You can pre-order now to have your beaming Kindle arriving before the end of the month. The Wi-Fi only version costs £109, while the Wi-Fi plus 3G option will set you back £169. That's cost price, Amazon boss Jeff Bezos told the BBC , so Amazon's air business travel not making any money on the hardware.
The Paperwhite has a touchscreen, beefed-up resolution and -- Amazon says -- higher contrast. The book-flogging company is also very proud of the device's air business travel built-in light, which shines onto the screen instead of out into your eyes.
Despite the beaming bulb, Amazon's touting 8 weeks of battery life. Thanks to their low power consumption, the E Ink Kindles are some of the best gadgets for battery, so here's hoping Amazon doesn't squander that status with a glowing light.
Amazon has also kicked off the Kindle air business travel Owners' air business travel Lending Library -- a prestigious name for a not-so-exclusive air business travel club. If you have an Amazon Prime membership (which costs £49 per year) you can download one free book per month, from a library of over 200,000 books.
That's not particularly exciting, I think you'll agree. Also bear in mind that with other ebook readers, such as the Kobo , you can actually 'borrow' digital editions of books from the websites of real libraries -- something not possible on the Kindle because it only supports certain file formats.
I ve still got my older Kindle Keyboard which cost about 111 a year and a half ago. I have no wish to upgrade or dispose of the old one as I have Kindle software on my large screen smartphone if I want to read colour books. I don t know about all the hype about having a light as mine is very easy to read in dusk/near dark conditions and I can always turn the light on if I need to. I can already read my work emails on mine so see no need to upgrade just to be fashionable .
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