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Originally Posted by Tony1988
By improved display they meant they added better lighting. Lighting is now a part of the display. It's still 300 dpi. I can't see the display getting anymore improved unless they add color. I doubt an increased Dpi will make much more difference to the text....
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It really does. If you go up to 1200dpi, say (yes, that's a big jump, but that's the dpi of a *poor* phototypesetter, so that's the dpi of the published books they're competing with -- or it would be if the books didn't use cheap paper, see below), the nature of the fonts you can employ changes markedly. (You can start using much thinner ascenders and descenders without running the risk of them disappearing, to start with.)
The appearance changes too, for the same reason. 300 dpi: visible pixellation, just; 1200dpi: no chance, not even with the kestrel-sharp vision that most humans who are not me are blessed with. To me things look oddly chunkier on 300dpi than on 1200, and 1200 is definitely nicer to read.
Most people are barely aware of this because a lot of fiction is printed on low-quality paper in the first place, and 1200dpi is not really distinguishable from 600dpi on paper that absorbs and spreads the ink anyway. But get a good textbook and take a look.
