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Originally Posted by Sirtel
The OP probably means the screen looked brownish with the frontlight off. That's how an average Carta screen looks when unlit - brownish/yellowish grey, as opposed to the lighter/whitish grey of older Pearl screens in the days before the arrival of frontlight. The manufacturers had to make the old unlit screens look as good as possible, since you couldn't make the screen whiter by adjusting the light. That's why older screens look better than modern screens when unlit.
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That the older ones look better is just an opinion since the brownish look to it would make it look more like paper, in a real book, than the pearly super white screen. You can't please all the people all the time.
Some paperbacks and hardbacks have whitish pages but a lot don't. So, since you can get either one or the other in the book world it should not matter. Before eReaders existed if I wanted to buy a book whether the pages where brownish or whitish would not have made the difference it would be the content of the book itself that would be crucial.