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Old 05-18-2010, 10:21 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by dwallbaum View Post
... and I gotta say, the display pretty-well has my cherished K2 skunked. The background was two-shades lighter, the text was bolder and appeared to be more refined.

Is this just a function of firmware, or are there hardware issues that make it difficult for the K2 to give this more elegent rendering?

Thx!

Don
There are tons of debates around the impact of casings.
Interesting enough, some state a darker housing would increase contrast. Others state, a dark housing would divert the eye and would not be recommended.

But all parties agree about the impact of fonts.
nook "out of the box" has a way darker font than Kindle2. That's why the "font hack" is so popular on Kindles.


I've seen similar on Spring Design's Alex. PDFs had been rather "light". This was especially obvious with their user guide. With the firmware update, they've updated the user guide from PDF to ePUB. And suddenly it looks way darker -and way better. No change in the hardware obviously, but still an enormous improvement.
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