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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 August 2023
This kindle was ordered for a relative who is not at all tech savvy. I’ve got it for a few days to set it up for her and also see how it works so I can explain it and answer any questions she may have when I hand it over. I jumped away from my old 2012 button version kindle to a Kobo libra 2 for home reading recently. I reviewed that elsewhere on amazon. I mention it because the list view for my books was, to me at least, worse than my faithful old kindle. The only 2 things that were in any way a downer with the Kobo were how it listed books and its physical size. I primarily read at home, so for the most part the physical buttons and larger screen are perfect, but being larger it does not fit in my jacket pocket like the super small kindle form factor, so it gets carried less. The way it listed books however, that irked me. Instead of a nice simple list showing around 8 or nine books per page with a button press to load the next batch, the Kobo used a list view that included the book cover for every book next to the title. This style of list view limited each page to around 5 books, and for anyone with a lot of books on the device (like me) it made for a less efficient and more annoying user experience. It actually made me miss my old kindle every time I went looking for my next book on the Kobo.
However, that style of list view I disliked so much on the Kobo has returned to haunt me on the 2022 kindle. The new kindle book list is near identical to the Libra apart from the fact that the kindle way of doing it is actually worse than the Kobo as the kindles screen size only allows for 4 books per page on the list. Worse still for the kindle was that because of that small screen, the actual book covers in the list are like a blurry photocopy of a postage stamp. Somebody at the kindle software development team obviously went to the same school as the microsoft teams that think trying to make a working system better by adding visual frippery will make something better, when in actual fact, sometimes a list is way better than the flashier way of doing it. Imagine if your other half gave you a shopping list of 20 items but included a picture of every item on that list but was limited to an A5 size notepad. In black and white, apples, pears, tomatoes, plums etc would all look very similar and serve very little purpose, the same applies here. I went online looking for a way to get the old list view and found a great many more people out there that massively dislike this list style and wanted the old way of doing it, but guess what? you cant have it. This 4 per page BS is the only standard option. For a device designed for reading, amazons push to add graphics where not needed is a definite fail. With a lot of messing about and creating categories you can at least get it to show 6 books per page, but with touch screen controls for browsing, it is still a sub optimal experience. Amazon, if you are listening, give us the simple list option back. It genuinely feels like whoever decided on the current list system was actually someone who doesn’t use an e reader.
So, with the bad out of the way, here is the good. It is smaller my older gen kindle, the screen is sharper and with the screen illumination it can be read at night without a lamp needed. Brightness can be ultra bright or super dim, or completely off if you are in a well lit environment. There is no colour temperature option on this device unlike the paperwhite, but to be fair its a thing that you either love or hate. The Kobo has colour temp but I prefer the simple black and white option for the most part so you are not missing much by not having it here.
Size is a winner. Having used the Kobo as my primary e reader, the kindle looked tiny when it arrived. So much so that as I got a kindle and cover in the same delivery, and the cover being in a transparent packaging, my first thought was that I had bought the wrong cover. I genuinely thought ‘the kindle isn’t going to fit that’. It isn’t a massive difference in reality, it was just that initial surprise.
Setting it up was simple enough, the only issue being that during setup, after inputting the wifi password it said it couldn't connect, but instead of a go back to correct the issue it only gave options to carry on setting up the device. Whatever issue it had with initially connecting was irrelevant though as it connected itself up to wifi in the background while doing the rest of the setup.
Build quality is good enough. It feels somehow cheap and good at the same time. When all is said and done it is a plastic enclosure lacking any bells and whistles, so no textured grippy surface for your fingers, but as it was going straight into a case that doesn’t matter to me. In the short time it was caseless though, I did think it would be all too easy to have it slip out of my hand if I wasn’t careful. But it does feel well put together in a simple flat tablet with no moving parts kind of way. Hard to explain that better beyond saying the design itself is just right. It’s small size makes for an ideal carrying device, though ironically I think some people might find it too small. Try to actually hold one before jumping in and buying it as for me at least, it’s diminutive size was instantly apparent. Though you adapt pretty quick. The bezels are just about perfect for an e reader with just enough to avoid unwanted screen presses.
The power button being on the bottom seems a bit moronic to me. Especially coming from an old model that had it up top and out of the way. I would say that picking a case that stands proud of the button will make accidental presses less of an issue for those who rest their pinky exactly on the button, something I found I did almost immediately. It didn’t turn off, but it could be pressed all too easily if you hold it like I do and maybe jolt your hand as you move to a new position. Unlikely but possible is the best description there. I noticed it seems to wake slower than my old kindle though, so accidentally putting it to sleep would definitely be annoying.
