Kindle Paperwhite | Waterproof, 6" High-Resolution Display, 8GB—with Ads—Black (Previous generation)

I’ve always loved physical books (still do) so for a long time kindles and other devices like it held no interest for me and then I fell into the world of FanFiction the majority of which isn’t available in book form so you have to read it online, I was reading on my phone which was both too small for my liking and drained my battery when I discovered that I could download fanfics as ebooks and read them on a kindle I snapped up a bundle deal with the case and plug and I absolutely would not be without it now, I currently have over 700 fanfic books on mine, - the battery life is fantastic, - It’s easy to use, - the Amazon plug is well worth purchasing, - it’s so easy to put books on just save the book to your laptop, plug it in open the relevant file and copy and paste or drag them over. - the background light is well worth having - paying the extra £10 to have it ad free is also well worth it in my opinion. -once a book is downloaded onto the device you can read it anywhere no need to be online. -the storage is immense, I have over 700 books of varying lengths on mine and have barley used a gb. -it’s the perfect size and nice and light. -it saves your page so you just open it and go. If you’re a book lover like me it probably won’t ever be able to completely replace books but it’s a brilliant little device to be able to carry about with hundreds (or even thousands) of books at your fingertips, it’s perfect for my needs and I wouldn’t be without one now and highly recommended them.

I love my new kindle paperwhite. It’s lighter to hold than my ond one (7 yrs). . I decided it was time to get a new one as the old ones battery needed charging every couple of days , so here I am with my brand new 10th edition one and boy am I pleased with it . It came with a Charging cable , two tiny instruction books which I was unable to read, but no worries as , it’s all on the paperwhite anyway and easily read as you can enlarge the print . It does not come with a charger if you need one it’s a 9 volt one you need. Due to already having a registered paperwhite on Amazon I found my books downloaded automatically and in no time at all , in fact the book I was halfway through reading was there on the first page ready for me to open and start reading from where I left off once I had set up my newbie. I needed to adjust a few settings which was easy o do , Amongst other thing it has a setting that some people with low vision May find helpful, it makes the print vey bold. People who have older paperwhites will have no trouble setting this one up, I didn’t need to do any reading up . It comes partially charged up so you can switch on and set it up straight away . Apart from a tiny rim around the edge It has a flat screen which will make it easy to clean . I have no intention of reading in a bath (I shower) but you can safely with this one if you wish . On one review I read it mentioned that the power button at the bottom protruded too far so that you could accidentally switch it off whilst reading , I have not encountered this problem so maybe they have sorted it out . I like the fact that it is lighter than my old one , the screen seems more responsive too . Atm I have no idea how often I will need to charge it , I do an awful lot if reading so I doubt it will last weeks but I will be happy if I only need to charge it once a week. My paperwhite is so new I haven’t found any cons yet , if I do I will do an update

OK Folks, The first Kindle I bought was great. It was fantastic. Perhaps the only reason it froze after about 2 years was because I had not yet written a review of it. What a fantastic idea! And I, at least, continue to rather prefer buying Kindle books and reading on a Kindle to reading all except older books. It surely must be more ecologically viable to not have to print hundreds of books. And convenient, to be able to have a portable library at your fingertips. The electric charge also keeps very well in Kindles. If this one is waterproof, then that is an improvement, but I would not want to throw it in the bath to try it to its limits. For anyone who suffers with sight problems the ability to change the Font is great. A formerly Dyslexic relative of mine told me that because he did not feel the pressure remembered from school of having a heavy book in front of him he just instead had to cope with a page at a time that he does so, and first did so and could hardly believe that after a while he had managed to complete his first book ever. Not only that, but I do have to say that before the Kindle came out the Book Industry as led by the Publishers was highly exlusive in a rather prejudicial manner: less that it was exclusive, but that its intention was often to exclude. I like Jeff Bezos from what I have seen of him (the Boss of Amazon). It is my theory he was never given enough credit for the magnificent invention of the Kindle. It may be that he went into overdrive as a result of this oversight. I admit that I have been in overdrive also to an extent, and am currently in some circles known as one of Amazon's "wildest customer". It may be that with the outbreak of Coronovirus people are going to be wanting to order more from Amazon and expect intrepid parcel deliverers to treck out to meet all their demands. I myself DID intend to try to stop using Amazon for anything other than Kindle books, and perhaps to listen to Albums before I order them from HMV. The problem is sometimes I have found that HMV has refused to acknowledge an Album of great worth and refuse to scout it into its stock. So, maybe I will use it for Music a little if necessary. I am hoping NOT to use it to watch films because the Carbon Footprint of Streaming both on Amazon and competing services like Netflix is said to be high....and if I am going to stream video I would prefer to keep it to YouTube. For now, I am hoping to be able to continue my Prime Membership to show for a while how grateful I do feel towards what Amazon has done for me. But Jeff Bezos has come out himself now as someone who is really concerned about Climate Change and the Environment....and it may indeed have been this initial concern which led him to invent the Kindle...as it was my concern also that led me to buy one in the first place.

