Kindle Paperwhite WiFi e-Reader

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What Is It

An e-ink reader with a frontlight and a high-res capitative touchscreen.

Who Is It For

Anyone who wants an ereader with a great screen. Which is basically anyone who wants an ereader.

Design

Paperwhite ditches the chip-prone silver paint of the previous Kindle generation for a black finish, a soft-touch-painted back panel, and its new capacitive touch sensor lets it slim down, with a much thinner bezel. Its the stealth bomber version of the Kindle you know.

Using It

You know how ereaders work. This one just works better. Starting with the standout feature: The frontlight is an easy-on-the-eyes light that illuminates the screen without stressing your eyes. You can slide the brightness up or down, and read in bed at night or anywhere else that’s dimly lit without lighting up the whole room. The Paperwhite is light is well distributed, and super easy to control because of its capacitive touch sensor.

The change to capacitive touch from IR is a bigger deal than it sounds. Interacting with the Kindle for stuff other than turning a page is actually pleasant now, not clunky and slow. You especially feel the difference when you are changing settings, like Wi-Fi, or using the onscreen keyboard.

Aside from that glorious light, text on the new screen is sharper, in a way that is instantly noticeable. Everything is tack-sharp. The PPI boost, from 169 to 212, makes a huge difference in how small you can make the font with it still being readable. On Finding stuff to read is as easy as ever. Anything you have ever bought from the Amazon store is available in the Cloud tab of your library. You can o buy a book online and send it directly to your Kindle, where it will show up almost immediately, or browse on the Kindle itself (another chance to be thankful for that capacitive touch display).