Kindle Paperwhite Review (2024): The E-Reader to Get

I don’t have galore regrets, but buying the basal Kindle a fewer years agone is 1 of them. Ironically, I hadn't done overmuch probe earlier purchasing it. I wanted to get backmost into speechmaking and didn't privation to walk much—I was struggling to decorativeness hard copies and thought an ebook reader would lick the problem. I marched onto Amazon and bought myself the basic Kindle from 2019.

Between the debased surface resolution, dilatory performance, and abbreviated artillery life, the frustrating acquisition kept maine from utilizing it arsenic overmuch arsenic I wanted to. I should've bought the Kindle Paperwhite instead, adjacent if it was marginally much expensive—buy once, outcry once, right? I was convinced that the higher-quality surface and fancy lighting features would marque it much enjoyable. Alas, I disquieted a Paperwhite would enactment dormant and dusty successful a drawer, conscionable similar my Kindle, truthful I didn't bargain it.

And yet, a Paperwhite ended up successful my thigh a fewer years later. Amazon conscionable announced a caller version—the Paperwhite and the Paperwhite Signature Edition—which are thinner and faster and person longer artillery life. I tested the latter, which has a fewer other perks specified arsenic wireless charging and 32 gigabytes of retention (for an other cost). After weeks of use, it's casual to recognize wherefore this is Amazon's most beloved Kindle—it's Paperwhite oregon bust.

Better, Faster, Stronger

Coming from a smaller Kindle, I was disquieted that the Paperwhite would consciousness excessively unwieldy, particularly present that it's somewhat thinner than its predecessor (7.8 mm versus 8.1 mm) but heavier. It's inactive casual to clasp one-handed, but I sometimes consciousness my limb cramp during longer speechmaking seasons—I rapidly recognize wherefore truthful galore radical connect a PopSocket to their Paperwhite.

The show is present 7 inches (up from 6.8) acknowledgment to slimmer bezels astir the screen. It besides has the highest opposition ratio of immoderate Kindle, which much oregon little allows substance and images to look sharper connected the screen. While some changes are nice, these differences are incremental implicit the 2021 Paperwhite (8/10, WIRED Recommends), and no, you bash not request to upgrade if you person that model.