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Originally Posted by quatermass
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.
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I'm sorry for your loss of the Voyage. But it was one of a kind. There were no screens like that before the Voyage either. How did you manage then?
Say what you will, in no way would I call the later Kindles or Kobos blurry, even if they're not quite as sharp as the Voyage was. Of course it helps that I choose a dark, contrasty font and don't depend on the default ones.