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Originally Posted by ottischwenk
The individual reading distance is the one you strive to see the unpixelated text as comfortably as possible.
And the unpixelated text can be seen at 7.8/10.3 of the 10.3 reading distance - the fact that one has to squint more for this is unquestionable and also makes it more uncomfortable.
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If you need to use more than +1.5 (or maybe stronger) reading glasses, the only comfortable distance is that the glasses are designed for. They'll sell you different glasses if you regularly use a screen twice as far away. I sit and position my computer screen so it's book reading distance away.
Few people can see pixels at 300 dpi and almost no-one at normal viewing distance. But the 167 dpi approx eink is noticeably poorer.
The difference in the Original H2O resolution and the 300 dpi is not normally noticeable, but obvious with smaller fonts than the regular body font, like marginalia or footnotes or inline quotes.
Also rendition of grey shades for antialiasing helps, hence Black, White and 14 Greys of eink at 167 dpi is better than 200 dpi fax as it is only black or white. Laser printers and inkjets are better than they used to be at 300dpi, 360 dpi or 600 dpi due to ability to vary the dot size. An LCD or CRT at 120 dpi can look good due to thousands of shades allowing far better antialiasing, and for LCD and OLED the subpixel addressing.
See / and \ under magnification.