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It's not the latest (the Voyage just came out), but I picked it up on Thanksgiving at Amazon for $99, which is less than 1/2 what the Voyage costs. Reviewers pretty much all say that the Paperwhite is definitely more bang for the buck.
Received it last night, called last night and had them switch my New York Times Blog ($1.99/month) subscription from my old Kindle Keyboard to the Paperwhite and it immediately downloaded. Unfortunately, for some undetermined reason, today's version will not download by wifi. I downloaded it to my computer and copied that to the Kindle via USB, a workaround I would not want to have to do on a regular basis. Meantime, I'm told they will work on the issue and get back to me. I actually spent around 2.5 hours on the phone with various people in Kindle support today working on that issue, really nuts. Amazon is kind of like AT&T or maybe Microsoft in being a huge organization where the left hand just doesn't know what the right hand is doing. However, the CSR's are by and large relatively quite friendly compared to those other organizations, I'd have to say, based on my experiences (some time ago). Lot's of cool looking stuff online and in the firmware, but it doesn't necessarily do what you'd expect it to.
I looked at the phone's information page (in settings, etc.) and it says that the "Space Available" is 3,138 MB free. I don't see how that can be, the spec pages I've seen for the Paperwhite (original and newer version) say 2GB internal memory (my old Kindle Keyboard has 4GB). Don't know what's up with that.
I love the readability of this thing, it absolutely blows my Kindle Keyboard out of the water. I could read on the Kindle Keyboard, but it was much less than ideal. I was still buying mostly old fashioned books. Pretty much the only thing I was doing with my first Kindle was reading the New York Times Blog, which updates with new stories daily. Sometimes I wouldn't check it for weeks, other times almost daily. This Paperwhite, now, I think is a game changer. I might start springing for Kindle versions of books instead or ordering actual printed paper versions! Yup. The only thing I could use my Kindle Keyboard for at this point is its ability to deal with audio books and read books back to me, either over the speaker or out headphones. It's not something I've been doing, but it's a potential use.
Received it last night, called last night and had them switch my New York Times Blog ($1.99/month) subscription from my old Kindle Keyboard to the Paperwhite and it immediately downloaded. Unfortunately, for some undetermined reason, today's version will not download by wifi. I downloaded it to my computer and copied that to the Kindle via USB, a workaround I would not want to have to do on a regular basis. Meantime, I'm told they will work on the issue and get back to me. I actually spent around 2.5 hours on the phone with various people in Kindle support today working on that issue, really nuts. Amazon is kind of like AT&T or maybe Microsoft in being a huge organization where the left hand just doesn't know what the right hand is doing. However, the CSR's are by and large relatively quite friendly compared to those other organizations, I'd have to say, based on my experiences (some time ago). Lot's of cool looking stuff online and in the firmware, but it doesn't necessarily do what you'd expect it to.
I looked at the phone's information page (in settings, etc.) and it says that the "Space Available" is 3,138 MB free. I don't see how that can be, the spec pages I've seen for the Paperwhite (original and newer version) say 2GB internal memory (my old Kindle Keyboard has 4GB). Don't know what's up with that.
I love the readability of this thing, it absolutely blows my Kindle Keyboard out of the water. I could read on the Kindle Keyboard, but it was much less than ideal. I was still buying mostly old fashioned books. Pretty much the only thing I was doing with my first Kindle was reading the New York Times Blog, which updates with new stories daily. Sometimes I wouldn't check it for weeks, other times almost daily. This Paperwhite, now, I think is a game changer. I might start springing for Kindle versions of books instead or ordering actual printed paper versions! Yup. The only thing I could use my Kindle Keyboard for at this point is its ability to deal with audio books and read books back to me, either over the speaker or out headphones. It's not something I've been doing, but it's a potential use.
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