e-book readers faced a very strong resistance when they started to appear. For many they did not make much sense, since pay almost the same value of a physical book and having to acquire the player for a price not so buddy turned away much of the public. Over time, they began to have more and more acceptance as the digital versions of books became more accessible, readers have become more advanced and practicality began to weigh more and more.
Amazon It was one of the great responsible for this change of scenery, one of the first companies to bring a reader e-books commercially interesting. The Kindle has become synonymous with digital player, improving with each generation as much of gadgets: more resolution, more features and more design. Then we have the new Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Paperwhite or edition in 2015, one of the latest models of the company.
Starting with its main selling point, we have improved screen. It keeps the 6-inch Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite original, only now comes with 300 dots per square inch pixel density, enough to improve, and the reading experience. Question already here the need to further increase the pixel density in tablets and smartphones, but here this strategy is a beautiful meaning.
e-book readers serve essentially read-only, so join 300 PPP with E-ink technology supporting up to 16 levels of gray make this experience to be the best as possible. As a comparison, the original Kindle Paperwhite was 212 dpi. The Kindle “normal”, only 167 PPP. Just imagine the E-ink with a resolution almost 4 times to get an idea of the superiority of reading experience this new Kindle Paperwhite.
The screen is basically the same as the Kindle Voyage (aka “the Ferrari of e-book readers Amazon “), but has no automatic brightness control. There is backlit with a very precise control of 20 levels, which places it in a prominent position on the Lev with light Saraiva we reviewed here. The minimum level of Kindle Paperwhite is much softer than the Lev, being more comfortable reading in dark environments (in a dark room before bedtime, for example).
He still barely perceptible in the hands weighing 217 grams in the model with 3G modem (206 grams in Wi-Fi model), and only 9.1 millimeters thick. This is a characteristic of any e-book reader that truly conquers the public, especially for those who have ever tried to read books like Dune or Game of Thrones on the train without the slightest probability of success.
It is more quickly as well. One advantage of monitor market e-book readers is to see how this Question improved over time, since it is a point that usually goes unnoticed. In the first generations of the Kindle, those still came with physical keyboard, the page change was real slow, which hindered the experience of those who read fast, and that was certainly settled here. We did not find the processor specifications, but working well, what does it matter?
The model we received for testing comes with 3G embedded, free and unlimited, to the American model molds. This is a useful feature for several reasons, among them, the search for unknown words settings, including integration with Wikipedia, an appeal beyond those who usually able to read along the way on trains and buses, with up pretty fast, considering it is a 3G network.
More than offering an unlimited and ever online dictionary, support free 3G even more important when we remember that Amazon has the Kindle Unlimited subscription service that offers all the catalog of national and international e-books for £ 19.90. Ie, who signs the service, you can download any book from anywhere, even if a Wi-Fi network is not available.
The battery life basically remained the same over from several days to several weeks. Much depends on the use, varying the amount of hours of reading to the light intensity, but we believe a week is a good estimate for those who usually read a lot and usually does not turn off the light even in bright environments. Like all digital book readers, there is a charger included in the package, just a micro USB cable.
I mean, you can purchase a charger for the Amazon’s own Kindle for £ 79, good value salty and you can dispense without problems, since the Kindle Paperwhite carries with any adapter you have in your home or even in the PC’s USB port, taking about four hours to complete the charge.
A the big “problems” of Kindles in general is the high price of accessories. The charger is so dispensable, but we can not say the same of the protective cover, since e-readers do not deal well with pressure on the screen, and a beautiful a risk put it in the backpack to compete with books, notebook and accessories several. Amazon has a cover up and sexy leather that protects these situations, but it costs $ 119 Ai.
The internal memory has remained the same, with the same 4 GB capacity with no possibility of expansion via microSD card, such as Lev or Kobo. Four gigabytes for e-books is a beautiful space, since they typically have a few hundred KB in size, but it would be nice to add that Amazon slot in the next versions thinking about who has a large collection of e-books, and even even by practicality, since it eliminates the need to skewer it on PC for this.
Another thing that has not changed is that the Kindle Paperwhite 2015 does not yet support the EPUB format, one of the most famous and powerful market. Who want to add their own books to the Kindle will have to convert it to the native format the Kindle (AZW AZW3 w), PDF (not recommended) MOBI, DOC and DOCX or even TXT. In the imaging department we have the support BMP, GIF, PNG and JPEG.
The model of the Kindle Paperwhite we have received, supporting 3G and without advertisements, goes for $ 699, still far from enough Salty R $ 899 Kindle Voyage, but by no means cheap, considering that the Kindle starts at around $ 300 for the most basic model. Worth it? Yes, if you were looking for a top notch player and was not about to pay for Voyage, but not for those looking for a reader for free time.
In favor of it we have the screen lighting, one of best we saw among the Kobo competitors (Library Culture) and Lev (Hail), the best screen and the possibility of signing unlimited books on Kindle Unlimited, which can help save some money for the shopaholics books. On the negative side, we have the accessories too expensive and the price of digital books, which is still very close to the physical books, causing it to be an investment it takes to pay.
Advantages
- The best screen we’ve seen on an e-reader, on a par with Kindle Voyage;
- Soft lighting and needs, ideal for reading at night before bed;.
- Battery life within expectations, considering the lighting
Disadvantages
- It does not support EPUB (nothing whom a program like Calibre not solve, but still);
- too expensive accessories;
- With value for money for those who read a lot, but still expensive.
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