Touch input is good. Not ipad territory by a long chalk, but still, ‘good enough’, you won’t enjoy typing on it. In fact like any e reader I have tried, typing isn’t really a suitable word, it would be better to call it reasonable text input. Put it this way, if I wasn’t using an ipad mini’s touchscreen to type this review and had to use the kindle? The review would be about 20 words long in its entirety. It does feel marginally better than the Kobo, but that is not saying either are actually good at accepting data typed in from their respective keyboard interfaces.
As to the screen touches when reading, the kindle works well. The touch screen options for basics like lighting, text size, dark mode etc, are all far better than the buttons of the old gen and for the most part intuitive. Though I should say, I really missed the page forward/back buttons of the old gen. For the paperwhite I can see why it would be a good thing as there is waterproofing to consider so having physical buttons would likely make things harder to manufacture and still keep an ipx rating. But this entry level kindle is NOT waterproof, so don’t get it wet. That lack of waterproofing means they could have kept those little edge side buttons if they had wanted to and in may ways that would have been the perfect upgrade from old to new gen, but the fact is there are no moving parts beyond the power button on the 2022 kindle. Touches and swipes are smooth enough to not be noticeably lagging, and screen refreshes are definitely faster than the old gen I keep comparing this to. Browsing the book store is ok, not great, just ok. 30 seconds on the ipad looking at the store makes the kindle browsing look dire, but it is an unfair comparison, one being a high refresh colour lcd screen and the other an e ink display. But it is functional on the kindle so any complaint there needs to keep that in mind.
So is it worth buying? Yes is the short answer. It does what it says it will do. Read e books. The small size still appeals to me for out and about reading away from home. But the lack of waterproofing and no ipx rating means that when I do buy a new kindle it will have to be a paperwhite for me. I would always worry about getting caught in the rain with it in my breast pocket. But if you are sure you will never get it wet? Then yes to this all day long. I just wish they would give us the old style book list back.
Smaller, better, brighter, worse. Hows that for a confusing start?
This kindle was ordered for a relative who is not at all tech savvy. I’ve got it for a few days to set it up for her and also see how it works so I can explain it and answer any questions she may have when I hand it over. I jumped away from my old 2012 button version kindle to a Kobo libra 2 for home reading recently. I reviewed that elsewhere on amazon. I mention it because the list view for my books was, to me at least, worse than my faithful old kindle. The only 2 things that were in any way a downer with the Kobo were how it listed books and its physical size. I primarily read at home, so for the most part the physical buttons and larger screen are perfect, but being larger it does not fit in my jacket pocket like the super small kindle form factor, so it gets carried less. The way it listed books however, that irked me. Instead of a nice simple list showing around 8 or nine books per page with a button press to load the next batch, the Kobo used a list view that included the book cover for every book next to the title. This style of list view limited each page to around 5 books, and for anyone with a lot of books on the device (like me) it made for a less efficient and more annoying user experience. It actually made me miss my old kindle every time I went looking for my next book on the Kobo.
However, that style of list view I disliked so much on the Kobo has returned to haunt me on the 2022 kindle. The new kindle book list is near identical to the Libra apart from the fact that the kindle way of doing it is actually worse than the Kobo as the kindles screen size only allows for 4 books per page on the list. Worse still for the kindle was that because of that small screen, the actual book covers in the list are like a blurry photocopy of a postage stamp. Somebody at the kindle software development team obviously went to the same school as the microsoft teams that think trying to make a working system better by adding visual frippery will make something better, when in actual fact, sometimes a list is way better than the flashier way of doing it. Imagine if your other half gave you a shopping list of 20 items but included a picture of every item on that list but was limited to an A5 size notepad. In black and white, apples, pears, tomatoes, plums etc would all look very similar and serve very little purpose, the same applies here. I went online looking for a way to get the old list view and found a great many more people out there that massively dislike this list style and wanted the old way of doing it, but guess what? you cant have it. This 4 per page BS is the only standard option. For a device designed for reading, amazons push to add graphics where not needed is a definite fail. With a lot of messing about and creating categories you can at least get it to show 6 books per page, but with touch screen controls for browsing, it is still a sub optimal experience. Amazon, if you are listening, give us the simple list option back. It genuinely feels like whoever decided on the current list system was actually someone who doesn’t use an e reader.
