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Originally Posted by Quoth
Kaleido "color" eink is actually old tech, and mis-sold. It can never be as good as mono eink for mono and can only be slightly improved by having smaller or more translucent dots (makes it more pastel). Inherently poorer contrast and mono is only artefact free if at 150 dpi, unless they make a 600 dpi panel. I use reading glasses to read, so it no way matches 300 dpi Carta HD, never mind Carta 1200.
Also I only use a front light if the ambient light is too poor, which is rarely. I now have three Nxtpaper based "gadgets" and even the 14″ one is cheaper than a smaller Color Boox comparable to size of the Sage. They are fine for battery life, colour and glare.
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It's still 300 DPI B&W on Kaleido 3. It looks better than the 200 DPI B&W Note Air I have, and the quality difference between B&W and monocolor text (actually 150 DPI) on the same screen is obvious. I don't have any older 150 DPI devices anymore but the Libra Color is IMO fine. I found Japanese kanji unreadable at my preferred text sizes on the last 150 DPI device I had, so much so I got rid of it for that reason and got a 300 DPI one. Not the case with the Libra Color.
The tech is "old" but Kaleido 3 improves contrast and sharpness over the older models. eInk is "old" tech too.
I mainly read with light off too and this is fine even out of direct sunlight or lamp light during the day for me. At night it can be too dark in places where a B&W reader wouldn't but it's easily solved by turning on or moving a lamp.