Kindle Paperwhite

Kindle Paperwhite has a screen that feels like looking at paper, no glare, no refresh flicker. Backlight is adjustable enough that reading at midnight in bed doesn't feel like staring at a phone. I want the newest 1 because the screen is flush with the bezel now, which makes swiping pages feel smoother. Warm light setting shifts from blue-white to amber as it gets later, mimicking the color of a reading lamp. At less than most paperbacks in weight and holding thousands of books, it matters when I am traveling and don't want to choose between 3 novels I am in the middle of. Tactile experience of holding it is different from a phone, the soft-touch back has a slight grip and the size makes 1-handed reading comfortable. My other hand stays free for coffee or the subway pole. Amazon built the Kindle around the idea that the device should disappear and leave only the text. Paperwhite is the version where they finally achieved that because the hardware is simple enough that after 5 minutes of reading you forget you are holding anything at all. Dictionary lookup works by long-pressing a word and has actually expanded my vocabulary unlike paper books did because I used to skip unfamiliar words rather than get up and find a dictionary. Storage fills up slowly and the battery lasts weeks, not hours, which changes the relationship from something you charge daily to something you occasionally plug in. Warm amber light is the feature that made me want to upgrade from the basic Kindle because reading in cool blue light before sleep was keeping me awake longer than the book deserved.