Kindle Paperwhite

[...] It's easy to sync stuff with Calibre, you can choose any TTF font, and there are more display options for reading. At least on the Kindle Paperwhite (purchased in 2015), it does not appear to significantly affect battery life. Maybe I'm just too entrenched in the engineering space that I'm just used to "developer UI", but my wife is decidedly not a software person and she seems to like KOReader just fine.

I've been using my 2012 Paperwhite Kindle with Calibre and the experience is honestly great. The only thing I miss from the Amazon shut down is Wikipedia lookup and highlight/note syncing. Otherwise, I've steered clear of Amazon DRM for a long time so I didn't really care because I was already sideloading books with Calibre.

[...] I've been using my Kindle daily since 2017. I read on both the Kindle device (Paperwhite and vanilla), the iPad and iPhone app, and occasionally the web reader. [...]

[...] I bought a boox poke for € 130 a couple of years ago and it's a vast improvement over my (at that point 9 year old) kindle paperwhite. [...] The poke is smaller than the paperwhite but crisp in display and has the same features you noted including tts. It's 4 years old and I expect it to last another 4, so I come to the same conclusion: cheaper readers would certainly increase electronic waste since people tend to take less care of objects that are cheap and easily replacable.

I would argue that e-readers are cheap. My Kindle has been the single most value-per-dollar device purchase in my life. Nine years ago, I bought a Kindle Paperwhite 3 for $259.49. [...] However, what does bother me is that eink displays are expensive in general. [...] But these are really expensive. And, in this scenario, I'd ideally want to have more than just one display.

[...] I have a 10+ year old Kindle Paperwhite (I think first gen). I use it daily and it’s still just nearly a perfect device. It’s withstood rough treatment, battery life is still 2 books long, and it has never been made obsolete by a software update. [...]

I am using paperwhite gen 12 since 9 months now!, you dont need amazon store wink wink , I use it for my own ebooks + summaries of medicine that are converted automatic to .KFX format .... I love it because size , processor its good... I dont find flaws on it....

I purchased my kindle in 2012 and I don't think I have picked up a physical book since. I get so much more immersed in stories being able to turn the page with just a tap, And being able to take my book collection on the go.. never having to worry about physical storage space for my library as it grew over the years is priceless.

[...] The screen got washed out abit in the corner, and the text is not as dark as before, but still readable. [...]

Ive had a Kindle Paperwhite 5th or 6th generation for seven years or so and i have to say I never really thought about "upgrading". Sure, it didnt get a software update in years, doesnt perform that well and its battery has seen better times too. [...] Its really worth its money and it will definetely satisfy your reading needs for many, many years. For me, Ive sworn to upgrade my Kindle once it wont let me read books anymore...so lets see when that time comes but meanwhile its great to see the big steps its made!

Tbh im looking at upgrading from the 6th gen to the 12th gen for my birthday, to treat myself. The only problems i have with the 2013 6th gen is that when i type it cant keep up with me and also that its started coming up with errors for certain things because the kindle i think is too old for what im trying to do. The slow page turning doesnt bug me 😂

[...] When I got my first Kindle Paperwhite I loved it. But the battery life was pitiful. [...] Took me about 3 years to realize at least half the battery storage was in the case…which I’d removed to replace with a cute leather case. [...]

[...] My favorite feature of my Kindle is the ability to change font size. [...] On my Kindle, that isn’t really a problem as I can enlarge the font to a size that I am comfortable with. For me, the biggest drawback of my Kindle would losing the cover picture of a lot of books. [...] I realize that an updated version would solve that problem for me. [...] Even my Kindle doesn’t have the feel of a book. However, that feeling gets replaced by my Kindle when I start reading a book that in paper is over 500 pages. When that happens, my Kindle shines brightest. [...]

[...] I just bought the Greg Bear humble bundle (27 epub books), dragged all of them in one step, clicked the submit button and that was it. Books showed up on my paperwhite kindle in a moment. [...]

Made this after seeing a stylus plugin for KOReader which my old kindle paperwhite 4 does not have. [...]

[...] I've owned a Kindle Paperwhite and a Boox Note 4+ but I never really got into the habit of reading much on them. [...] The X4 is so small that I can throw it in my pocket and read a page or two when I'm waiting for something instead of doomscolling on my phone. [...]

