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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Wow, such a rant! 
I for one would not buy an ereader without the warm light, and no doubt many others wouldn't either, so where are those hordes of customers Amazon should listen to in this? You seem to be in the minority with this preference, from what I've read here through the years.
And for the record, the Oasis 2 with no warm light had worse contrast than the Oasis 3 has. So no, it's not the warm light. |
What I said is that since putting a stake thru the Voyage, Amazon has refused to release a Kindle with a high contrast screen, white as paper, which is the name of the product so it's clearly a selling point. Open a book. Black letters jump out against the white BG. That used to be the selling point; gorgeous contrast. You need a warn light, fine. But what about the rest of us who need the high contrast that Amazon used to set as a goal of perfection in the Kindle?
I can't read on a low contrast, cheap, blurry screen which is now standard across the line. A warm light, even at its lowest makes it close to unreadable for me and others. Add a warm light, put it at its lowest setting and the "white" screen is even worse than on a Kindle without that feature, or on any Oasis since the original tiny one. Bottom line; Kindles post-Voyage cannot do true paperwhite. Add a warm light, even worse. It's amazing how Amazon managed to sell millions of Kindles over a decade before the warm light trend.
How about a Kindle for the rest of us? Like, I dunno, the peak Kindle called Voyage? Just one damn device with a quality screen and no warm light. No one who looks at text on a Voyage says, "eh, it's okay." As I've posted a dozen times, there's millions of us who loved our Kindles cuz the text looked like a new book and not one that's been out in the sun all summer. I need a Kindle to read. My eyes are shot. I need the high contrast, cool screen and the ability to embiggen text. Y'know, a Kindle. They don't come out every year anymore and with every rare upgrade I expect them to go farther from the ideal, at higher cost and they never let me down. What about people like me? Too bad?
Yeah, I'm now a ranter, cuz my favorite device is pretty much gone now and I'm not seeing much better in the competition.