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Hmmm, I wonder, do you often find yourself in the habit of reading pages with nearly no text on them? Must take you a lot of page flipping to get through a novel...
What I see "appears" to be a display cranked way brighter than most people could stand to read on, because of the brightness, even with 5% or so of it's area filled with black text, and so the halo effect is prominent around the LEDs at the screen edge because of the extreme contrast and brightness? Perhaps, I'm wrong, but I wonder if you adjusted it to extremes to make a point, or if you actually tried to adjust it to comfortably read on it and what it looked like then? Are you in the habit of cranking the brightness and reading with your sunglasses on while attempting to tan under the additional wattage? (it won't work, very little IR/UV component...)
Admittedly, I have only a Touch & an original Glo these days, but I've owned several frontlit readers and returned all but the Kobos in the end as the lighting was no better and they all exhibited some halo effects at the LEDs since they are somewhat wide angle, but still ultimately "point sources". The Glo has served well for some 6+ years, but I don't crank it so the background looks like a 100W bulb behind a sheet of paper as that amount of light hitting the eyes is somewhat unpleasant. My Glo makes a handy flashlight if cranked up!
You do perhaps make the point that considering the size of surface mount LEDs these days one must wonder why all manufacturers don't distribute more of them along the edge, or along two or four edges and perhaps alleviate some minor suffering by producing an even more evenly lit background? My guess, is that for most people it isn't worth it as they don't expect to reasonably read with a background far brighter than the reflected light one would normally get from a regular page of paper under "ideal" reading conditions...
Enjoy your Kindle.
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