![]() It's not the biggest issue - it took two taps to get to the brightness menu, and some fiddling to get it right - but I missed the Oasis, which knew when I'd entered a dark room and compensated without prompting. Contrast that with the slow, sluggish performance of the Nook GlowLight 3, and you'll understand why the word "Nook" became an afterthought in the e-reader market.Īs I turned the lights off in my bedroom, getting ready to read a chapter of Jennifer Egan's Manhattan Beach before I went to sleep, I noticed the Paperwhite's lack of automatically adjusting backlighting. Pages refresh and searches load with a prompt speed that's limited only by the E-ink itself. Overall, the Paperwhite is still a joy to use. Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (2018) review: User experience The e-reader’s grayscale display is a bit unfriendly to color publications, though. The Paperwhite is even suitable for reading graphic novels, I found as I paged through Kieron Gillen's The Wicked and The Divine. Even in direct sunlight the page was easy to read. Reading Andrew Sean Greer's novel Less in Bryant Park one sunny morning, I noted the Paperwhite's super-legible display. ![]() It's a small thing, and not that important, but it's an area in which E-ink displays can still advance. This gap is also there on the Kindle Oasis, and it's the kind of thing that many smartphones used to have. ![]() The Paperwhite 2015 (left) and Paperwhite 2018 (right) both feature the same great display.Īs I devoured a particularly tense section of Stephen King's The Outsider on the Paperwhite, I noticed a small gap between the screen and the bezel. The Paperwhite's slightly curved backside is also much simpler than the Oasis', which offers a bump meant to be cradled with your gripping fingers. Unlike the Paperwhite, the Oasis is asymmetrical, with one thin bezel on one side, and clickable buttons and a wider bezel on the other side. Then I remembered why I prefer the Oasis' design over the Paperwhite's. Accidental page turns weren't an issue during my testing, though I do understand the reaction. She said she likes the chunky bezel because it's a good place to rest her fingers, but this new model's screen puts your fingers too close to the touch screen. Handing the new Paperwhite to my mom, who doesn't spend more than a couple of hours away from her own Paperwhite, I got a surprising reaction. This looks a lot nicer than the previous Paperwhites, which framed the screen with a chunky, shadow box-like bezel that stood out. The Paperwhite's screen is finally flush with the bezel around it. the Paperwhite's 6-inch screen) is still a point in its favor, but the Paperwhite has caught up in one key way. The Oasis's larger size (a 7-inch display vs. Paperwhite 2015 (left), Paperwhite 2018 (center), Oasis (right) Its soft-touch matte-black case looks and feels just like its predecessor's, though the Kindle logo is now a light gray that contrasts with the case instead of a matching black. The new Paperwhite is nearly identical to the previous model. Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (2018) review: Design Amazon doesn't take the user's reading habits into consideration, and just spams you with popular novels. Of all these upgrades, the only one I'd consider is spending $20/£10 to remove the Special Offers(aka ads) from Amazon for other books. LTE connectivity with free cellular connections (for when you want a book, but you're away from Wi-Fi) costs an extra $70/£70, but that option is available for only the 32GB model, which makes for a $249/£219 Paperwhite. Want four times that much, so you never ever have to think twice about downloading all the audiobooks and graphic novels you want? A 32 GB Paperwhite costs $30/£30 extra, at $159/£149. The default Paperwhite comes with 8GB of storage: twice as much as the previous Paperwhite packed. Paperwhite 2015 with special offers, Paperwhite 2018 without special offers
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