A major selling point of the Barnes & Noble Nook is that color LCD screen.
Look at how sharp those cover thumbnails look!
In person, it’s less than fantastic.
This is a reduction of a large JPEG provided by Barnes & Noble, to make it just about the same size as the Nook’s true-life LCD display:
Even that would be pretty good.
However, this is what that Nook LCD really displays:
So, even if you can get color cover thumbnails, don’t expect them to be all sharp and pretty as the simulated pictures have been leading everyone to believe!