So, with the bad out of the way, here is the good. It is smaller my older gen kindle, the screen is sharper and with the screen illumination it can be read at night without a lamp needed. Brightness can be ultra bright or super dim, or completely off if you are in a well lit environment. There is no colour temperature option on this device unlike the paperwhite, but to be fair its a thing that you either love or hate. The Kobo has colour temp but I prefer the simple black and white option for the most part so you are not missing much by not having it here.
Size is a winner. Having used the Kobo as my primary e reader, the kindle looked tiny when it arrived. So much so that as I got a kindle and cover in the same delivery, and the cover being in a transparent packaging, my first thought was that I had bought the wrong cover. I genuinely thought ‘the kindle isn’t going to fit that’. It isn’t a massive difference in reality, it was just that initial surprise.
Setting it up was simple enough, the only issue being that during setup, after inputting the wifi password it said it couldn't connect, but instead of a go back to correct the issue it only gave options to carry on setting up the device. Whatever issue it had with initially connecting was irrelevant though as it connected itself up to wifi in the background while doing the rest of the setup.
Build quality is good enough. It feels somehow cheap and good at the same time. When all is said and done it is a plastic enclosure lacking any bells and whistles, so no textured grippy surface for your fingers, but as it was going straight into a case that doesn’t matter to me. In the short time it was caseless though, I did think it would be all too easy to have it slip out of my hand if I wasn’t careful. But it does feel well put together in a simple flat tablet with no moving parts kind of way. Hard to explain that better beyond saying the design itself is just right. It’s small size makes for an ideal carrying device, though ironically I think some people might find it too small. Try to actually hold one before jumping in and buying it as for me at least, it’s diminutive size was instantly apparent. Though you adapt pretty quick. The bezels are just about perfect for an e reader with just enough to avoid unwanted screen presses.
The power button being on the bottom seems a bit moronic to me. Especially coming from an old model that had it up top and out of the way. I would say that picking a case that stands proud of the button will make accidental presses less of an issue for those who rest their pinky exactly on the button, something I found I did almost immediately. It didn’t turn off, but it could be pressed all too easily if you hold it like I do and maybe jolt your hand as you move to a new position. Unlikely but possible is the best description there. I noticed it seems to wake slower than my old kindle though, so accidentally putting it to sleep would definitely be annoying.
Touch input is good. Not ipad territory by a long chalk, but still, ‘good enough’, you won’t enjoy typing on it. In fact like any e reader I have tried, typing isn’t really a suitable word, it would be better to call it reasonable text input. Put it this way, if I wasn’t using an ipad mini’s touchscreen to type this review and had to use the kindle? The review would be about 20 words long in its entirety. It does feel marginally better than the Kobo, but that is not saying either are actually good at accepting data typed in from their respective keyboard interfaces.
As to the screen touches when reading, the kindle works well. The touch screen options for basics like lighting, text size, dark mode etc, are all far better than the buttons of the old gen and for the most part intuitive. Though I should say, I really missed the page forward/back buttons of the old gen. For the paperwhite I can see why it would be a good thing as there is waterproofing to consider so having physical buttons would likely make things harder to manufacture and still keep an ipx rating. But this entry level kindle is NOT waterproof, so don’t get it wet. That lack of waterproofing means they could have kept those little edge side buttons if they had wanted to and in may ways that would have been the perfect upgrade from old to new gen, but the fact is there are no moving parts beyond the power button on the 2022 kindle. Touches and swipes are smooth enough to not be noticeably lagging, and screen refreshes are definitely faster than the old gen I keep comparing this to. Browsing the book store is ok, not great, just ok. 30 seconds on the ipad looking at the store makes the kindle browsing look dire, but it is an unfair comparison, one being a high refresh colour lcd screen and the other an e ink display. But it is functional on the kindle so any complaint there needs to keep that in mind.
So is it worth buying? Yes is the short answer. It does what it says it will do. Read e books. The small size still appeals to me for out and about reading away from home. But the lack of waterproofing and no ipx rating means that when I do buy a new kindle it will have to be a paperwhite for me. I would always worry about getting caught in the rain with it in my breast pocket. But if you are sure you will never get it wet? Then yes to this all day long. I just wish they would give us the old style book list back.
