Thread: Kindle 2 flaw: Lighter text causing headaches?
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Old 03-09-2009, 05:26 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by alphabet55 View Post
Interesting read. It's sad to think that the Kindle 2 is causing headaches for some people. Amazon should just give the end-user the option to choose text and background lightness/darkness.

That ghosting thing sounds irritating. Is it as bad as the article makes it seem? I'd like to know before I get a Kindle 2. D:
The ghosting issue exists, but it's *mostly* just a problem in the status bars at the top and bottom of the page. When you come out of sleep mode, those don't fully refresh, and when you hit the next page button, only the text of the book is refreshed, not the status bars. It's *not* a problem for reading at all, nor does it make the status bars hard to read either. But if you're obsessive-compulsive about anything looking 'off', then yeah, it might bug you and require you to Alt-G to refresh the screen.

The only other time I've seen ghosting is after viewing some particular images but not others. Again, Alt-G fixes the issue.
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