[...] - The e-ink screen doesn't feel like a screen. [...] Previously Kindle Paperwhite 6th Gen, and since a few weeks, Kobo Clara BW.

Yeah, my sister bought into the Kindle eco-system early on, but I picked a Sony PRS-505 instead (mostly because it would fit in a Travelsmith shirt pocket) and for a long while, the only ebook which I had "purchased" was Robert Heinlein's Space Cadet which I got w/ a $10 credit for browsing their store on a certain day (which I then got a price-fixing rebate check for which I kind of wish I'd kept...) and it was so rife with errors I had to check out a copy from the library to determine what some of them were. When the Sony ebook store closed down, my "library" was transferred to Kobo's and their copy of that novel was made in a different fashion, or corrected, so was actually readable on the Sony PRS-600 I eventually upgraded to. Since then, I bought a Kindle Paperwhite, and I've made a game of either getting free e-books when offered on the store, or purchasing books when on sale and I've had sufficient Amazon gift cards from Microsoft Rewards, so that I've not spent "real" money on any virtual books, except for when I've purchased an ebook to go along with a newly published hardcover by an author whose work I feel strongly enough that it merits such doubled purchasing.

For what its worth, if you have one of the older paperwhites that's basically bricked now, you can jailbreak it and turn it into a pretty neat e-ink dashboard. [...] Its been running as a little weather/calendar display for months now on basically zero power. [...]

[...] But I've always had one frustration: I can only control it through my phone, my computer, or by talking to Alexa. [...] I don't have my phone on me at all times. [...] They're instant, they don't run out of battery, and anyone can use them. [...] It worked pretty well for guests and gave me glanceable info, but leaving a screen on 24/7 felt wrong. I’m sure it’s not great for the display, and it constantly emitted light that got annoying at night or during movies. [...] I wouldn't have spent $500+ just for this, and a cheap Android tablet or a RaspberryPi with a screen felt like a step down in quality. Then I tried hacking a Kindle Paperwhite I wasn't using anymore. [...] The screen stayed on al the time, the eInk display looked great and blended in with my wall, and the power management was surprisingly good. It polled the HA API every minute or so, only updated the screen when something changed, and since eInk screens don't consume power when the content is static, the thing lasted days on a charge. [...]

[...] I used a Kindle Paperwhite 11th gen. [...] It's been a while, but I think I enabled SSH on my Kindle and set it up that way. I started Syncthing via KUAL, then used an SSH reverse proxy to configure Syncthing on my laptop. [...]

[...] FWIW the 10th generation Kindle Paperwhite (the "PW4" in kindlemodding/mobileread lingo) doesn't have as large a screen as the newest models, but its maximum supported OS is currently 5.18.1 (and you can download that update directly from Amazon and transfer over USB), which is vulnerable to AdBreak. [...] I read mostly on my iPad; the Kindle is really just for reading outside, like at the beach/pool. [...]

[...] Sold my kindle paperwhite via classifieds to someone who would embrace the Amazon walled garden (so someone new e-reading). [...]

[...] I have both an old Kindle Paperwhite 2nd Gen I think and a Kobo Clara. [...] and you can get firmware updates for the Kobo devices via and they are easy to apply - drag / drop. I don't get books from Kobo's site as it used to be hard if not impossible to strip the DRM from them - which meant I couldn't read them on my Kindle. [...]

[...] Kobo had blue light blocking night shift before Kindle Paperwhite (I think both have it now?) Kobo had a convenient feature where you slide your finger along the side of the screen to change brightness, instead of having to go into multiple menus to do this. [...]

[...] Like you said, the paperwhite is amazing for laying in bed at night (really like the backlight) or on the couch or traveling to read. [...]

I had a PW 10th gen the one with the 6 inch screen and no warm light. My wife bought me the last 11th gen PW signature Agave with the expectation I give her my 10th gen. [...] The battery dies way too soon due to its age it’s not worth tryin go to replace it unless you are good at DIY electronics. [...]

The best Kindle and best e-reader I've ever had. And I had most of the Kindles throughout the years. It's the perfect size, super fast, backlight is great, Amazon e- book offerings are still the best.

[...] The battery is insane good so as the screen and the speed. I had a Kindle 9...it was unbelievably slow. [...]

[...] Earlier versions I owned were the Keyboard in 2012 and the Basic in 2020. The Paperwhite is the best. It’s so intuitive and comfortable, plus it cuts down on clutter. [...]

