a postmortem gray...

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/08/03/090803fa_fact_baker

Just read Nicholson Baker's (delightful) piece on the Kindle:

``The problem was not that the screen was in black-and-white; if it had
really been black-and-white, that would have been fine.  The problem was
that the screen was gray. And it wasn't just gray; it was a greenish,
sickly gray.  A postmortem gray.  The resizable typeface, Monotype
Caecilia, appeared as a darker gray.  Dark gray on paler greenish gray
was the palette of the Amazon Kindle.

``This was what they were calling e-paper?  This four-by-five window onto
an overcast afternoon?  Where was paper white, or paper cream?  Forget RGB
or CMYK.  Where were sharp black letters laid out like lacquered
chopsticks on a clean tablecloth?''

He goes on to say that he found himself able to read a book on the
Kindle, after getting himself revved up over the book by starting with
the paper version and the iPhone version.

Bill


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