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Originally Posted by emai7s2
That's funny - today I played with a PRS-600 for the first time, and was expecting to be disappointed by the screen in view of the generally negative comments I've read here.
To my surprise, I thought the screen looked great. I'm a PDA guy, so I like touch screens and the ability to change pages by simply swiping a finger across the screen. The pages turned very quickly, and the dictionary function also looked good.
To summarize: I was pleasantly surprised by the overall quality of the Sony Reader touch.
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Even I, the e-ink hater guy, wasn't frightfully disappointed at the touch screen Sony. It's low contrast sure, but that's like saying a toddler is not very tall. Sure, the 505 has a slightly better black, but that's not saying a whole lot at all.
Perhaps I have not developed so fine an eye to distinguish the ghastly differences between lousy e-ink and slightly lousier e-ink. Neither is paperlike and neither is really unreadable in English unless awful fonts are used at their smallest sizes. With good fonts, you can get down to the 8pt font range and still be usable (8-9pt on a 6" screen starts to approach the per-page text density of a paperback).
Most of the complaints I've seen about the 600's contrast either come from people who have tried to vindicate another ebook reader purchase using screen quality as a judgment criterion (very common among 505 purchasers, but also common among first-time buyers who needed reasons to justify the price relative to tablets/netbooks), or others who would have been disappointed with e-ink in the first place (which is not an uncommon reaction at all).