Posted: 8/1/2016 6:12:35 PM EDT
| My Gen one kindle finally died. What Kindle should I get to replace it? I do have a Kindle Fire. I am not sure I like reading with it because of the back light. What is go to Kindle now? |
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I've had a paperwhite for about two years, and I love it to bits. Put a $10 case on it, I've dropped it probably a dozen times and it's still going strong. If you wait a bit and catch it on sale, you can get one for 90-100 bucks. Or you can get a refurb paperwhite for $94 now. The touch interface is quick enough and less irritating than you'd think, if you're hot for physical buttons, and I love the built-in frontlight for burning through glare or reading in bed or on the train at night. (ETA4: the frontlight on the paperwhite is very finely adjustable, from basically zero to actually uncomfortably phone-on-full-blast bright; and even at pretty high brightness it's less harsh than a backlit phone/tablet screen)
If you don't care about the frontlight, the regular touch models now are just as good and a couple dozen bucks cheaper, eighty new (sixty or seventy on sale), or sub-sixty refurb. I ain't no doctor, but I don't think the fancier readers (the Voyage and the Oasis, which both cost seventeen gazillion dollars) are worth the price difference. ETA: regardless of whether you get a regular kindle or a paperwhite, I think you'll be well-pleased with the increased resolution of the newer e-ink displays. Illustrations look way better, and it's much easier to read smaller fonts in my experience. ETA2: Here's the wirecutter on kindles and other e-readers. and if you don't want to check Amazon every couple of days or wait for Wirecutter Deals to send a tweet or an email about a sale, you could use something like the camelizer to keep an eye on whichever one you want and wait for them to knock 20 bucks off of the one you want. ETA3: Shoot! You can still get a button-having kindle for like twenty-five bucks! or get one used - this is the model I had before I had my paperwhite, and it was great in just about anything but total darkness (I read two-thirds of neuromancer on a long train ride, mostly at night, with it cranked up to the second-highest text size and using the only the dimmed night lights on the train). These guys still have the 167 ppi display, but better grays than the original kindle. |
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You should be able to view everything that's attached to your account, then download what you need. Yeah, there should be an option on the home screen either to show either "ALL" or "DOWNLOADED" (or "ON DEVICE") - switch to all and then just click/tap on each thing you want and they should queue up to download. All/Downloaded button indicated on Paperwhite in list view, with grubby pocketknife: 
Full size ETA: and all the stuff that's local will show that big checkmark. |
Thanks for the info on downloading. Some where along the line the last 2 digits of the zip code were reversed. My new Kindle is setting 100 miles away in a UPS building. It is supposed to be delivered some day. No idea when. I have had a Amazon account for 10 yrs. and never had this happen before.
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New kindle is here. It is charged up and downloaded. I started Monster Hunter International Grunge.
One thing though. The UPS driver left the package setting against the front of the Garage. If I had not gone down to the shop I would never have seen it. That has never happened before. |