While I was reading Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Amazon also sells a range of covers for the Kindle that cost between $30 and $60. The Paperwhite works with any USB-C power cable and adapter, but if you don't have one laying around, Amazon sells one for $14.95. The new Paperwhite lasts about a week with heavy use, but you can greatly extend battery life by turning off the front light and Wi-Fi.Īmazon includes a power cable, but no power adapter. It doesn't support fast charging, however-it still takes several hours to charge and powers up at no more than 9w. (In the case of the Signature model, though, wireless charging cradles sometimes trigger the button.)Ī USB-C port brings the Kindle in line with other mobile devices from the past few years. The bottom-mounted power button, a remnant from the 2018 model, bothers some folks, but I don't find it prone to accidental presses on the base Paperwhite model. The 17-LED system is much more even than the 4 LEDs on the base-model Kindle. The yellowness can also be tied to a clock, so the screen gets yellower as the night goes on to save your eyes. The new Paperwhites and Oasis have color-changing front lights that can go from blue-white to yellow using two sliders. The whole device still carries an IPX8 rating, so it can survive for an hour of dunking in fresh water or a three-minute dip in seawater. The new Paperwhite steps up from a 6-inch, 300ppi E Ink Carta display to a 6.8-inch panel that retains a 300ppi resolution. At 7.2 ounces, it's 0.8-ounce heavier than the previous model, which I initially thought would annoy me, but doesn't it's still light enough to comfortably hold with one hand for hours. The 2021 Paperwhite is still a smooth, black, matte device, but now measures 6.8 by 4.9 by 0.3 inches (HWD) rather than 6.6 by 4.6 by 0.3 inches. The 2018 Paperwhite design introduced a flat front and a waterproof rating. Left to right: 2021 Paperwhite, 2018 Paperwhite, 2021 Paperwhite Signature The Kindle Oasis has a delightful design with its cool metal frame, lighter weight than the Paperwhite, and physical page-turn buttons (I have one and love it), but it's really expensive for an ebook reader. Those are useful extras, but they won't transform your reading experience. The Paperwhite Signature adds more storage, wireless charging, and an automatically changing front light. Still no good book reader exists IMO.Once you move up from the Paperwhite, though, the additional features become less meaningful. Kindle might sell pretty well but it's no iPod of books. A DVD sized e-book reader about say half the thickness or slightly thicker with great battery life, a headphone jack and a speaker without massive bezels, silly chin and with simple software is what's missing in the e-book reader world. A DVD case is 9" on the diagonal and is about the smallest an e-ink book reader should be. A tiny 6" screen for reading books is a joke, sorry. Would much prefer if they scrapped all of the models and just focused on making one awesome 9" model and tried to bring the prices down through economies of scale, selling just a single model in black and white and one storage size: we're talking books.įurther, another thing Kindle needs is a headphone jack and a built-in speaker like Kindle 3 had. What Kindles have going for them mostly is price, but that really in my mind only applies to the cheapest model. I'd also like to see a slightly thicker reader with longer battery life. If Apple made a 9" e-ink reader (kindles are too small) that looked like the page of a book "Apple Page" or "Apple Book" and had some innovative features such as page numbers (ffs) and the ability to squeeze either side of the page to turn the page I'd honestly buy one. I honestly would like if Apple made an e-ink reader because Amazon isn't great at hardware or software, at least when it comes to Kindle. I do wish Apple would add e-ink tech to iPads but that’s probably hard to engineer.
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