This kindle was ordered for a relative who is not at all tech savvy. I’ve got it for a few days to set it up for her and also see how it works so I can explain it and answer any questions she may have when I hand it over. I jumped away from my old 2012 button version kindle to a Kobo libra 2 for home reading recently. I reviewed that elsewhere on amazon. I mention it because the list view for my books was, to me at least, worse than my faithful old kindle. The only 2 things that were in any way a downer with the Kobo were how it listed books and its physical size. I primarily read at home, so for the most part the physical buttons and larger screen are perfect, but being larger it does not fit in my jacket pocket like the super small kindle form factor, so it gets carried less. The way it listed books however, that irked me. Instead of a nice simple list showing around 8 or nine books per page with a button press to load the next batch, the Kobo used a list view that included the book cover for every book next to the title. This style of list view limited each page to around 5 books, and for anyone with a lot of books on the device (like me) it made for a less efficient and more annoying user experience. It actually made me miss my old kindle every time I went looking for my next book on the Kobo.
However, that style of list view I disliked so much on the Kobo has returned to haunt me on the 2022 kindle. The new kindle book list is near identical to the Libra apart from the fact that the kindle way of doing it is actually worse than the Kobo as the kindles screen size only allows for 4 books per page on the list. Worse still for the kindle was that because of that small screen, the actual book covers in the list are like a blurry photocopy of a postage stamp. Somebody at the kindle software development team obviously went to the same school as the microsoft teams that think trying to make a working system better by adding visual frippery will make something better, when in actual fact, sometimes a list is way better than the flashier way of doing it. Imagine if your other half gave you a shopping list of 20 items but included a picture of every item on that list but was limited to an A5 size notepad. In black and white, apples, pears, tomatoes, plums etc would all look very similar and serve very little purpose, the same applies here. I went online looking for a way to get the old list view and found a great many more people out there that massively dislike this list style and wanted the old way of doing it, but guess what? you cant have it. This 4 per page BS is the only standard option. For a device designed for reading, amazons push to add graphics where not needed is a definite fail. With a lot of messing about and creating categories you can at least get it to show 6 books per page, but with touch screen controls for browsing, it is still a sub optimal experience. Amazon, if you are listening, give us the simple list option back. It genuinely feels like whoever decided on the current list system was actually someone who doesn’t use an e reader.
So, with the bad out of the way, here is the good. It is smaller my older gen kindle, the screen is sharper and with the screen illumination it can be read at night without a lamp needed. Brightness can be ultra bright or super dim, or completely off if you are in a well lit environment. There is no colour temperature option on this device unlike the paperwhite, but to be fair its a thing that you either love or hate. The Kobo has colour temp but I prefer the simple black and white option for the most part so you are not missing much by not having it here.
Size is a winner. Having used the Kobo as my primary e reader, the kindle looked tiny when it arrived. So much so that as I got a kindle and cover in the same delivery, and the cover being in a transparent packaging, my first thought was that I had bought the wrong cover. I genuinely thought ‘the kindle isn’t going to fit that’. It isn’t a massive difference in reality, it was just that initial surprise.
Setting it up was simple enough, the only issue being that during setup, after inputting the wifi password it said it couldn't connect, but instead of a go back to correct the issue it only gave options to carry on setting up the device. Whatever issue it had with initially connecting was irrelevant though as it connected itself up to wifi in the background while doing the rest of the setup.
Build quality is good enough. It feels somehow cheap and good at the same time. When all is said and done it is a plastic enclosure lacking any bells and whistles, so no textured grippy surface for your fingers, but as it was going straight into a case that doesn’t matter to me. In the short time it was caseless though, I did think it would be all too easy to have it slip out of my hand if I wasn’t careful. But it does feel well put together in a simple flat tablet with no moving parts kind of way. Hard to explain that better beyond saying the design itself is just right. It’s small size makes for an ideal carrying device, though ironically I think some people might find it too small. Try to actually hold one before jumping in and buying it as for me at least, it’s diminutive size was instantly apparent. Though you adapt pretty quick. The bezels are just about perfect for an e reader with just enough to avoid unwanted screen presses.
The power button being on the bottom seems a bit moronic to me. Especially coming from an old model that had it up top and out of the way. I would say that picking a case that stands proud of the button will make accidental presses less of an issue for those who rest their pinky exactly on the button, something I found I did almost immediately. It didn’t turn off, but it could be pressed all too easily if you hold it like I do and maybe jolt your hand as you move to a new position. Unlikely but possible is the best description there. I noticed it seems to wake slower than my old kindle though, so accidentally putting it to sleep would definitely be annoying.
