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Originally Posted by dh003i
Yet, despite that, the Amazon Kindle 2 seems to have less contrast than the Sony PRS-505 & PRS-300.
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As pointed out above, the difference stems mostly from the font in use.
Kindle2s use a rather thin font and compound the issue with antialiasing. The problem disappeared with the (now-disabled) font hack that allowed the use of darker fonts (Georgia, for example.) There is also a bit of a perceptual contrast issue because Kindle (and many of its imitators) use a bright white case instead of a gray or black case.
The Pocketbook 301 and 360 models let you use any truetype font, they let you enable or disable anti-aliasing, and on top of it they feature an embolden option that slightly emboldens all fonts (without disabling italics or bold text attributes).
My exposure to the Sony 505 is limited (just an hour or so of use) but I saw nothing special in the display when I set it side by side with my BeBook. There is theoretically a possibility that the glass and antiglare coating used by a particular ebook reader might have a minimal impact on contrast but none of the models I've seen "in the flesh" are significantly different.
YMMV but I'd worry more about about the software (especially font and embolden support--to say nothing about parser quality and stabiliy) than the hardware issues. At this point in time there really isn't that much difference in the screens. That *will* change in the near future as PVI's role as the universal eink supplier is challenged but if you're buying now you're getting a choice of exactly five screens: a 5 incher, an 8 incher, a 9.7 incher, and two 6 inchers.