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Originally Posted by hap124
The displays, unlit, are objectively darker. You can place older Pearl devices next to Carta ones and see the obviously darker background consistently. I find that a regression regardless of other tricks added. People wouldn't read paper books with pages that dark.
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Well, no. At least in my experience.
I was curious, so I just did a side-by-side comparison of three Kobos, the Mini (200 ppi), the Glo (213 ppi) and the Glo HD (300 ppi), with the light turned off on the latter two. The Mini had the grayest page, hands down. I only ever read on that in bright sunlight.
The background shade of the Glo and the Glo HD was similar; however, the Glo HD has much crisper text, as you'd expect with the higher resolution and a Carta screen rather than Pearl.
Then for giggles, I compared the Glo HD to the Aura One and the Glo HD still has the crisper text, no doubt because it's infrared compared to the One's capacitive touch. I admit that all of this only bears out my off-the-cuff impression going in.
Back in the day, I was delighted to read on unlit, low-resolution screens. But now I've seen better, I wouldn't go back, nor do I deceive myself that the older devices were just as good. They weren't. However, we get used to technology and I think an effect is that we're not reading with the rose-colored glasses of first crush several years down the road.