 7.8" might have had an infrared touch screen). But I've learned from experience that the first impressions at the store can sometimes be deceiving. I do know that both screens looked really sharp and clear.
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All our needs as eReader consumers are different, though. I find the difference in sharpness negligible given what I will gain in screen realestate.
For instance, try reading the $50 techie programmer book like "Code Reading", by Diomidis Spinellis, availabe on B&N's store and google play on the gl3 to the 7.8 inch screen
Same goes for mathematics books like "What is Mathematics" by Courant and Robbins and "Mathematics for the Million" by Lancelot Hogben
There is all kinds of images and diagrams in these books and they are not even pdfs but epubs.
A dirty little secret of the of the eReader world is eReaders have not changed much in innovation in years now so the screen sharpness can't really matter that much in my reasoning except to the most anal people.