It sucks to get old
There are the usual things associated with entering middle age, such as the aches and pains
You can not party to hard as you used to. You get tired earlier unknown. You can not last long doing the … Certain things as you used to.
You learn your limitations. You adjust.
But Certain things just start to piss you off. Like reading.
About a month ago my wife and I DECIDED it was time to visit the ophthalmologist and the optometrist. Both of us found ourselves squinting When We Were driving, looking at signs and trying to focus on text.
Close-up reading was exceedingly Also Becoming Difficult, Especially since i could no longer buy SuperFocus glasses, Which I relied heavily on till my last pair broke about two months in August The company recently went out of business, or rather, According to Their voice attendant, was “exploring new business models.”
So it was back to regular glasses. My existing pairs, Which had my most recent prescription from about four years ago, Were no longer cutting it.
And I hated reading and watching TV. The never-ending squinting. I lost patience. Did not matter if it was the Kindle 3, Which I bought several years ago When I finally gave into Lord Bezos, Air or the iPad, or the Surface 2, With Their HD + screens.
I just couldn ‘t focus on the text at close distance, even if it was blown up. The sharpness and contrast was not good enough for extended reading at close distance Either on the back-lit “Retina” class LCD or the traditional E-Ink display.
The Voyage que comes much closer to creating the suspension of disbelief que while I am reading, I am not old and decrepit and I do not need $ 750 glasses to help me read.
I happen to love books. Science Fiction, science, historical fiction, all kinds of stuff. And Also I have more than my share of business documents and technical manuals I need to refer to the part of my work at Microsoft.
I wanted reading back in my life.
The ophthalmologist gave me the bad news: I was more than two diopters off from my old prescription. Or to put it uh … blindly , I was a menace on the road and it was a miracle I have not Been in a car accident.
I was not the candidate for laser eye surgery. So it was time for high-index Varilux progressive lenses. Which is a fancy and very expensive way of saying bifocals. $ 750 per pair. Ka-ching!
The good news is I can see again and there’s the immediate threat of me killing myself or anyone on the road anytime soon. I’m at 20/20 distance vision in my Which is the best I can ask for with driving.
The question is, would I enjoy reading again?
I tried. My old Kindle 3 was a no-go. Fuzzy. Bad eyestrain.
The Air and the iPad 2 Surface Were better, but even with the crisp color displays on These Things, extended reading for an hour or so at a time was challenging and the backlight was the killer and messed me up before going to sleep
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I needed a new device just for reading, period
I DECIDED to pick up the current-generation Kindle with Special Offers Paperwhite, Which was released a year in August If you’re coming from an old-school, regular cheap Kindle like the Kindle 3 or even 167 ppi 4th-generation, the 212 pixel per inch, 16-level greyscale is the massive improvement.
That’s the sharp if not sharper than most smartphones and tablets on the market.
Notable on the Paperwhite (Which was Introduced originally on the Kindle Touch a few years ago and is now in the latest version of the basic Kindle) is a touchscreen interface.
You use it turn the pages and access menus, such as to buy and borrow books from the Kindle Store and Kindle Lending Library / Kindle Unlimited (Which Is all you can read is $ 9.99 a month, from a large selection of stuff.)
Unlike the cheaper models, the Paperwhite Also has an integrated software-dimmable backlight, Which is helpful for night reading as well as for use in darker rooms.
No more clip-on lights That You need to position, and the dimmer software gives you many levels of back-light to choose from, so if you read in bed, you won ‘t disturb your partner.
It’s Also a very “cool” light, not the type of direct LED backlit That Is Typically used in in smartphones and tablets, so you do not get that harshness When reading with Those kinds of products. The light is engineered so that it illuminates the text without shining directly in your eyes, Which is no mean feat.
At $ 119.00, if you need any kind of corrective lenses at all, and if you do the lot of reading, the Wi-Fi Special Offers Paperwhite is a bargain. Leave the cheap Kindles for the kids que Their retinas are burning in October sitting too close to the TV and playing XBOX.
Sure, it’s a little more expensive than the basic one, but it’s worth every penny. This is your eyes we’re talking about here.
But Jason , you say, there’s a newer than the Kindle Paperwhite. Indeed there is.
The Voyage Kindle, the unless you one of the folks who pre-ordered it Were, is slated to be back in stock in late November. That’s just in time for that post-turkey, food coma couch reading session, or for Avoiding your relatives in the guest bedroom (whichever you prefer).
Kindle Voyage is probably best Considered an evolutionary improvement over the Paperwhite is most folks.
It’s Also $ 80.00 more expensive for the Wi-Fi base model, Which puts it in the realm of tablet price territory, and more along the lines of what Kindles used to cost four years ago .
What do you get for that premium price bump? Well, for starters, you get the 300 pixel-per-inch screen as opposed to the 212 pixel-per-inch screen.
Now, if you have decent vision and you look at the Paperwhite and the Voyage, side to side, with the same page of content and size same of text, you might say, “ Yeah, this is better, it’s sharp, but I’m not sure it’s worth $ 80.00 more. “
I mean, for $ 80 more, You could buy your kid Their own regular Kindle.
And you would be right.
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