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Old 02-04-2010, 10:06 AM   #582
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Originally Posted by mgmueller View Post
Just an idea: A single color for the entire housing, which is very similar to the background of the screen, may be less intrusive and may increase contrast. Some nook users for example wrote, the color touchscreen (when active, which you can manage in settings) would distract them a bit. No problem for me with nook, but it really may be an issue.
In another thread someone for example wrote, his next reader won't be black again but white.
But I agree, it's not a "looker".
I agree with this. For devices like the kindle or nook, I think the apple-esk super-white frame around the gray-ish e-ink display makes the screen "appear" even more gray. When you're trying to convince people the wonders of e-paper and how it's like paper, you don't want it to look like an old un-backlit LCD display. Other devices like Sonys use darker color frames and there are always skins one can apply to the frame. I like having the frame being the same color as the screen as it allows you to display documents with zero margins (except for *cough* pdfs) and have the frame be a non-distracting physical margin.
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