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Originally Posted by BionicGecko
The one thing I take home from all this is that Amazon seems to source components from a variety of providers with varying levels of quality control. From mine and other people's experience it is clear that the evenness of the lighting can be quite different from one unit to the other, but now I see that the e-ink screen itself can be different as well.
Buying a Kindle turns out to be a rather unpleasant game of roulette.
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This is actually the case for Kobo devices as well. I ordered 3 Kobo Libras and the white one had a blueish screen, one black one had a very sickly yellow screen, and the other black one was greenish, but whiter than the other two.
I ended up returning all 3, because I couldn't get used to the 'busy' screen (in comparison to the Kindle screens).
So I guess it's roulette with all e-readers. I've known this for years and I keep hoping that this will stop and that all e-reader screens are a good white, adjustable for reading in the dark with warmer light, no ghosting, and all evenly lit. But apparently that's too much too ask...
