#KINDLE PAPERWHITE REVIEW PDF#

#KINDLE PAPERWHITE REVIEW PDF#

You have a long history with ebook readers and have amassed a collection of ebooks in ePub or PDF format.You want an easy way to buy and read ebooks, meaning you’ll be buying books from Amazon Kindle store and reading it on Kindle Paperwhite.You buy it for the platform.Įmbarking on some extreme generalization, if you buy a Kindle, you are one of two people: You don’t buy a Kindle just for the soft touch body and the sharp screen. This allows me to jump directly to one of those books easily, without sorting through other hundred or so ebooks and periodicals. Right now, I have a collection of 4 books I’m currently reading. Basically, you can make a collection of different ebooks and it will stay on top of your reading list. I talk about all of this and a lot more in detail in my post about killer Kindle Paperwhite features.Īnother great feature that I appreciate every time I read a book is the Collections feature. There are some neat sharing features as well, where you can share a highlight to Facebook and Twitter from the book itself. There’s also the built-in vocabulary tool that stores all the definitions you look up, and provides you with flash cards so you can test your memory.

You can edit your shelves and read reviews right from your Kindle. Paperwhite comes with Goodreads built right in.

If you like to read books with your device propped up, this minor design flaw can turn into a major inconvenience. Not only is it hard to reach but it means Kindle won’t stand up straight on its own because the button is always protruding from the bottom. It sits in the bottom of the screen, not dead in the center but a bit to the right. If there’s one fatal flaw in its design, it’s the ill placed power button. Kindle Paperwhite’s bezels are ample and I didn’t find my fingers skipping and ending up on the screen (like the Nook). If you have big hands, you can completely grip the device, end to end, but of course, that’s not really necessary. Kindle Paperwhite is draped by a soft touch body. Thanks to the dullness of the screen, I find myself leaving the display on 6 at all times. In my personal experience, somewhere between 6-10 is the sweet spot, depending on where you are. It’s not an on/off switch, there are 24 levels between them. It might be my weary eyes but the the screen in itself is not that stellar, gravitating more towards a decades old book feel than freshly minted paper.īut the great thing about Paperwhite’s backlit display is that you can control how bright you want to go. It’s a good thing Paperwhite display is backlit, because boy is it dull. ( Robin Hood tip: You can avail the same low price by changing your location to India from the settings from Amazon’s website). When compared to $15-20 asking price for new releases overseas, this seems like the bargain of the century. Prices hover around $2 for local books to $5 for imported talents. Paperback books in India are really cheap. Especially in countries like India (where I live) where Amazon is trying so hard to enter the space, it’s pricing its books on par or lower than the paperback books. You have over 2 million books at your disposal and the prices are really cheap. It’s All About The EcosystemĪ Kindle Paperwhite is just as much about the Kindle ecosystem – if not more – as it is about the hardware. Read on to know all about the new Kindle Paperwhite and my adventures with it. I read my personal collection of ebooks on it, heck I read articles from the web on it. Yes, I gave in but just as I jailbreak my iPhone to add features Cupertino wouldn’t approve of, I’ve found ways to do a lot more with Kindle than what’s advertised. After Apple, Amazon is the only company to successfully trap me in their walled garden. So, it came down to ecosystem, and Nook, with its support for ePub, won. But 2012 was a different time, the playing field was leveled back then, with Nook offering similar hardware at a lower price. So when it comes to ebook readers, I know my stuff. I successfully completed my goal of reading 52 books in 2012 thanks to Nook Simple Touch. Amazon won’t tell us exactly how many units it sells but safe to say, it’s a lot. Kindle is one of the best selling ebook readers available in the market right now.

Kindle paperwhite review