Touch input is good. Not ipad territory by a long chalk, but still, ‘good enough’, you won’t enjoy typing on it. In fact like any e reader I have tried, typing isn’t really a suitable word, it would be better to call it reasonable text input. Put it this way, if I wasn’t using an ipad mini’s touchscreen to type this review and had to use the kindle? The review would be about 20 words long in its entirety. It does feel marginally better than the Kobo, but that is not saying either are actually good at accepting data typed in from their respective keyboard interfaces.
As to the screen touches when reading, the kindle works well. The touch screen options for basics like lighting, text size, dark mode etc, are all far better than the buttons of the old gen and for the most part intuitive. Though I should say, I really missed the page forward/back buttons of the old gen. For the paperwhite I can see why it would be a good thing as there is waterproofing to consider so having physical buttons would likely make things harder to manufacture and still keep an ipx rating. But this entry level kindle is NOT waterproof, so don’t get it wet. That lack of waterproofing means they could have kept those little edge side buttons if they had wanted to and in may ways that would have been the perfect upgrade from old to new gen, but the fact is there are no moving parts beyond the power button on the 2022 kindle. Touches and swipes are smooth enough to not be noticeably lagging, and screen refreshes are definitely faster than the old gen I keep comparing this to. Browsing the book store is ok, not great, just ok. 30 seconds on the ipad looking at the store makes the kindle browsing look dire, but it is an unfair comparison, one being a high refresh colour lcd screen and the other an e ink display. But it is functional on the kindle so any complaint there needs to keep that in mind.
So is it worth buying? Yes is the short answer. It does what it says it will do. Read e books. The small size still appeals to me for out and about reading away from home. But the lack of waterproofing and no ipx rating means that when I do buy a new kindle it will have to be a paperwhite for me. I would always worry about getting caught in the rain with it in my breast pocket. But if you are sure you will never get it wet? Then yes to this all day long. I just wish they would give us the old style book list back.
3 steps forward, 1 step back. Coming from the 2012 to a 2022 version
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 August 2023
Smaller, better, brighter, worse. Hows that for a confusing start?Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 August 2023
This kindle was ordered for a relative who is not at all tech savvy. I’ve got it for a few days to set it up for her and also see how it works so I can explain it and answer any questions she may have when I hand it over. I jumped away from my old 2012 button version kindle to a Kobo libra 2 for home reading recently. I reviewed that elsewhere on amazon. I mention it because the list view for my books was, to me at least, worse than my faithful old kindle. The only 2 things that were in any way a downer with the Kobo were how it listed books and its physical size. I primarily read at home, so for the most part the physical buttons and larger screen are perfect, but being larger it does not fit in my jacket pocket like the super small kindle form factor, so it gets carried less. The way it listed books however, that irked me. Instead of a nice simple list showing around 8 or nine books per page with a button press to load the next batch, the Kobo used a list view that included the book cover for every book next to the title. This style of list view limited each page to around 5 books, and for anyone with a lot of books on the device (like me) it made for a less efficient and more annoying user experience. It actually made me miss my old kindle every time I went looking for my next book on the Kobo.
However, that style of list view I disliked so much on the Kobo has returned to haunt me on the 2022 kindle. The new kindle book list is near identical to the Libra apart from the fact that the kindle way of doing it is actually worse than the Kobo as the kindles screen size only allows for 4 books per page on the list. Worse still for the kindle was that because of that small screen, the actual book covers in the list are like a blurry photocopy of a postage stamp. Somebody at the kindle software development team obviously went to the same school as the microsoft teams that think trying to make a working system better by adding visual frippery will make something better, when in actual fact, sometimes a list is way better than the flashier way of doing it. Imagine if your other half gave you a shopping list of 20 items but included a picture of every item on that list but was limited to an A5 size notepad. In black and white, apples, pears, tomatoes, plums etc would all look very similar and serve very little purpose, the same applies here. I went online looking for a way to get the old list view and found a great many more people out there that massively dislike this list style and wanted the old way of doing it, but guess what? you cant have it. This 4 per page BS is the only standard option. For a device designed for reading, amazons push to add graphics where not needed is a definite fail. With a lot of messing about and creating categories you can at least get it to show 6 books per page, but with touch screen controls for browsing, it is still a sub optimal experience. Amazon, if you are listening, give us the simple list option back. It genuinely feels like whoever decided on the current list system was actually someone who doesn’t use an e reader.
