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Old 09-06-2013, 05:11 PM   #301
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Personally, I like the night-mode. That could make the light more usable in a dark room.

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Old 09-06-2013, 05:23 PM   #302
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Personally, I like the night-mode. That could make the light more usable in a dark room.

Wow! I didn't catch that! Thanks.
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Old 09-06-2013, 05:39 PM   #303
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Personally, I like the night-mode. That could make the light more usable in a dark room.

That doesn't look too bad. I hate the night mode used by some iOS and Android apps because the dark area is too black and the text is too white resulting in my eyes seeing lines whenever I look away from the reader. In other words, the contrast is too great to be useful. But since eInk screens are more dark grey and light grey it might work without that effect. To see how a too contrasty screen looks, see this link: http://www.dpreview.com/. I have to change my browser color settings just to view it.
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Old 09-06-2013, 05:40 PM   #304
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Personally, I like the night-mode. That could make the light more usable in a dark room.

Are you sure this isn't just a still of when the PW is refreshing?
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Old 09-06-2013, 05:43 PM   #305
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The oh no was that I think you are going to be owning two more ereaders.
I'm waffling. But I do have to think about what I want for Christmas, and my birthday in March....like I could hold out that long! Umm...maybe?
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Old 09-06-2013, 06:02 PM   #306
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Are you sure this isn't just a still of when the PW is refreshing?
I haven't got a clue about the PW2, but I seem to recall another manufacturer had an eInk reader with night view option. Was it a Kobo or Nook? Or maybe I'm just senile, but I do seem to recall reading that. I hope the PW2 has it. I think it will work much better on an eInk screen than on an LCD screen due to less contrast. Funny, but with black text on white screen we need or want more contrast, but white text on a black screen works better with less contrast. For me anyway.

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Old 09-06-2013, 06:20 PM   #307
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I haven't got a clue about the PW2, but I seem to recall another manufacturer had an eInk reader with night view option. Was it a Kobo or Nook? Or maybe I'm just senile, but I do seem to recall reading that.
The Cybook Odyssey has it & IIRC some Onyx Boox devices too.
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Old 09-06-2013, 07:58 PM   #308
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Old 09-06-2013, 10:05 PM   #309
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HEY GUYS. I was here last year for the great Color Blob Watch of 2012. (I recognize some names, hi jswinden and xendula.) I called it quits after three units at launch; then about two months ago I bought one at BB on a whim and it was blob free.

Needless to say I have a pre-order in for the new one. Hopefully we don't all experience severe déjà vu in a few weeks.
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Old 09-06-2013, 10:28 PM   #310
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HEY GUYS. I was here last year for the great Color Blob Watch of 2012. (I recognize some names, hi jswinden and xendula.) I called it quits after three units at launch; then about two months ago I bought one at BB on a whim and it was blob free.

Needless to say I have a pre-order in for the new one. Hopefully we don't all experience severe déjà vu in a few weeks.
Hi there!
Darn, I guess I should have waited a few months, but I just could not make myself give up on it last Oct/Nov/Dec.

I LOVE what you named the historical event of last year:
"The Great Color Blob Watch of 2012"
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Old 09-06-2013, 11:04 PM   #311
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HEY GUYS. I was here last year for the great Color Blob Watch of 2012. (I recognize some names, hi jswinden and xendula.) I called it quits after three units at launch; then about two months ago I bought one at BB on a whim and it was blob free.

Needless to say I have a pre-order in for the new one. Hopefully we don't all experience severe déjà vu in a few weeks.
Hi Trauma Doll! I'm going to wait this year to see what you guys think of the new PW. I hope you get a good one the first time!
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Personally, I like the night-mode. That could make the light more usable in a dark room.

Yeah, right... The Kidney Paperwhite does not have "night mode". Troll harder!

That comparison was probably from a blog or some article that talked about the "Regal" waveform/wavelength, where the second gen (the one on the left, usually) performs a full page refresh 50% less often than the first gen (~9 pages instead of 6), feature which I probably won't use since I don't like ghosting at all and will set it to refresh after each page anyway.

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Old 09-07-2013, 05:20 AM   #313
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Funny how we all either saw no blobs at all, or blobs all over the screens. I wonder if those of us who saw the blobs are tetrachromats. There is an ongoing study about this. (they may be mistaken by limiting it to only women)
Men could in theory be tetrachromats too, *if* they have more than one X chromosome (possible: as long as they have a Y too, they'll be male) or have a (surely very very rare) translocation that moves OPN1MW or OPN1MW2 onto a different chromosome. Since tetrachromats already seem to be rare...
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I am an amateur astrophotographer too, do you hang out over on CloudyNights forums much?

An e-reader is a great companion for long nights out at the scope.
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Yeah, right... The Kidney Paperwhite does not have "night mode". Troll harder!
What is this Kidney Paperwhite you speak of? Link?
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