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Originally Posted by DanielSt
From what I have read, anti-aliasing isn't necessarily going to be visible to the naked eye, unless one has particularly good vision. But some people report getting symptoms such as headaches and eyestrain from anti-aliasing -- the fuzziness evidently forces the eyes/brain to focus more, or to try to focus on the blurry text, such that some kind of stress occurs in sensitive individuals that does not occur with non-anti-aliased text.
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That is a good point. I hadn't considered the case of people with significantly above average acuity being bothered by the bluriness being perceived as out of focus. Computer monitors in the 90's had significantly lower resolution than is common today. Anti-aliased text and complex shapes looked fine to me, but long straight diagonal lines looked like out of focus ropes to me and it was definitely uncomfortable to view. With anti-aliasing off the jaggies looked even worse, so it was a frustrating time.
It's hard for me to imagine that on 300 dpi e-ink, but i guess it is possible. But I still think the differences you are seeing between kindles are due to something else, because I still think all kindles have always used anti-aliasing.
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Originally Posted by DanielSt
Aha, so my current Kindle probably uses anti-aliasing.
Recently, my symptoms using my laptop have gotten worse, and I turned off anti-aliasing using a program called Iris. I did actually feel a relaxing of my eyes while looking at text upon doing this, but I still get the symptoms. So anti-aliasing might cause some kind of discomfort, but it does indeed seem likely that it is not the cause of the main symptoms.
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I've had problems with computer OSs / applications that use color sub-pixel rendering of black and white text as a form of anti-aliasing. I see color sparklies that drive me bonkers. It's even more horrible on monitors rotated 90 degrees to give portrait orientation, and especially horrible on monitors whith the color stripes in a different order than what is most common.
In any case, sub-pixel text rendering might be part of the problems you are having with your laptop that shouldn't happen on e-ink.