2/14/2024 0 Comments Paperwhite kindle reader![]() Goodreads, the social reading and reviews site that Amazon bought in 2013, has been integrated as well.Īs with other e-readers, you can also borrow e-books from your local library. The kid-friendly Kindle FreeTime and Vocabulary Builder (words you look up are automatically added) are now on all of Amazon's e-ink Kindles, and Amazon has enhanced its X-Ray feature, too - it cross-references major passages and characters in a book. You can adjust the amount definitions you get (it can be restricted to really hard words) or turn off the feature entirely.Īmazon has long had the most robust feature ecosystem for its readers, and the platform continues to mature and add even more. The higher resolution display also comes in handy with Amazon's Word Wise feature in which1 simple definitions appear above difficult words in small typeface (the added resolution helps you read the small type). The new layout allows you to get more words per line with larger font sizes.īacks of the Kindle Paperwhite (left) and Kindle Voyage (right). Where it helps the most is when you jack up the font size and only have a few words per line (a lot of sight-challenged people like using e-readers specifically because you can adjust the font size). It's one of those changes that subtly enhances and improves the reading experience, but it's not exactly a big wow if you're reading at standard font sizes. The new layout will be available with about 500,000 e-books at launch, with more titles being added in the coming months. That engine includes improved character spacing and the addition of hyphenation, justification, kerning, ligatures, and drop cap support, all of which helps you read faster with less eyestrain, according to Amazon. ![]() Sarah Tew/CNET Continued software updates and new featuresĪside from the upgraded screen, Amazon is touting the addition of Bookerly, "an exclusive font designed from the ground up for reading on digital screens" and a new typesetting engine that "lays out words just as the author intended." Word Wise adds simple definition to hard words. It's a nice extra but it's unclear how many people are dropping their Kindles in the pool or ocean. Kobo offers that feature with its Aura H20. ![]() If you're wondering what's missing, the one hardware feature that Amazon has yet to introduce to its Kindle line is waterproofing. Amazon may bring the same page-flash setting to the Voyage in a software update, but at the time of this writing, it wasn't available on my Voyage review sample. Or, if you want, in the settings, you can set the screen to flash every page turn (there's no way to adjust the page-flash settings beyond that, however). To clear the screen you can just turn of the e-reader for a moment. After 50 or so page turns, a a touch of e-ink "ghosting" starts to build up. With this new Paperwhite, I kept turning pages and the screen never flashed. With the Voyage I ended up turning around 14 pages before the screen would refresh (that number was pretty consistent). Most people don't mind too much when the screen blinks, but it does bother some readers. Some competitors, including Kobo, have made efforts to reduce the amount of flashing the screen does to clear e-ink's slight ghosting effect as you turn pages.
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