One Paperwhite for meFor those of you who tuned in to Episode 25 of Weekly Sync you learned all about my new love of the Kindle Paperwhite. I got it yesterday from a Waterstones bookshop in Bromley, UK. Frankly I had forgotten that this lovely quiet bookshop sold something as impressive as Kindles. I believed that any technology these places sold tended to go as high as the bookmark. Though that proved to be my ignorance.
When I got to the testing table for the Kindles in Waterstones I was very pleased to see that all the devices had power, nicely cleaned and able for me to pick up and play with without being locked down. Each model was cycling through the demonstration mode to show of the key functions of the Kindle. Though I did find that if I wanted too I was able to exit the demonstration and play with some of the test content that lay within the Kindles. I always like to see what test content these shops put inside their devices that they deem customer friendly.
Fire versus PaperwhiteI am not going to give you a run down of the technical specs of the two models. You can head over to Amazon for that. For Kindles head here and for Fire's head here. What I want to talk about is how they felt in my hands. You already know how I decided but you should know about the road not taken.
Kindle Fire SeriesThey feel, big. That is the world I would give them. When I have them in my hands I can tell there is something sizable there without opening my eyes or knowing anything about these devices dimensions.
The smoothness of the casing and professionalism applied to the body structure is second to none. It really does amaze that a tablet like this can be this light. The thing that bothered me was that all of the Fire series had been clearly designed to be held in a landscape mode. Though they would function in portrait it does not feel right to do it that way.
Kindle PaperwhiteNow this device had been made to be held in a portrait manner and will not work on landscape, just like a traditional book. Which suits me very well indeed. I wanted an eReader that would behave book-like but give me so much more than a paper book will.
The screen brightness blows me away, it adjusted to me as i covered the display with my hands. So this device truly is environment sensitive and adjusts to even fractional changes to light.
Wishlist GluttonyI am discovering that I am massively behind on my reading. When you get a Kindle the first thing you should do is search out all the free books you can to boost your library to good starting point. Then once you have done that I suggest going through the Amazon store to find as many books as you can that strike your fancy and add them to your Wish List for future buying. Do not buy all at once, buy them slowly. Reading is a slow activity, do not rush.
