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Originally Posted by Barty
There's been a lot of positive buzz on the Libra 2. The screen is quite nice and very even. No gradient. I can't even tell where the lights are without looking at it edgewise. Reviewers and owners alike give it the edge over to the new Paperwhite on clarity and contrast. I want it badly to best my voyage, too, because I like the larger screen, the warm light, dark mode, and because I'm so ready to make the jump to Kobo, more open, more customizable, more active development going on. Like Mulder, I want to believe!
And yet, and yet..
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I'm definitely not an expert on the subject, but based on your picture the Voyage is not showing a lot of the finer details of the image, compared to the Libra 2. See the difference between the signatures on the bottom right corner, or some of the smaller circular details in the hairstyle (like top right, under the butterfly wing), the hairline... I'm not sure if that also depends on how the Kindle and Kobo softwares handle grayscale conversion. What's black looks equally black in both screens to me.
It is true though that there's a certain generation of E-Ink screens that was really white, and I'm not sure there's been any screen quite as white in the following releases. The Voyage is one example, but the Kobo Aura H2O too has the whitest screen of all the readers I've ever owned, even though it didn't have 300ppi. The Glo HD screen too was really nice.