This is my third Kindle and my second Paperwhite. I just upgraded from the 6th Gen but was it worth it? Putting aside that I got a great deal on prime day I was looking to upgrade anyway. My old case needed replacing and I wanted the latest tech so chose to make the leap. Noticeable differences I love the flat surface, this to me is one of the better changes. I like things to look new and one thing that use to annoy me was the amount of dust that was collected around the dip where the screen was in the 6th generation even though I had a closing case on it. Not only did it attract dust but the black finish around the edges where you held the kindle was a magnet for fingerprints and greasy marks. The new kindle doesn’t have this issue with a completely flat front it makes it simple to wipe clean without having to get around edges and while the new one still shows fingerprints they are not as noticeable. Thumbs up from me! It’s thinner and easier to hold. This mostly is because of the bottom which is now smaller and all one size whereas the 6th Gen had a wider bottom and my thumb would always sit there which wasn’t comfortable. This new one eliminates that issue perfectly. Differences that are there but not really noticeable Screen looks pretty much the same, maybe the text is a little clearer but unless you had them side by side you wouldn’t notice. It’s lighter but again unless I have them both in my hand, I really wouldn’t notice. I have a case on them anyway so this adds to the weight. It’s water resistant…….I don’t read in the bath or in a swimming pool but it’s handy to know it’s there. You can store audiobooks and the space has doubled to 8GB (unless you go for the 32GB) Again I don’t use audiobooks and if I did I would probably use my phone so 8GB is more than enough as I never filled my 4GB one before. Those of you wanting to use the audiobooks you can link Bluetooth headphones as there is no headphone jack. Things that seem the same Speed at which you swipe pages, turn the device on and navigate the kindle to me all seem the same speeds. Any negatives? Mostly minor. I would have liked to see a USB-C charging point as this is the way tech is going and it’s a quicker charging time. Battery life seems a little worse than the 6th Gen. I am 35% into my first book on here and I am down to 68% in less than a week whereas my 6th Gen didn’t ever seem like it needed charging. I am using it at night more so maybe it’s the backlight. This is based on the same settings (You can improve your battery by turning off wifi but I wanted to do a comparison) Wake up isn’t instant and you have to swipe to unlock. My old one just turned onto where I was reading rather than have an extra thing to do to wake up. My feelings are this is because you now have a flat screen and it’s easier to hit so you may move the page but another part of me see’s this as Amazon’s way to put advertisements on the screen. Verdict A much nicer smaller Kindle that feels comfortable to hold when reading which is all I want from these devices. The only real concern to me is the battery life compared to my previous Gen 6 however I am pleased I made the jump and this is a recommended product from me. Happy Reading

I've been a long time user of Kindles from the two pre-screen keyboard, and the joystick and paddle versions through to the earliest touchscreen model which has been solid and reliable for many many years. So what makes this Kindle worth the upgrade? The first is the Bluetooth Audio connection. Listening to audiobooks as well as reading has become almost daily routines with Audible making journeys as well as sitting at home playing music through headphones and Hi-Fi simple and easy. The second is that it's finally OK to read while relaxing in the bath without the risk of dosing off and… well you can guess the rest. The nicest part though is the usability. The interface feels more accurate and responsive. Previously I found the touchscreen mildly annoying with swipes on the main screen being mistaken for book selections (and vice versa) and menus being slow to respond to inputs. The new screen is very easy on the eye especially at night and the older model's screen seems greener than the comparatively pure white. It also performs better in both brightly lit and dark environments and infinitely less tiring on the eye than a laptop screen, opted for the 32GB model to accommodate my rather ridiculous number of books and audiobooks I like to have to hand: there are so many out-of-copyright non-DRM .mobi formatted classic Victorian and 20th Century books available that are a pleasure to enjoy alongside the simply huge number of Kindle formatted books to borrow and buy. Accessories I recommend getting a case (I went with a grey Amazon cloth covered waterproof case - the experience in terms of size and weight is that of a small-midsize paperback - with the added advantage it switches on when the cover is opened and it's firmly held shut and turns off when you close it (the magnets in the cover also keep the front cover firmly attached to the back of the case, and therefore out of the way, after it's open. I've stuck with Kindle from the outset and even though I have checked out competitors' products I've always found the Kindle Paper-white to have a superior feel. There are two reasons that I don't give this Kindle a full 5 star rating. Firstly is their continued closed-market approach with incompatibility with pretty much anything but the proprietary format Kindle books and .mobi formatted (non-DRM) books, making it impossible to read even the open standard .epub format books widely available, or even directly loading PDF documents which verges on the ridiculous. The second issue is not choosing a form-factor and sticking to it. My older Kindles remain in use or have been donated to charities - I don't like the increased consumer waste resulting from tweaking the size and shape of Kindles resulting in the huge increase in associated wasted materials consumed with needing to buy new cases every time I buy a new device. That said the packaging is recyclable. I hope this helps you weigh up the pros and cons of buying this waterproof Kindle PaperWhite and associated cover. Overall it's a great device having the ability to take a literal library of books anywhere in something the size of a small paperback is something I use daily.

