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Originally Posted by Raphi'Elohim
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.
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It's not the tint that's the problem...it's how DARK that tint is. I have NEVER seen a paper book with pages as dark as an unlit Carta background. Pearl backgrounds are much closer to the lightness of a paper book. Go put your Carta devices, unlit, next to various paper books and tell me the background is not significantly darker. It requires the front light to even approximate lightness of a page and using that light washes out text more as you increase it so its a losing battle for contrast.
This isn't some super picky tint debate. Most books are cream colored, not grey, and I like them fine. It's about background darkness and contrast. The unlit Kobo h202 I have here, and every unlit Carta device I have looked at, is twice as dark as a book page...which is twice as dark as a white sheet of paper itself. Even newspapers with their grey ugly paper have lighter backgrounds. That is a significant difference and not just opinion. Overall color tint is another issue entirely and not a bother for me. it gets frustrating hearing that facts are "just opinions". The screens ARE darker than books and older screens. That it doesn't matter to you doens't change that.