I’m right handed. Placing a Pop Socket on the lower right corner was an astonishing game-changer for me. KindleLove I own three Kindle Paperwhite 11th Gen (2 Signatures and one Regular) and that also is wonderful as I can read three books at once without going to the slow-refresh Library whenever I change books.

I love, love, love my Paperwhite! On Prime Day I switched from my original keyboard and buttons Kindle. It is so small and portable but has a bigger screen than my old one. [...]

I got a Kindle Paperwhite as a gift from my work and I fell in love with e-readers. [...]

[...] I've rooted my Kindle Paperwhite and set it up with a terminal and used it to SSH into my laptop just to try it, but the latency makes it a bit irritating just to keep up with typing. [...] I built a cyberdeck that primarily uses a pair of XReal AR glasses as its display, but to have the option to use either those or this would be so awesome.

I jailbroke my Kindle recently, because I am a little frustrated that Amazon can just decide that a book isn't mine anymore, even when I have ostensibly "bought" it. [...] Turns out that it's cartoonishly easy to jailbreak the Kindle Paperwhite, install KOReader, and then just drag and drop EPUB files on there. [...]

My Kindle Paperwhite 5th gen is rooted and runs KOReader. It's not a great solution - you still have very little freedom, Amazon frequently patches root methods - and you might be waiting months for someone to find a working root method, and if you accidentally update - bye bye, root/KOReader. But it is a solution.

I have an old Kindle Paperwhite where I both buy books from Amazon and sideload using Calibre and it has never deleted anything to my knowledge. [...] I wonder if this is a "feature" of new Paperwhites? [...] I was looking to replace mine because it has the old micro USB connector that no other device I own uses, and so I must keep a cable just for it.

I have ppw 11th gen since it was released. Replaced my ppw 10th gen for it. But i miss my old kindle ppw because it is a bit smaller and fit in my hand better than 11th gen. Another dilemma is the back side of it feels like rubber hence, a lot of smudge for a sweaty hands 😢 Can someone please tell me if the backside of the newest ppw gen is rubber or not? TIA.

[...] The main reason I did it was I wanted the ability to write on an e-reader, but I didn't want to pay Kindle Scribe prices. [...]

[...] I had Kindle DX (2010) and Kindle Paperwhite (2016?). [...] Buying a new eink reader I would for sure avoid color screens. [...]

Remotely related. I made this KOreader plugin around yesterday using Claude code to take notes (actually just scribbles) on my old Kindle Paperwhite 4 (2018, 10th gen) I didn't know this was possible at all. I saw some plugins to take notes using Stylus and thought capacitative touch should work too.

In some cases yes, in others no. As much as I love my new electronics I still play my 14 year old Xbox One, read on my 2012 Kindle Paperwhite and use multiple 5+ year old laptops that function almost the same as they did (running Linux helps). 3 years is not really the lifetime of most consumer electronics anymore...at least outside of the latest GPUs.

Why? I'm using my old Kindle Paperwhite every day, for many years now and I haven't had any issues or "distractions" pop up ever. Rarely I have to plug it into my computer to send books to it with Calibre, that's my only interaction with this device.

I replaced the battery after using the kindle Paperwhite for 7+ years. And now its battery life is as good as the new one's.

[...] I don't understand how one can tell someone else that their computer is unacceptably slow for that other individual's personal use. [...] My next e-reader will be one that I own (instead of just rent). Glad that I took the time to jailbreak and pause updates on my 2017 kindle paperwhite while I could.

$80-100 is incredibly cheap for any mainstream tech device when you factor in design, manufacturing, marketing, shipping, software, support. [...] Wanting one for the price of a paperback so you can throw it away once you are done is absurd. I got a Kindle Paperwhite for $100 in 2016 and still use it almost every day. Easily the best value gadget I have ever owned.

I've been using the same Kindle Paperwhite for about 13 years and there always have been ads in it because I didn't pay for the 30$ extra initially. It never bothered me as they stop when you put the device in airplane mode, which is what I always do ;-)

My Kindle Paperwhite has been running strong for 10 years. No issues whatsoever except diminished battery life.

I'm using a three-ish year old kindle paperwhite, but when this one gives up the ghost in a few years I hope to move to a boox (so I don't lose my kindle library)

[...] I love the smell and feel of books, but I also love the backlight and increased font size on my Kindle Paperwhite. [...]