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Originally Posted by rashkae
Are you implying here that the Libra Colour B&W font redering is closer to 167 and 150 dpi devices than a Libra 2? Because, brother, that is not only wrong, it's outright delusional.
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No, but it's not 300 dpi mono without artefacts.
There is a setting to make mono rendering be 150 dpi, to avoid certain repeating pixel details causing a rainbow (coloured diagonals) effect.
LCDs and OLED (only with stripes, not patterns) can have subpixel addressing to slightly improve text. It's better off at about 140 dpi and higher, and the screens with 2 x 2 square pixels instead of 3:1 stripes and 1/3rd width are more prone to artefacts.
It's delusional to claim a 300 dpi mono panel with coloured dots printed roughly in the middle of each pixel (not covering it so as to brighten it and enhance 300 dpi mono content) in a 2 x 2 pattern is the same resolution as a 300 dpi panle without the coloured dots.
So it's better than a pure mono 150dpi but poorer than a pure mono 300 dpi. For 300 dpi mono content the quality and artefacts vary with content. The quality is only constant with minimal artefacts (possibly none other than "screen door" effect if the mono is rendered at 150 dpi.
It's delusional not to accept that for mono 300 dpi content that the Libra Colour isn't poorer than either model of mono Libra, especially with front light off and serif fonts designed for paper.
The Libra Colour is a backward step for reading actual novels. The 6″ screen is also too small for most 100% colour content. For novels you are sacrificing quality for 4 hours of reading a novel to see the cover briefly in colour.
My £229 14.25″ Nxtpaper 3.0 arrived this afternoon, but I'll keep the 10.9″ Nxtpaper 2.0 also.
I'll continue to read regular novels on my Libra or Sage.