That orange glow was actually terrible white balance because of the context I took the photos. I Should have corrected those pictures, that orangy hue is not how it looks.
And if cartoons, graphic novel panels, newspapers rendered on e-ink don't seem like "anything even resembling art" to you that's fine. It's the most subjective thing in the world, but there are a lot of people who do.
My photos were not meant to be representative of the peak of how good the screen can look, else I'd have taken them again.
eInk is great for text, but lousy for anything even resembling art.