Hands-on with the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (image gallery)

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• How about the display?

  AHA!
  It *does* have "splotches" at the bottom of the screen.
  See last picture.
  Note: I was going to order a PW a few days ago, but reading complaints about the LED splotches/shadows makes me wonder.
  Maybe I should get an old/refurbished unit?
  The new HD sounds great, except for the battery life (it would be for my wife, so price is not an issue). Maybe I should look at an i-something? Although all my wife wants is to read ebooks - or so she thinks ;-)

  

  radu.m

  8 October, 2012 17:39

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  • looks like they need to add 4 more LEDs at the bottom of the screen.

    And that would add more strain to the battery...

    

    i8thecat4

    8 October, 2012 23:09

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  • I'm Biased

    The Kindle Reader app for Android on a Nexus 7 is very nice (Google's e-reader is pretty good, too). If reading in bright light is a requirement, then an E-ink reader is hard to beat, but a Nexus does far, far more than a Kindle, although battery life is only a fraction (about 10 hours) of what you get from an E-ink reader. The downside of this flexibility is distraction; if you're using a Kindle, you can read books, and that's about it; all the different things that can be done with a tablet are a constant distraction.

    

    S_Deemer

    9 October, 2012 00:52

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  • Battery Life?

    I thought you are supposed to get 8 weeks of battery life with the LED left on...?

    

    hforman@...

    10 October, 2012 06:29

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    • Oooops

      I meant "backlight" and not LED. sorry.

      

      hforman@...

      10 October, 2012 06:30

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  • I Double-Checked

    Amazon says the battery life is 8 weeks (not hours) with the backlight left on. That's pretty good, isn't it.

    

    hforman@...

    10 October, 2012 06:33

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• Misread headline

  I swear when I first looked at the headline of the story I saw "Hands-on with the Amazon Kindle Paperweight".

  

  droopy1@...

  8 October, 2012 20:44

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  • I wrote that several times

    Funny, I wrote Paperweight several times while putting together my post :)

    

    palmsolo (aka Matthew Miller)

    8 October, 2012 21:06

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  • I read it too....

    I was thinking, Wow.. That thing must really suck... LOL

    

    i8thecat4

    8 October, 2012 23:10

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• Hmm....

  The only problem, and for me it's a deal breaker, is that it doesn't do text to speech or play AudioBooks.

  

  cmwade1977

  8 October, 2012 22:10

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• Is the off switch still a problem?

  On the previous Kindle Touch, the off switch was a huge frustration. When I'd prop up the Kindle on a table in reading position, the weight of the reader would toggle the off switch to off. %@#$^&$(^^&$&!!
  
  Hope they corrected that with this version; it'd be easy to either recess the switch, or add a box around it to protect it from accidental toggling.

  

  gary.gooch@...

  9 October, 2012 04:53

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