Best Kindle to buy strictly for reading?
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Re: Best Kindle to buy strictly for reading?
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Also the Fire has a backlit screen which means the light is behind the screen shining up into your eyes. Some people aren't bothered much by this. Others are and it limits the length of time they can read before they get eyestrain.
The Fire does have the advantage that it's a decent inexpensive tablet for watching videos and checking email and browsing the web and playing games, none of which the Paperwhite can do.
The Paperwhite has a screen with a lot more pixels per inch so it's not grainy at all. Text is perfect. Contrast is excellent and for reading it has more features than the Fire and they work better. It also gets far better battery life. And the screen has a front light, not a back light, and that means you see reflected light just as you do when reading with a lamp over your shoulder. It's as though Jeff Bezos is standing over your shoulder as you read holding a lamp for you to read by except that with the Paperwhite you never get in it's way so no shadows.
The Fire is a cheap and decent general purpose tablet that's not bad for reading. The Paperwhite is totally useless for anything but reading but it's probably the best reading experience in the history of Planet Earth. If you want a general purpose tablet get the Fire. If you want to read get the Paperwhite. Or get both like I did.
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Wow! That was comprehensive! Thank you for that comparison. That definitely helps with my desicion. If I had plenty of money and wasn't trying to move, I'd definitely get both, but sadly I don't. I think I'll end up getting the Paperwhite after reading through that. Thank you again, it was extremely helpful!BarryEM wrote: ↑04 Apr 2018, 15:14
The Fire is a cheap and decent general purpose tablet that's not bad for reading. The Paperwhite is totally useless for anything but reading but it's probably the best reading experience in the history of Planet Earth. If you want a general purpose tablet get the Fire. If you want to read get the Paperwhite. Or get both like I did.
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Yes that's the one I have as well. I looked yesterday and there are a couple of refurbished ones in Amazon Warehouse for less than $401 lol it's the 3rd generation kindle if I remember right.
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