So, with the bad out of the way, here is the good. It is smaller my older gen kindle, the screen is sharper and with the screen illumination it can be read at night without a lamp needed. Brightness can be ultra bright or super dim, or completely off if you are in a well lit environment. There is no colour temperature option on this device unlike the paperwhite, but to be fair its a thing that you either love or hate. The Kobo has colour temp but I prefer the simple black and white option for the most part so you are not missing much by not having it here.
Size is a winner. Having used the Kobo as my primary e reader, the kindle looked tiny when it arrived. So much so that as I got a kindle and cover in the same delivery, and the cover being in a transparent packaging, my first thought was that I had bought the wrong cover. I genuinely thought ‘the kindle isn’t going to fit that’. It isn’t a massive difference in reality, it was just that initial surprise.
Setting it up was simple enough, the only issue being that during setup, after inputting the wifi password it said it couldn't connect, but instead of a go back to correct the issue it only gave options to carry on setting up the device. Whatever issue it had with initially connecting was irrelevant though as it connected itself up to wifi in the background while doing the rest of the setup.
Build quality is good enough. It feels somehow cheap and good at the same time. When all is said and done it is a plastic enclosure lacking any bells and whistles, so no textured grippy surface for your fingers, but as it was going straight into a case that doesn’t matter to me. In the short time it was caseless though, I did think it would be all too easy to have it slip out of my hand if I wasn’t careful. But it does feel well put together in a simple flat tablet with no moving parts kind of way. Hard to explain that better beyond saying the design itself is just right. It’s small size makes for an ideal carrying device, though ironically I think some people might find it too small. Try to actually hold one before jumping in and buying it as for me at least, it’s diminutive size was instantly apparent. Though you adapt pretty quick. The bezels are just about perfect for an e reader with just enough to avoid unwanted screen presses.
The power button being on the bottom seems a bit moronic to me. Especially coming from an old model that had it up top and out of the way. I would say that picking a case that stands proud of the button will make accidental presses less of an issue for those who rest their pinky exactly on the button, something I found I did almost immediately. It didn’t turn off, but it could be pressed all too easily if you hold it like I do and maybe jolt your hand as you move to a new position. Unlikely but possible is the best description there. I noticed it seems to wake slower than my old kindle though, so accidentally putting it to sleep would definitely be annoying.
Touch input is good. Not ipad territory by a long chalk, but still, ‘good enough’, you won’t enjoy typing on it. In fact like any e reader I have tried, typing isn’t really a suitable word, it would be better to call it reasonable text input. Put it this way, if I wasn’t using an ipad mini’s touchscreen to type this review and had to use the kindle? The review would be about 20 words long in its entirety. It does feel marginally better than the Kobo, but that is not saying either are actually good at accepting data typed in from their respective keyboard interfaces.
As to the screen touches when reading, the kindle works well. The touch screen options for basics like lighting, text size, dark mode etc, are all far better than the buttons of the old gen and for the most part intuitive. Though I should say, I really missed the page forward/back buttons of the old gen. For the paperwhite I can see why it would be a good thing as there is waterproofing to consider so having physical buttons would likely make things harder to manufacture and still keep an ipx rating. But this entry level kindle is NOT waterproof, so don’t get it wet. That lack of waterproofing means they could have kept those little edge side buttons if they had wanted to and in may ways that would have been the perfect upgrade from old to new gen, but the fact is there are no moving parts beyond the power button on the 2022 kindle. Touches and swipes are smooth enough to not be noticeably lagging, and screen refreshes are definitely faster than the old gen I keep comparing this to. Browsing the book store is ok, not great, just ok. 30 seconds on the ipad looking at the store makes the kindle browsing look dire, but it is an unfair comparison, one being a high refresh colour lcd screen and the other an e ink display. But it is functional on the kindle so any complaint there needs to keep that in mind.
So is it worth buying? Yes is the short answer. It does what it says it will do. Read e books. The small size still appeals to me for out and about reading away from home. But the lack of waterproofing and no ipx rating means that when I do buy a new kindle it will have to be a paperwhite for me. I would always worry about getting caught in the rain with it in my breast pocket. But if you are sure you will never get it wet? Then yes to this all day long. I just wish they would give us the old style book list back.
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