Kindle Paperwhite

Wednesday, June 17th, 2015

Kindle PaperwhiteThe new Kindle Paperwhite, announced today, has a 300 ppi display. Should I finally get one?

Comments

  1. Max says:

    Obviously impossible to say without knowing more. Do you currently own a Kindle? If so, which? I’m not going to bother picking up the newest model, because I got the newest model last time and remain extremely satisfied with it. But if you either don’t own a Kindle or have an extremely outdated one, then picking up the latest one might be worthwhile. Just depends.

  2. R.S. says:

    I wouldn’t. I went through five of the previous version. The screen is incredibly delicate. Simply being in my pocket with my wallet was enough to kill several of them. One drop from a bedside table killed another.

    I switched to the Kindle Fire, which is basically a cheap smartphone without the phone. That one, carried the same way, has lasted a year now with only minor software glitches. (It reset itself once, required me to download all the books again.)

    But, the Kindle Fire has smartphone problems: needs charging daily, the screen is legible in sunlight, barely.

  3. Isegoria says:

    I have a hand-me-down first-generation Kindle. I find the screen-refresh too slow and the contrast too low. I find the iPad Kindle app adequate, not awesome.

  4. Jacob G. says:

    I have the earlier version of the Paperwhite. Refresh rates are better; contrast is much better.

    The problem I have with it is the reflective screen surface which provides uniform lighting is easily scratched and once scratched it creates glowing spots and shadows on the screen. That light can be turned down but not off. That light is blue-white so it will disrupt melatonin — just not as much as a regular screen.

  5. Isegoria says:

    The “cool” white light that you can’t turn off is, well, a turn-off, but 300-ppi e-ink sounds great.

  6. Bob Sykes says:

    Get an iPad. It has better resolution and depiction of the page, much easier screen navigation, and it can run any ebook format including Kindle and Nook. You do need a special app for each format. I have six. And you cannot download other formats from Apple’s store.

    The iPad also provides all sorts of other apps like iWork, Safari, Mail, which are useful, and it supports wifi and 3 and 4G connections.

    If you hate Apple (some do), get another tablet.

  7. Dan Kurt says:

    Here is a question: which edition of Game of Thrones is better? The KIndle edition or the iBooks edition. I am up to book 4 and noted in the samples that the iBooks’ maps are clearer than the Kindle’s ones. But are there extra features that one will get with either edition that clearly makes the choice of one over the other rational. Of course I am using an iPad with a retina display.

    For what it is worth, I would wait for the next generation iPad in the Fall because it will come with a next generation CPU that will permit more complex computing to be performed. Watch the video of the announcement at Apple’s web site, the one on the recent Developer’s Conference.

  8. Devalier says:

    I’ve switched to an iPad for all my reading, from the Kindle Paperwhite. This was mainly because a lot of non-fiction has a lot of filler, so the iPad’s instant refresh rate makes it a lot easier to skim. Also I read a lot of PDF books, which don’t work well at all on the Kindle.

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