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Originally Posted by Quoth
My daughter got a Kindle Basic a couple of years ago as a present from my wife and I. Mysteriously it wasn't 167 dpi. I'd need to photograph side by side with the PW3 (and someone in the family might have a PW2?) to decide if it is 212 or 300. I did write down and post the model of it. Maybe Amazon ran out of screens that time and it's really a PW with the lighting disabled or missing?
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That's odd, but kind of cool.
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Originally Posted by Quoth
The 800 x 600 is OK on a 4.3" or 5" screen, but certainly it's noticeably poorer for text on 6" than any 212 dpi on anything. You can't do the subpixel addressing and anti-aliasing tricks that are possible with LCD and OLED. Even antialiasing is limited on eInk as it struggles even to do 14 shades as well as black and white.
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The main thing I notice about higher resolution screens is that I tend to read with smaller fonts. So, even though I don't notice the difference (too much) when I just look at the screen, it's obvious that my eyes notice the difference when I'm actually reading. It works the opposite way on lower resolution screens, I'll start reading with the font size I'm used to and then gravitate to a larger font when it gets uncomfortable.