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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I love how GoodEReader is complimenting the screen of the Libra 2 vs.the PW5.
And it seems that the flush screen is not nearly as good as the slightly sunken screen.
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For me that is a trade-off. I prefer a flush screen, it’s easier to wipe down, and am willing to give back some clarity for that convenience, and for it being more damage resistant than Voyage (damage resistance was beyond scope of the review; you’d probably need to be prepared to destroy several of each to make any determination).
It seems to me there are shadows cast by the sunken screen as well; they seem about the same in the video, but the lighting for a video is not ‘real world’ lighting, so it’s inconclusive. A question I would have is whether Libra 2 is less damage resistant if it has a thinner top layer on top of the actual display.
Amazon has confirmed it has Carta 1200.
Note the PW5 in the review is not running the latest firmware, so a number of the UI observations are invalid. And for some reason, Amazon has pre-announced some forthcoming changes, which we can only speculate about. (The existing design changes have not been universally welcomed by some Kindle users, but people who don’t like some change or other are disproportionately vocal: it’s a human thing)
PW5 does not have ‘fast page turns’ (except for manga) but it does have Page Flip (for most Kindle ebooks), which lets you preview 9 pages at a time, and then you can move 9 pages at a time, which is pretty fast even on PW4, and should be significantly faster on PW5. And this includes buttons to navigate to next/previous chapter without having to time when you lift your finger off the screen or going to TOC. Of course it would be nice to have both ways to navigate. Amazon has it for manga, why not add it for other formats?
All this aside, most people will be predisposed to one or the other, for many reasons. “Which is better” isn’t really a question they are asking themselves. But I thought the review was reasonably fair.