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Originally Posted by tdonline
Things I've noticed in a day of ownership: 1) auto brightness = flickering light?
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Well, all LEDs flicker: the only way you can adjust the intensity of an LED is to make it turn off sometimes and on the rest of the time. Usually this is thousands of times a second and more or less imperceptible, though. You might be hypersensitive to interference beats between (also flickering) incandescent/CFL/LED house lighting (all of which flicker one way or another) and the differing flicker frequency of the LEDs in the Kindle. It's worth seeing if turning house lights off makes the lighting seem less flickery.
I have noticed that the auto-brightness moves in perceptible increments when it changes light intensity, which might be visible to you as flicker (though it's not actually flickering, just changing in jumps). I barely notice it when I'm looking for it, though.
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Originally Posted by tdonline
2) warm light, not completely sold on it...it's similarity to urine hue is ummm...difficult to ignore.
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You could also think of it as an 'old paper' hue. Old books with cheap paper go a very similar colour
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3) alignment is not available in Oasis??!!
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It is, but this depends on the book format, since in typical halfwitted Amazon software-misengineering style every single book format has a completely separate reader implementation with different features (as well as different interpretations of all the font size and spacing settings). Only the readers for AZW3 and KFX books support controllable alignment: the reader for older MOBI books, including periodicals, doesn't. (But if you're generating your periodicals from Calibre you can tell it to align as you prefer when you make them: the ebook-convert flag to look for is --change-justification.)
There is probably not much reason to generate new mobis that aren't periodicals these days, but of course you might have lots of older books that are mobis already and aren't changing.