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However, he says that given the choice today, he'd opt for the new Paperwhite over the Kindle he uses now, as well as the $69 entry-level Kindle (which lacks both a touch-screen and self-illuminated screen).Īmazon says the contrast has been increased, but it's hard to tell that the blacks are that much blacker, even if they are. Katzmaier, CNET's home video guru, uses the now-discontinued 2011 Kindle Touch regularly and wasn't a fan of the slightly flawed lighting scheme on the original 2012 Paperwhite. Both editor David Katzmaier and I also thought that text looked slightly sharper with the light off. With the light off, it becomes much harder to tell the difference between the the original Paperwhite and the new model. Of course, some people don't like to read with the light on when they have ample natural light (or are in direct sunlight). Instead of a Kindle logo on back of the device, there's an Amazon logo.

You simply use the onscreen slider control to adjust brightness or turn the light off altogether. It's nice that you can easily adjust that brightness, but it's worth mentioning that there's no dedicated physical button for turning the light on and off like there is on the Kobo Aura.

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The official company line is that the 'whites are whiter and the blacks are blacker, so pages are virtually indistinguishable from a physical book.' I wouldn't quite go that far, but the display - and reading experience - continues to improve and looks more like a printed book.Īmazon encourages you to read with the light on, though not necessarily at full brightness.

The light now displays noticeably more evenly across the bottom and the rest of the screen.Ĭompared side by side with the original, the old Paperwhite's display does look a little dull and gray (with that blue twinge).

On the original Paperwhite, there was a bit of murkiness (sort of a clouding effect) at the bottom of the display when using the light, particularly at night.