Answers.Body: <p>No they don't. Otherwise Kindle screen pictures/ and similar picture on other e-ink devices would have been discouraged and the screen would had been blank on shutdown.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>I have found some of my Kindles have ghosting on the screens. I've bought at least 30 e-ink kindles, many previously owned by other owners. The ghosting tends to vanish as I use the devices, so it may be related to other causes e.g. where the device doesn't refresh every pixel. </p>
  
  <p>See <a href="http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/common-problems-and-solutions-for-your-kindle-pape.html">http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/common-problems-and-solutions-for-your-kindle-pape.html</a> and the tip on using Alt+G on Kindle DX and Kindle Keyboard devices e.g. <a href="http://thehowto.wikidot.com/kindle-dx">http://thehowto.wikidot.com/kindle-dx</a> </p>
  
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Body: <p>Back in the bad old days of CRT computer monitors, computer users were confronted with the problem of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_burn-in">burn-in</a>, in which a monitor that displayed the same image for too long would eventually have the image "burnt-in" - that is, the image would persist on the screen even after the display was changed to something else.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Do any e-ink displays suffer from a similar issue?</strong></p>
  
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Title: Do e-ink devices suffer from burn-in?
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ThreadText: # Do e-ink devices suffer from burn-in?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2013-12-20)
  
  Back in the bad old days of CRT computer monitors, computer users were confronted with the problem of [burn-in](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_burn-in), in which a monitor that displayed the same image for too long would eventually have the image "burnt-in" - that is, the image would persist on the screen even after the display was changed to something else.
  
  **Do any e-ink displays suffer from a similar issue?**
  
  **Tags:** e-ink
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2013-12-20. Score: 6
  
  No they don't. Otherwise Kindle screen pictures/ and similar picture on other e-ink devices would have been discouraged and the screen would had been blank on shutdown.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2013-12-20. Score: 5
  
  I have found some of my Kindles have ghosting on the screens. I've bought at least 30 e-ink kindles, many previously owned by other owners. The ghosting tends to vanish as I use the devices, so it may be related to other causes e.g. where the device doesn't refresh every pixel.
  
  See <http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/common-problems-and-solutions-for-your-kindle-pape.html> and the tip on using Alt+G on Kindle DX and Kindle Keyboard devices e.g. <http://thehowto.wikidot.com/kindle-dx>
  
  
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