Have been wanting one of these for a while now. Not sure why as I've never been into books or reading but recently I have discovered a passion for a good novel so decided to bite the bullet. I did originally like a real book as I find it less daunting being able to physically see how much you've read and how much is left to go but they were a pain to hold sometimes and there was always the fear of losing your place. This kindle is excellent. So easy to hold. Light weight and saves having to find places to store several books. You can keep them all in one place. Easy to travel with and you can have a new book to read instantly. No having to travel to a shop to buy one. Soecially if you can't sleep so feel like reading and the shops are shut and no having to wait for books to be delivered. You don't have to worry about turning lights on to read as there is a light built in making reading in the dark easy. You can just pick it up and go. It remembers the last place automatically so no worries about bookmarks or losing your page. I also have kindle on my phone so if I'm out and about and have time to kill I can carry on reading on my phone and it'll pick up from where I left off on my kindle. Then when I go back to the kindle it will automatically go to where I left on my phone. I got the version with built in ads. I dint even notice them. They don't interfere with reading and are mainly just on the lock screen. I will quite happily put up with the ads to save myself an extra tenner. Super easy to set up although I cant seem to connect my Bluetooth earphones to them which is a bit annoying. Maybe they're not compatible so will do a little bit if research into this as would be nice to just listen to the book sometimes. When you're reading it tells you the percentage read at the bottom which is nice so I can have some idea of how much I have left to read. Its not a super fast device but it doesn't need to be. Its responsive enough for what it is and works perfectly well. Battery life is fantastic. You can sit and read for hours and nit have to worry about it dying on you and when the battery is low it will let you know so you can plug it in before it switches off half way through a page. I would definately recommend a kindle for anyone who likes to read and lots of great free books to choose from through kindle.

Until now I have used the kindle app on my ipad mini for reading books but I recently saw my son reading his secondhand Kindle Paperwhite sitting in strong sunshine and was astounded at how good it was and how easy to read. I used to take old fashioned print books outside for reading in sunshine but I find ebooks so convenient that I really can’t be bothered with reading print novels anymore. They seem ridiculously heavy and awkward. It was actually stopping me from sitting outside or enjoying walking as much. Based on his recommendation I started looking for a secondhand or reconditioned one, then I saw that this is watersafe and that was that - I was sold. I love reading in the bath. I have found it perfect for reading outside and I’m really enjoying the freedom to make the most of the rare days of sunshine we seem to be getting in Cornwall. It’s beautifully light and easy to take with me on cliff walks and days on the beach. Now I can dispose of even more heavy, awkward and dusty print novels and their shelves. I would like to be able to block off the sockets when I’m on a sandy beach. I have bought a cover but that exposes the sockets. I wish there were silicone socket covers like my old nokia clamshell phone. Perhaps they are available? My only real criticism is one that applies to all ebooks and readers. Why is the cataloguing of ebooks so terrible?. Now I have a couple of hundred ebooks i am getting increasingly frustrated by the terrible systems available. Yes I’ve tried Goodreads, and cloud collections. I’ve tried various apps as well. Why can’t I have the equivalent of shelves for my entire collection. I want to see spines, not lists or fronts, and I want to move my books around with my finger tip just as I would with real books. I want to be able to touch the spines to expand them to show the front. Solve that and I’ll be truly happy.

I have a few previous Kindles and this one is really great. I love the size and the screen and it is a bonus that it's waterproof although I don't read it near water. Yes we all know you can read loads of books and it makes reading a joy and you don't need tons of shelving for books blah blah blah BUT The library format is rubbish. It is so difficult to organise the books and confusing. I downloaded my books onto my 32 gb kindle and then realised I couldn't seem to do anything remotely like I wanted with them so then spent ages 'removing download' from all of the ones I think I have read. So now I'm wondering why I have a 32gb Kindle with about ten books on?? I just wanted to download them all. Have a file with read books and a few collections of favourite authors and the rest that were loose are books that I haven't read. But no. It won't do that. My first kindle back in 2011 is a keyboard kindle and it sorts them properly and you can see a number of how many books you have in your Read file. It is nice to see it going up as you read lots of books and I think encourages you to read more. Plus the new books on the screen are all sitting there ready for you to read which is a great incentive to read more. I'm a person that likes organisation and it has really ruined the excitement of having a nice new kindle. I could still use my old faithful keyboard kindle but the battery is getting a bit worn out now. I did read lots of reviews and I did think that this was going to be a problem but didn't realise how much. I do really love my new kindle and the accompanying case that I bought and when reading a book you just have to forget the niggle of having no where to put it once read. Please please Amazon Kindle put the storage back to how it was in the beginning, you have altered something that worked well to a disorganised set of books that is far to difficult to tidy up.