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(Pocket-lint) - There's thing similar heading disconnected connected a vacation without having to measurement your luggage down with piles of books. Now, though, there's besides a batch to beryllium said for being capable to entree astir limitless numbers of books without having to spell to a store to bargain more. The Kindle scholar is 1 of the astir fashionable choices for ebook reading, letting you work your favourite books connected a integer device, without the drawbacks that travel with utilizing a tablet oregon smartphone.
Not lone is the Kindle powerfulness efficient, but it's besides well-connected, meaning you tin easy download caller books. It's besides incredibly casual to usage with seamless integration with your Amazon account. The champion prices are usually disposable connected days similar Prime Day oregon Black Friday, but determination are regular discounts passim the year.
The existent determination is which exemplary you should buy. There are presently 7 models of Kindle offered by Amazon: the caller Kindle Paperwhite, Paperwhite Kids and Paperwhite Signature Edition, the Kindle with beforehand light, aged Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Kids Edition and Kindle Oasis. Here's however they interruption down.
Amazon's 2021 Kindle Paperwhite family
In 2021, Amazon announced a caller household of devices, comprised of the Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Paperwhite Kids and the Kindle Paperwhite Signature. These devices are presently connected pre-order, truthful we're presenting them for your information alongside existing Kindle models.
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Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (2021)
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- 174 x 125 x 8.1mm, 205g
- 6.8in display, 300ppi
- 8GB, Wi-Fi
- IPX8 waterproofing
Amazon's caller Kindle Paperwhite, refreshed successful 2021, makes immoderate important changes implicit the older model. The bezels person been reduced somewhat but there's present a larger 6.8-inch display, larger than different Kindles - but the Oasis astatine 7 inches.
This exemplary is really a small wider and taller than the 2018 exemplary it replaces, and heavier astatine 205g. There's 8GB of retention and it's constricted to Wi-Fi connectivity lone - there's nary enactment for cellular connectivity.
As previously, there's a front-lighting strategy truthful you tin work successful the dark, but you tin besides set the colour somesthesia of this, arsenic you tin successful the Kindle Oasis (2019).
There's present a USB-C larboard for charging, with the artillery said to past for up to 10 weeks - that's 4 weeks longer than the older Paperwhite. It is waterproof with an IPX8 rating.
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Amazon Kindle Paperwhite for Kids
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- 174 x 125 x 8.1mm, 205g
- 6.8in display, 300ppi
- 8GB, Wi-Fi
- IPX8 waterproofing
- Case, Amazon Kids+ and 2-year guarantee
The Kindle Paperwhite Kids is the aforesaid exemplary arsenic the Kindle Paperwhite (2021), truthful has precisely the aforesaid features arsenic the exemplary supra - but it comes successful a bundle designed for kids.
That includes a screen to support it protected, a subsciption to Kindle Kids+ and a 2-year guarantee, truthful if your kids interruption it, Amazon volition regenerate it.
The champion happening is that erstwhile your kids outgrow the kids content, they tin usage the Kindle arsenic a mean big Kindle.
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Amazon Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition
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- 174 x 125 x 8.1mm, 207g
- 6.8in display, 300ppi
- 8GB, Wi-Fi
- IPX8 waterproofing
The Paperwhite Signature Edition is based connected the 2021 Kindle Paperwhite, but makes a fewer changes to marque it somewhat much premium.
While it's the aforesaid lawsuit and aforesaid plan from the exterior, it offers 32GB of storage, 4x that implicit the modular Kindle Paperwhite. It besides offers an auto-adjusting beforehand airy to suit the speechmaking conditions you're in.
There's besides wireless charging, with a Wireless Charging Dock designed specifically for this exemplary (an optional extra), truthful you don't person to plug it in. This volition each marque for a somewhat much premium acquisition overall.
Existing Kindle models
The pursuing models are older, but inactive wide disposable and mightiness connection you amended worth for wealth if you're looking to bargain a Kindle.
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Amazon Kindle with beforehand light
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- 160 x 113 x 8.7mm, 174g
- 6.0in display, 167ppi
- 8GB, Wi-Fi
Amazon's modular Kindle was updated successful 2019 with the large summation being beforehand illumination. That makes this cheapest Kindle practical, portion offering the aforesaid retention abstraction arsenic the latest devices.
The plan isn't arsenic precocious arsenic immoderate of the Paperwhite models, however, with a raised bezel astir the show and that show is simply a little solution truthful it's not arsenic crisp arsenic the aged oregon caller Paperwhite models.
With each that said, the acquisition is overmuch the aforesaid erstwhile it comes to entree to books, and speechmaking those books is inactive a pleasure.
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Amazon Kindle Kids Edition
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- 160 x 113 x 8.7mm, 174g
- 6.0in display, 167ppi
- 8GB, Wi-Fi
The Kindle Kids Edition is aimed, of course, astatine children, and has immoderate services that the different Kindles don't.
Under the surface, though, it's the aforesaid arsenic the modular Kindle above. The other bits are a lawsuit that comes arsenic modular and a worry-free warrant that the Kindle volition get replaced adjacent if it is damaged accidentally.
It besides comes with a year's worthy of escaped kids contented from Audible audiobooks and Kindle books, acknowledgment to Amazon Kids+.
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Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (2018)
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- 167 x 116 x 8.2mm, 182g
- 6.0in display, 300ppi
- 8/32GB, Wi-Fi oregon cellular
- IPX8 waterproofing
When the Paperwhite was launched, its unsocial diagnostic was the illumination, meaning you could work it without the lights on. That's present a modular feature, leaving the Kindle Paperwhite (2018) successful a mid-range position.
The 6-inch E-Ink show boasts 300ppi and has amended opposition than the regular Kindle, meaning whites are brighter and blacks are deeper. Again, this is simply a touchscreen instrumentality with a artillery that lasts for weeks. In this plan (2018), it's thinner and lighter than before, arsenic good arsenic present offering IPX8 waterproofing, with a level beforehand - truthful nary ridge connected that bezel similar the basal Kindle.
The Paperwhite comes successful Wi-Fi oregon Wi-Fi+3G options. The 3G enactment costs a small much to bargain initially, but determination are nary ongoing costs, it's a escaped transportation thereafter.
It's present been updated with the 2021 Paperwhite, but has had a steadfast terms simplification to bespeak this.
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Amazon Kindle Oasis
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- 159 x 141 x 3.4-8.4mm, 188g
- 7.0in display, 300ppi
- 8/32GB, Wi-Fi oregon cellular
- IPX8 waterproofing
Bigger and better, the Kindle Oasis is designed to beryllium the eventual speechmaking device.
This exemplary has a 7-inch show - so, larger than each the different Kindle devices - and incorporates each the apical features. It offers illumination, but with much LEDs truthful things are much evenly distributed. It besides boasts auto-brightness, arsenic recovered connected the Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition.
The Kindle Oasis is waterproof, portion retaining a bladed and airy design, truthful it's casual to gaffe into immoderate pocket. With 6-weeks of artillery life, it's a premium scholar and apical of the Kindle family.
Like with Paperwhite, there's the prime of Wi-Fi oregon 3G models, with the 8GB Wi-Fi exemplary being the astir affordable of the enactment and the 32GB 3G mentation seeing the terms soaring. The Oasis is easy the astir accomplished Kindle - if you work each time past you'll admit the further skills it offers.
Writing by Chris Hall. Originally published connected 16 April 2013.
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