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Old 08-26-2010, 10:09 PM   #46
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I just popped my K2I and my K3 onto my flatbed scanner to show a comparison of mine. The images on the computer don't even look nearly as good as with plain eyesight.
Since eInk is a reflective technology, it's highly dependent on incident lighting. Thanks for doing those on a scanner, which should impose the same luminance throughout the image. The difference certainly is noticeable, and it's the first comparison I've seen that really bears up the reports of the K3 having whiter backgrounds.

Would it be possible for you to do a similar scan on a page of text? It would have to be the same page in the same font on both to really work.

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As a non-Kindle person, it would be useful to have something identifying the different models in the pix.
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Old 08-26-2010, 10:56 PM   #49
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Since eInk is a reflective technology, it's highly dependent on incident lighting. Thanks for doing those on a scanner, which should impose the same luminance throughout the image. The difference certainly is noticeable, and it's the first comparison I've seen that really bears up the reports of the K3 having whiter backgrounds.

Would it be possible for you to do a similar scan on a page of text? It would have to be the same page in the same font on both to really work.

I'm the one in the corner wearing an 'I want to believe, but I need to be convinced' T-shirt.

Here you go, Chapter One of The Fellowship of the Ring.



Same as before cropped / shrunk image here with link to the original scan.
Left image with black border around screen is the Kindle 3, Right image with white border is the Kindle 2 International.




http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/6657/scan10004.jpg

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Old 08-26-2010, 10:59 PM   #50
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As a non-Kindle person, it would be useful to have something identifying the different models in the pix.
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Old 08-26-2010, 11:02 PM   #51
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Here you go, Chapter One of The Fellowship of the Ring.
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Old 08-26-2010, 11:17 PM   #52
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Here you go, Chapter One of The Fellowship of the Ring.
Thanks for that, it does show a real improvement, though in this case it's punchier blacks rather than whiter whites. Bah, I'd just got round to dismissing this all as hype and then you show this to change my mind .
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Just to go one further here's a small box grabbed from each screen.

Again K3 on left, K2I on the right.

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Thanks. It seems the difference is more noticeable using smaller fonts. Perhaps, it's the same comparing the nook.
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Old 08-26-2010, 11:50 PM   #55
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That is really neat. Thanks for showing us.
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Here you go, Chapter One of The Fellowship of the Ring.



Same as before cropped / shrunk image here with link to the original scan.
Left image with black border around screen is the Kindle 3, Right image with white border is the Kindle 2 International.
Great examples, thanks!
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Old 08-27-2010, 01:01 AM   #57
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Thanks for the comparisons everyone! It looks like I definitely made the right choice upgrading from my K2US! Like I really needed ti be convinced!

I knew the screen would be better, but I didn't expect such a big difference!! I thought I was only getting better connectivity - no Sprint coverage at my house. Now I see that I am getting a huge improvement on my reading experience too!
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Thank you very much Ajax! That is the most objective comparison of these two generations of E-ink.
I think I will wait for the next generation. Someone who saw a prototype at an E-ink booth a few weeks ago reported that it offered a 50% improvement over Pearl, according to measurements done by their engineers (contrast > 20:1).

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Here's another side-by-side comparison of the K2 and K3 displaying the same book. The K3 has a clearly whiter background and blacker text than does the K2, as well as being significantly physically smaller.
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Look at the top of the screen on those pictures.
Where's the battery meter, whispernet info and the title of the book? Have they removed this info on the K3?
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