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Originally Posted by ahi
People have a tendency (presumably on account of the crazy amount of money they spent on the device) to rationalize away its shortcomings. If 166 dpi text was acceptable in books, or if the difference was not noticeable (whether consciously, or just in the sense of people intuitively noticing that "one of these books looks better than the other one"), they wouldn't be universally printed at twice the resolution or higher.
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And let's not forget that the majority of text is printed using lithographic offset presses, which don't even deal with "resolution" since the black is solid and continuous (giving it an effectively infinite resolution). Resolution only comes into play for screened images/text. Of course, the quality of the printed text largely depends on the porosity of the paper it's printed on...