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Unfortunately, that luxury comes at the cost of significantly worse contrast, so if you're sensitive to that kind of thing, having colour covers also greatly degrades the actual reading experience. Some people are bothered by the "rainbow" effect of the colour matrix when reading greyscale content, and others are not. YMMV.
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That's why I qualified my statement with "if you're sensitive to that kind of thing". The contrast is objectively worse on Kaleido screens, but it's still good enough that many people don't care, which is why Kaleido is successful. People just need to know what they're getting into, as Kaleido is not a pure upgrade: it's a tradeoff.
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Onyx, Pocketbook, MobiScribe, Kobo, and possibly others are continuing to release new models with Kaleido 3 panels, so yes, it's a success. Companies don't continue making products unless people are buying them.
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