Kindle Paperwhite

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.

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'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.

$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 ;-)

I bought a Kindle Paperwhite in 2020, it's been doing that since day 1 of my purchase without jailbreaking or anything. It's not a new thing that journalists cover old features as if they've just been added, because they just found out about it and feel they're newsworthy

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

I recently re-picked up my Kindle after a year, and it still had 80% battery. Impressive to be fair.

being an outdoor person i read outside in the sun,, nobody show how it does in the sun my kobo forma 8 inches is super outside but it getting old it 5 years i have it, still working good but now checking for what out there cant buy another forma because its discontinued sniff,sniff😢

I'm still happy with my kindle 2 from 2009, 17 years ago lol

[...] The battery no longer lasts more than a couple of days. I'm excited about this new Kindle that has a larger screen. [...]

[...] The battery does stay charged more than a couple of days. [...] Just the bigger screen will be nice. [...]

I have kindle with microusb purchased i. 2016 still works superb for reading books, I personally don’t see the reason to upgrade if book reading is all you want.

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 bought my kindle paperwhite over a decade ago. I can't say having to wait a second when i press the screen is a big problem. [...]

[...] i’ve been using my bf’s kindle paperwhite for the past year or so but i was thinking of upgrading to a kobo libra colour?? [...]

I just bought a Paperwhite. My kindle from 2014 just broke because an entiere bottle of water in my bag spilled and my kindle was ruined.... I loved it but I am ready for the upgrade !

The screen is so crisp that it almost feels like a tablet. [...] It was as expensive as a paperwhite when I bought it and I'm super happy with it.

Had an amazon voucher going spare so upgraded Kindles. I've been using an ancient 2015 Paperwhite that I got as a hand me down from my mam years ago - it's beaten, broken and bruised so a new Kindle feels like quite the upgrade!

So fun fact but i bought the kindle paperwhite a year ago and i used it a couple of times then i just stopped but now its time for me to use it again and find my love of reading again 😂😍

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.

I'm 100% a Kindle Paperwhite reader ... for years. I love it.

[...] 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!

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

[...] But, alas, it finally refuses to charge so I will have to upgrade. [...] come to think of it, the audio stopped working in the first year I had it.

Every time I start a new book on my Kindle Paperwhite, it says 'learning reading speed'. Look Paperwhite, we've been together 5 years now. If you still don't know my reading speed, then I don't know what to tell you.

[...] 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'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 have a pretty old Amazo Kindle Paperwhite (10+ years old) and if you use the send to Kindle email address, you can only send ePub to it, they discontinued support for mobi at some point.

It's definitely not "a decade". I have the 2013 Kindle Paper white and it doesn't have that feature without JB, the oldest device supported is Kindle Paperwhite 7th Gen which is released in 2019. It's likely you are just lucky to buy a KPW with that feature just rolled out.

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

[...] 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. [...]

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.

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.

[...] 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 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.

Im in NZ, no issues. Setting up syncing with a home library is a bit messy first time, but very doable. The only other e-reader I’ve owned is a Kindle Paperwhite and it’s similar.

Both my Kindle Touch and my Kindle Paperwhite gen1 are still completely fine. And I havent noticed any typesetting etc that doesnt work. All of these discontinued devices support the AWZ4-format (which can be de-drmed and what im guessing this whole thing is about), but the newer ones use KFX which locks you perfectly into the Amazon and Kindle-ecosystem

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. [...]

You can add books using the Calibre software which converts epubs and mobi files I think. I use this with a Kindle Paperwhite 2nd Generation and avoid Amazon interaction.

[...] 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. [...]