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Originally Posted by rashkae
I'm pretty sure the PW4 is singularly responsible for the reputation of of flush screens being bad, but it was an aberration. Amazon's own Kindle Voyage that predated it is still widely considered the best monochome e-ink screen ever sold.
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It is very hard making a flush screen be as good or better than a sunken screen in image quality. The Voyage is the one great exception, which nobody has been able to repeat (including Amazon).
I haven't seen the Sage, so I don't know how good the screen is, but nobody seems to be saying that it's better than the Libra 2 screen.
I have had a lot of e-readers and the flush screens have always been worse than the ones without extra layers. With the exception of the Voyage and the newer Onyx Boox Go 10.3 and Note Max. In the case of the latter ones the increased contrast comes from removing another layer - the frontlight - while keeping the glass screen on top.
I agree that a lot depends on the implementation.