Great gift!

Unfortunately, there isn’t a Kindle subscription to Newsweek which would work on a Paperwhite. There is an app, but that’s for the Fire, not for the Paperwhite.

my faithful kindle keyboard 3G died two days ago while I was travelling abroad. Even if out of warranty, I was offered a replacement (great service Amazon!), but as an I am an “International user” it simply wasn’t worth it. The offer was a kindle touch 3G at 150$ (plus shipping and Vat) instead of 104$ if I had been in the USA. With Paperwhite at 189$, I didn’t really think about it

So I’ve bought a K PW, but I’m somewhat scared by the negative reviews. It seems a lot of people see spots of colour (pinkish or bluish) or white/black dots on the screen. Did you have this problem?

Thank you (and you SO for her patience)

Mara

It’s an interesting and complicated question.

If you are talking about hardware changes in future models, I do think they’ll get rid of the shadowing at the bottom (which doesn’t affect reading, but does seem to bother some people). I think there is a possibility we’ll see a big screen version (replacing the recently departed Kindle DX). I’d love to see a version with speakers and TTS (text-to-speech) even if it’s more expensive.

Eventually, there will be a color model, and screen refresh will get faster to the point of limited animation.

If you are talking about software…I do think we’ll move towards more social with personally defined groups. That would include notes and reviews from you group, and not just from a general “public”.

I think eventually we’ll get a lot more organizational capability, including the ability to specify users with different access to the archives. This would include the ability to download to multiple devices at once, and delete more than one item at a time.

There are a few ideas.

The software features above would not be limited to the Paperwhite, but not become available on all models.

I don’t have that issue, but again, it’s possible my vision affects that. It looks sharp enough to me.

First, I have to say that my vision isn’t typical. I have some color vision deficiency, and I think as a rsult of that, superior night vision.

When I’m not outside in bright sunlight, I have the brightness turned down…I’d say at about 75%.

I use the Sepia background.

I use Georgia and size 5…that’s on my Kindle Fire HD. On my Kindle Fire 1st Gen, I used Arial.

I was surprised, too. I thought I would find reading on the Fire uncomfortable for long stretches, but I don’t. I can easily read chapters on it. I have changed settings on it a bit, though.

While I notice the Paperwhite as a superior experience (although I haven’t sat and read on it for a straight hour, yet), I don’t especially notice it with my Mindle or Touch.