A lot is made about the difference between Amazon’s Kindle and Apple’s

Published 7:00 am Monday, August 16, 2010

A lot is made about the difference between Amazon’s Kindle and Apple’s iPad when it comes to price and features. But equally important for an e-reader is what it actually looks like when you read on it. That’s long been the Kindle’s strength — an ability to recreate the actual reading experience — and it shows even more when you look at both under a microscope.As you can see, the iPad (left) already appears much more pixelated than the Kindle at 26x magnification.A difference that’s even more pronounced at 400x, when the iPad looks like an Atari 64 game and the Kindle type like a footpath made up of irregularly shaped stones. A pattern which mimics actual newsprint.