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Originally Posted by Quoth
Nor can colour eink. It maybe doesn't look as bad because the subpixels are pastel.
You keep contradicting yourself.
But MS Cleartype and others do run the LCD or OLED at native higher reolution if feasible. Basically actually having a higher resolution screen and not doing that is better (the Anti-Rainbow setting on eink or Cleartype – or equivalent – off ).
I'm glad you like the Kaleido, but it doesn't avoid basic physics and the fact you sometimes see artefacts should prove I'm not making it up. It may look sharper than a Kindle DXG's 150 dpi, but it demonstrably is a lie to claim it's the same sharpness and quality as mono 300 dpi eink, apart from the fact in ordinary ambient light good enough for a Kindle K3 or Kindle DXG (or any pre-Carta screen based on Pearl with no touch or light pipelayers), it's unreadible due to being too dark and poorer contrast. I've seen Colour eink in person, not just online photos.
I'm happy for there to be choice, but the Colour Libra is certainly not a replacement for the Libra or Libra 2, only an alternative that's massively inferior if mono is enough. It's only a better alternative if you need colour and are happy to use a front light and insist on eink.
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No I'm not. Kaleido 3 has a RGBW color mosaic designed to keep black text sharp (See
here). Standard LCDs don't have white and don't have a layout designed with mono text in mind.
I never said there was no sharpness loss, personally at normal reading distances I can't tell sharpness-wise between a 300 PPI B&W Boox Nova 2 vs the Libra Color. I bet most people would be hard pressed to say there is a
sharpness difference either. Contrast, sure. It also looks clearly better than the 200 PPI Note Air I have. I think it's totally fair to say it's 300 PPI since a letter at the same font size will have exactly the same number of black pixels on a Kaleido 3 screen as a non-Kaleido 3 screen. It just so happens that some of the Kaleido 3 black pixels have RBG color filters on top that you can't see (because they're black!).
I know you've seen colour eInk in person, but I don't believe you have used a Libra Colour, nor any Kaleido 3 device for an extensive period of time?. I don't think you've used one in the same places and lighting conditions as your usual devices. I find the Libra Colour pretty dang readable without the front light in a lot of situations. It's also a much faster device than the Libra 2.
Yes, in direct head to head comparison it's worse from a contrast persepective. But IMO it doesn't take long to get used to it.