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Business Insider: Amazon is having its biggest Kindle sale ever for Prime members only
Amazon Link:
https://www.amazon.com/b/?node=6669...e&pf_rd_r=EZNC1YXYE8HBMFSZVS96&pf_rd_i=kindle
The basic Kindle is the most affordable. The Kindle Paperwhite is the best buy. The Kindle Voyage and Kindle Oasis are two strategies for the most premium experience. The latter is obviously intended to be their finest eReader, but it got beat up by an LA TImes reviewer last year when it launched:
Amazon's $290 e-reader misfire: A hands-on review of the new Kindle Oasis
At least I'm on board with where they are now. I wasn't a huge fan of the original Kindle, but the current Voyage has frontlighting & the 4th generation of the eInk display technology that is intended to mimic real paper, so you can read at night. The displays are so much sharper than they used to be. It really is much easier on the eyes, especially with how low it keeps the luminescence using the automatic brightness. You can even enable a mode where you set the brightness manually, then it gradually dims the display over time based on the ambient brightness in order to give your eyes more or less time to adjust.
These device are also incredibly light. You can feel it. Feels lighter than a phone because of the surface area. That's where the Oasis really shines, though. It has a charging cover that extends the battery life. The Oasis can dock and un-dock to this charging cover: docked, it is only slightly heavier than past Kindles; un-docked, it's lighter than the latest iPhone.
Nevertheless, the lifetime free 3G support with the device and Whispernet for browsing the Amazon store might be the best thing about their cellular-capable Kindle devices. It also syncs all your content across all your Amazon-linked devices (ex. your iPhone or Android phone with the Kindle app installed will remember which page you are on for a certain book when you open it because that's where you left off reading on your Kindle). There is limited access to web content; basically limited to content that is text-based (ex. Wikipedia) or that Amazon can sell in some form.
Below are some charts I composed for myself a while ago because there wasn't a comparative resource on the market I found satisfactory. I strongly recommend the Kindle Paperwhite 3G.
Trusted Reviews > Kindle Voyage vs. Kindle Paperwhite
Meanwhile, here is the Wikipedia page with details on all the various eBook & graphic novel formats that exist out there, and a chart showing all the formats that each device supports:
Click Here to Go to Beginning of Wikipedia Article
Click Here to Go Directly to the Device Chart & Supported Formats
There is one program that is an absolute must for managing eBook libraries. It is essential: the God program for eBooks. It has a steep learning curve, but once you've dialed it in, nothing makes exporting books to the device easier (or seeing/removing what ebooks are already on there):
https://calibre-ebook.com/download
Amazon Link:
https://www.amazon.com/b/?node=6669...e&pf_rd_r=EZNC1YXYE8HBMFSZVS96&pf_rd_i=kindle
The basic Kindle is the most affordable. The Kindle Paperwhite is the best buy. The Kindle Voyage and Kindle Oasis are two strategies for the most premium experience. The latter is obviously intended to be their finest eReader, but it got beat up by an LA TImes reviewer last year when it launched:
Amazon's $290 e-reader misfire: A hands-on review of the new Kindle Oasis
I owe @Trollgrappler a huge apology. He was one of the original guys on board this devoted eReader train, and maturation of the technology has paid dividends.Michael Hiltzik said:Screen quality is the number-one complaint about the Oasis on e-reader fan sites such as mobileread and kboards, where disappointment in the new device is palpable. Users are conducting a vigorous debate on both sites about whether the Oasis screen flaws are real or imagined, major or minor, avoidable or inevitable given the technology. But plainly they’re serious enough to prompt many users to return their models. “I'm not really comfortable with letting these faults with the screen slide,” wrote one user on mobileread, “but I absolutely love the weight, the form factor, the asymmetry, and the size…. It's a beautiful rose with some painful thorns.”
At least I'm on board with where they are now. I wasn't a huge fan of the original Kindle, but the current Voyage has frontlighting & the 4th generation of the eInk display technology that is intended to mimic real paper, so you can read at night. The displays are so much sharper than they used to be. It really is much easier on the eyes, especially with how low it keeps the luminescence using the automatic brightness. You can even enable a mode where you set the brightness manually, then it gradually dims the display over time based on the ambient brightness in order to give your eyes more or less time to adjust.
These device are also incredibly light. You can feel it. Feels lighter than a phone because of the surface area. That's where the Oasis really shines, though. It has a charging cover that extends the battery life. The Oasis can dock and un-dock to this charging cover: docked, it is only slightly heavier than past Kindles; un-docked, it's lighter than the latest iPhone.
Nevertheless, the lifetime free 3G support with the device and Whispernet for browsing the Amazon store might be the best thing about their cellular-capable Kindle devices. It also syncs all your content across all your Amazon-linked devices (ex. your iPhone or Android phone with the Kindle app installed will remember which page you are on for a certain book when you open it because that's where you left off reading on your Kindle). There is limited access to web content; basically limited to content that is text-based (ex. Wikipedia) or that Amazon can sell in some form.
Below are some charts I composed for myself a while ago because there wasn't a comparative resource on the market I found satisfactory. I strongly recommend the Kindle Paperwhite 3G.
Trusted Reviews > Kindle Voyage vs. Kindle Paperwhite
Meanwhile, here is the Wikipedia page with details on all the various eBook & graphic novel formats that exist out there, and a chart showing all the formats that each device supports:
Click Here to Go to Beginning of Wikipedia Article
Click Here to Go Directly to the Device Chart & Supported Formats
There is one program that is an absolute must for managing eBook libraries. It is essential: the God program for eBooks. It has a steep learning curve, but once you've dialed it in, nothing makes exporting books to the device easier (or seeing/removing what ebooks are already on there):
https://calibre-ebook.com/download
14-minute Tutorial from Calibre Staff
5-minute Quick Setup from random youtuber
10-minute Tutorial from GoodeReader
25-minute Tutorial from "Tech Tools Review"
5-minute Quick Setup from random youtuber
10-minute Tutorial from GoodeReader
25-minute Tutorial from "Tech Tools Review"
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