Paperwhite Second Gen: First Impressions

Originally Posted by sparklemotion

The funny thing is when I got my last PW1, the one I ended up keeping, and compared to all the other PW1's I still had at the time, the screen seemed quite yellow. My original PW1's all had very blue screens in comparison. Then when I got the PW2 wow it was SO yellow it made my PW1 look blue! Crazy. I'll be curious to see what happens next year with the PW3.

Yes! Let us hope the third time around is the charm, as they say!

I am considering going to Best Buy on Wednesday and buying a PW2, although I'm still debating that with my alternate personalities. But if I do I will only try one unit. If that unit is not a keeper then I will return it and await the PW3.

Originally Posted by Barty

I think the LEDs are the same. It's the screen and / or the light layer itself that is yellow. I can see this clearly when I plug it into the PC and it goes into USB mode and the lights shut off completely.

If it is the screen or light layer causing the yellow tint then that might be another quality assurance issue. Not everyone is getting an overly yellowish screen, so there might be a lot of variations. It seems that many who report the overly yellow screens also report greyer text/font than on units with non-yellowish screens.

[sparklemotion]

Originally Posted by jswinden

If it is the screen or light layer causing the yellow tint then that might be another quality assurance issue. Not everyone is getting an overly yellowish screen, so there might be a lot of variations. It seems that many who report the overly yellow screens also report greyer text/font than on units with non-yellowish screens.

I have noticed that too. The 3 PW2's I saw all had that same yellow screen, not too much variation between them, but all definitely yellow. It's crazy (and frustrating) how much these units vary. I'd be curious to see one that didn't have a very yellow screen.

Originally Posted by sparklemotion

I have noticed that too. The 3 PW2's I saw all had that same yellow screen, not too much variation between them, but all definitely yellow. It's crazy (and frustrating) how much these units vary. I'd be curious to see one that didn't have a very yellow screen.

I'll let you know if I get one that isn't too yellow.

[sparklemotion]

[aceflor]

Originally Posted by jswinden

I'll let you know if I get one that isn't too yellow.

Unfair..!!!!

[xendula]

Originally Posted by sparklemotion

I have noticed that too. The 3 PW2's I saw all had that same yellow screen, not too much variation between them, but all definitely yellow. It's crazy (and frustrating) how much these units vary. I'd be curious to see one that didn't have a very yellow screen.

Maybe the tech makes it simply impossible to create exact results, and this is why the device screens vary. My second one is very yellow, while my first one resembles more a very much improved PW1: still has the pink and green background, but much less pronounced, and defintely not a yellow tint.

[sparklemotion]

Originally Posted by xendula

Maybe the tech makes it simply impossible to create exact results, and this is why the device screens vary. My second one is very yellow, while my first one resembles more a very much improved PW1: still has the pink and green background, but much less pronounced, and defintely not a yellow tint.

Maybe, I have no idea. I'm just shocked at how widely they all seem to vary. I find it almost humorous that my PW2 didn't have color blobs, yet I still preferred my color blobbed PW1 over it. Funny how things can go. Did you decide which one you will be keeping?

[Katsunami]

I often read in bed, using a lamp that points at the Kindle over my left shoulder. (Or more accurately, it points just beside it, or otherwise it will create glare.) I could read without any frontlight; I did so with the Touch.

However, the frontlight of the Kindle makes the page brighter; I raise it to *just* below the point where you start to see that the Kindle is lit by anything else than the lamp behind me. Setting the frontlight like this makes the screen more readable.

What I like to know if the KPW2 changes the following...

If I would raise the Kindle's frontlight more than mentioned, the screen does become brighter and whiter of course, but in a very strange way. As I said in another post some time ago, it looks like "milk between two sheets of glass with letters floating in it". It looks really strange, and the screen becomes really hard to read, at least for me. Also, the letters seem to look smaller, but of course they aren't.

Does the KPW2 change this? I'm assuming that if I'm experiencing a too bright frontlight like this that there are more people around to whom it looks the same.

[Matches Malone]

I spoke to amazon about the pinholes in my screen and they sent me a replacement kindle that I received today. The replacement kindle has zero pinholes but instead has a slight green tint to it. I'll be keeping the pinhole pw2 for now.

[sparklemotion]

Originally Posted by Matches Malone

I spoke to amazon about the pinholes in my screen and they sent me a replacement kindle that I received today. The replacement kindle has zero pinholes but instead has a slight green tint to it. I'll be keeping the pinhole pw2 for now.

It's sad when you have to choose between pin holes or color hues. I'd have chosen the one without with green hue too though.

[tomsem]

Originally Posted by HarryT

It's perhaps worth noting that the only place that swiping is needed is to turn pages on the home screen. When you're actually reading you can simply tap the screen to turn the page.

Swiping is 'safer' if what you are reading has lots of footnotes. Also tapping can be balky with cold, dry fingers.

[xendula]

Originally Posted by sparklemotion

Maybe, I have no idea. I'm just shocked at how widely they all seem to vary. I find it almost humorous that my PW2 didn't have color blobs, yet I still preferred my color blobbed PW1 over it. Funny how things can go. Did you decide which one you will be keeping?

I'll probably send back both, as much as I regret it.
I tried to read on the second one, the yellow one, last night, and the contrast is just worse than the PW1. I'd trade in pink-green blobs for a yellow screen with low contrast and sparkling dust particles. I was hoping for a better screen than the one I have, not worse. Plus, I like to use my own fonts, so I guess I'll just live without the vocabulary builder for now... Darn it!

[xendula]

Originally Posted by sparklemotion

It's sad when you have to choose between pin holes or color hues. I'd have chosen the one without with green hue too though.

Ditto.

[sparklemotion]

Originally Posted by xendula

I'll probably send back both, as much as I regret it.
I tried to read on the second one, the yellow one, last night, and the contrast is just worse than the PW1. I'd trade in pink-green blobs for a yellow screen with low contrast and sparkling dust particles. I was hoping for a better screen than the one I have, not worse. Plus, I like to use my own fonts, so I guess I'll just live without the vocabulary builder for now... Darn it!

I know exactly how you feel, believe me. Initially when I got the second PW2 and I thought it was perfect (before noticing the pinhole) I was pretty happy, until I really tried reading on it for an extended period. Then I realized the contrast wasn't that great and it gave me a headache. It's so frustrating. Honestly, I could probably deal with the pinholes as long as they are not too prominent and in the way of text, but I can't deal with yellow screens that make the text washed out. Sorry yours will likely be going back.