10-24-2012, 04:40 PM | #46 |
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A question for Kolenka, what colour is the light on your KPW? From what I can see, of the pictures of good KPWs on this forum, all have a bluish light.
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10-24-2012, 05:16 PM | #47 | |
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When at full blast, it does look a touch cool with indoor lighting. When low for night reading, it looks a bit on the warm side. It is a weird effect, probably due to the off-white background of the eInk. But the thing is that the Nook Glow I had stayed cool at any brightness. The background stayed pretty much "grey" at any brightness too. With the PW, the background itself seems to go from "grey" to "white" with the light on. It's just really hard to find words to describe the differences. |
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10-25-2012, 07:51 AM | #48 | |
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10-25-2012, 10:15 AM | #49 |
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something I noticed is that the tinge of the light differs according to "ambient light" : when I'm readin in the dark or having deep shadow behind the Glo, the tinge is clearly blue (and I, for one, like it) but if I have an incandescent light behind the Glo (reading in a poorly lighted room for example), the tinge becomes clearly warmer (not to say yellowish).
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10-25-2012, 12:24 PM | #50 |
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I also think there is a difference between ereaders within the same brand. Two Kobo Glos I looked at were perfectly white in all conditions. They were so good that I actually said 'wow' out loud even though I was alone. Two were bluish under some condition, as vice-versa has said while one had an aqua hue to it under those conditions. None of the ereaders with coloured hues were intensely coloured. They had just a slight hue to them.
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10-26-2012, 01:54 AM | #51 | |
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<head> <title>Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat</title> <link href="../Styles/stylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> </head> After this, I use search and replace to change the body, paragraph and other tags as needed. I've used Calibre for some stuff but I find it too limiting in terms of what I want to do. Sigil gives me the power to make the ebooks look the way I want them to look. After some practice, it takes an average of 15 minutes for me to do my restyling of an ebook. Since I use fixed margins, line spacing, paragraph spacing, etc. the Kobo settings have little effect so I seldom need to use them for sideloaded books. Regards, David |
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10-27-2012, 07:43 PM | #53 |
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I just played with a demo Paperwhite in Best Buy. Splotchy, uneven lighting at the bottom, screen had a reddish tinge to it. Yeah it was pretty snappy, but the Glo is a much more refined machine.
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Thank you for sharing this second video. Why would I want to read (as suggested in the video) at super high brightness in the dark?! I only use super-high brightness when there's a fair bit of ambient light; I use the very lowest brightness setting in the dark. |
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10-27-2012, 09:17 PM | #55 | |
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I guess the only think I did like about the Paperwhite was that it "felt" a little lighter than the Glow. And the left/right bezel is a little wider, so that made it a bit easier to hold. But only by a TINY amount. The glo is much more "holdable" overall, in other positions....if that makes any sense
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I'm coming off a tablet-style e-reader, so any e-ink e-reader feels crazy lightweight to me. |
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