Is it worth your money?Īt $289, however, we’d say that the Paperwhite Signature Edition is worth it, even over the $239 standard Paperwhite. The screen sizes are very close between them, with 6.8 inches on the Paperwhite Signature and 7 inches on the Kindle Oasis. Amazon’s Paperwhite Signature Edition (left) versus the Kindle Oasis (right). There is no audiobook support here, sadly, even if Amazon’s Audible technically supports them. You’ll also miss out on audiobook support, something we saw in the Paperwhite competitor, the Kobo Libra 2, which lets you listen to audiobooks over Bluetooth, but not in Kindle’s equivalent. Whereas most of the web has adapted screen sizes for web surfing, the Kindle hasn’t, and you shouldn’t use it for a web browser. While you’re probably not going to be browsing the web from your Kindle, if you do, the web browser is clunky, the interface weird, and the Google experience just too small to be useful. However Amazon seems to have pulled its Kindle-based web browser out of beta, and we’re not sure it necessarily should have. It pretty much needs to just handle reading material, and the Kindle Paperwhite sure does that. The reality is that an eReader doesn’t need to do anything more than read books, magazines, and comics. Viewing the books and flipping the pages - which is touch all a touch away - was very fast, with more or less zero lag as we used the Kindle. That controller is a little like its sibling in the Kindle Oasis, but it’s not automatic, so you’ll still control how warm the colour of the page is yourself, not through a sensor. With our warm bedside lamp switched on, the Paperwhite adopted a more yellow-y glow, helping our eyes adjust with a warmer colour rather than the harsh blue-tinged white. Much like its competitors from Kobo, this is an eReader to let you get stuck in, and do it in any lighting environment. Read and swipe and read some more, because the point of the Paperwhite is to do just that: read. Those gestures are very much in line with what you can do on phones, too, so if you’re used to using an Android or iPhone, much of what you do on the Kindle Paperwhite should be commonplace.Īnd once you know what to do, it’s really just as simple as, you know, reading. Swipe down from the top to change brightness and warmth, while also switching into dark mode our out of it. Tap the top quarter of the screen to get controls to let you go back to the main menu or change things like font size, though you can also do that by expanding the text size with your fingers, much like you can on a phone or tablet. Grab some of those titles, and the Kindle Paperwhite provides more than enough under the hood to let you read with ease, ditching the buttons and just going with a touchscreen experience to let you read your words. Does it do the job?īooks of other formats will, however, and with Amazon’s online store offering quite a lot, not to mention its unlimited book offering, and random book and comic titles if you happen to subscribe to the Amazon Prime Video service. If you have EPUB files, they won’t run here, sadly. Technically, Amazon’s Paperwhite will also handle other formats, specifically TXT, DOC, and PDF, but it won’t touch the EPUB standard offered on pretty much every reader. Granted, there are more ways to get those these days, because while you can obviously buy books from Amazon, you can also subscribe to Amazon’s all-you-can-read unlimited book buffet service, and if you subscribe to Amazon Prime, you can also find some titles found for free for you to read, as well. Much like all other Kindles, the 2021 Paperwhite model is an eReader, taking in digital books and comics and throwing them on an electronic ink screen.Īs with any Kindle, you’ll need to grab your titles from Amazon’s online book marketplace, because the Kindle is made to support titles purchased solely from its online store. Simply put, if you have a wireless charging pad, you can charge the Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition on said pad, or even switch over to the USB Type C port at the bottom. This is one of those features not even the Kindle Oasis gets, making it a real new feature for Kindle. 6.8 inch Paperwhite Signature Edition (left) versus the previous 6 inch Paperwhite before it (right) What makes the 2021 Kindle Paperwhite a “Signature Edition”?įor instance, while the Kindle Paperwhite costs $239 for an 8GB Paperwhite model, the Paperwhite Signature Edition is $280 in Australia, and bolsters the storage to 32GB, throwing in an auto-adjusting light like its Oasis sibling, while also bundling in one extra thing: wireless charging. Where they differ, however, is what sort of extra features you get.
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