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more. So, I must be the only person on

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Earth who had never really used a Kindle before I bought this one. Consider this

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a review not from a seasoned ebook reader perspective, but rather from

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someone who has mostly relied on dead trees for the enjoyment of novels in the

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past. Yes, I am just old-fashioned like

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that, I guess. The first thing I noticed about the Kindle was the guaranteed or

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certified frustration packaging. I laughed and then opened it up. Inside, I

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found a charging cable, but no wall wart, a quick start guide, which I

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didn't really need because the thing only has one button, and the quick start guide basically says push the button,

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and the paper weight itself. Basic specs wise, it's got a 6-in e-aper display

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with a 212 pixels per inch density, 16

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levels of grayscale for maps and illustrations, and a blue tinted

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brightness adjustable backlight. It's got 2 gigs of storage for up to 1,100

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books, plus free cloud storage of books on Amazon if you actually have more than

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that. And Amazon figures it'll do about 28 hours of continuous battery life. But

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with my low backlight preference and slow reading, I actually got more out of

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it than than that. So, let's start with the screen. E-aper is really really

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cool. The screen saver on it, which stays on at all times. Remember, it

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doesn't take power to maintain an image only to change it. actually looked like

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a sticker that was over top of the screen and I initially tried to like

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peel it off before realizing what a dunce I was being and turning the thing

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on. The screen does still have a bit of

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a yellow cast, but it's much better than other e-aper devices that I've seen and

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really is more white. When it came to benchmarking, um I don't know, Amazon

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says it's faster than the old one or something. I I don't know. I still

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couldn't type my wireless password at full speed. So, I figured, what is there

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to do with this thing other than read some books and see if the actual speed

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bothers me or doesn't bother me? The quick start guide made it easy to get

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started within about 8 minutes. It had walked me through all the functionality

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I needed, connected me to my Wi-Fi, and I had purchased a book. I decided to

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skip the whole Facebook and Twitter integration thing, though, so maybe that would have taken a bit more time. And

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then, of course, you can't benchmark without comparative testing. So, I read

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The Hobbit on my iPad 2 to cleanse myself of that second movie. I read I

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Hope They Serve Beer and Hell on Paper, followed by the first book and about a

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third or so of the second one of A Song of Fire and Ice on the Kindle. The

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higher display density contrasts sharply with other e-readers and significantly

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reduced my eye strain compared to my iPad 2. I see well closeup. So, smaller

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font sizes with fewer page flips is more comfortable for me as long as the

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resolution is high enough that the text doesn't look distorted. And I found the

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pixels weren't very noticeable to me unless I was closer than about 4 in.

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Speaking of page flips, one thing that drove me crazy was that referring back

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to things like maps or family trees in a

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fantasy novel like I was reading was nearly impossible and very flowbreaking

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compared to being able to keep my pinky in the appropriate appendix for quick

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reference or my thumb. I'm willing to trade my appendices, however, not my

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appendix, my appendices for the quick dictionary feature on the other hand

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that lets you look things up either in the dictionary or on Wikipedia and have

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it defined for you. That is extremely handy. The backlight was also super

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convenient. I found on a setting of about four or five, I couldn't tell it

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was on with the bedside lamp on in my bedroom, but when I ventured into the

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darkened house to retrieve a reading snack, the setting was perfect for that

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as well. So, I actually never really adjusted it. Now, Amazon touts this as

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optimal for reading with one hand, but I call bollocks on that. It can be as

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light as it wants to be, but it's not balanced. In portrait, the bezel is so

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narrow. In fact, if you look at the picture on Amazon's website, no one can

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hold it like that. They've got the thumb like way off to the side here. The bezel

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is so narrow that you couldn't hope to actually use it that way unless you're

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also resting it on your lap or bed or something. And for right-handed folks,

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this was really frustrating. The only way it works in landscape mode, here we

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go, is this way with the narrower side

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in your right hand. Most people are right-handed, Amazon. I mean, it's great for the lefties. They have that nice big

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bezel that I could actually legitimately call suitable for one-handed reading,

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but until Amazon gives you the option to go either way with landscape mode, I I

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can't really let that one go. I mean, I know a book is heavier, but the thing

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about it is that it's also inherently balanced unless you're just starting out

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or just finishing it up. So, I guess that's it. It's not the

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most complete review I've ever done, but the conclusion isn't likely to change

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with more experience with the product. So, while it doesn't compare to holding

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a book for me, and I think it's the biggest scam ever, that ebooks cost the

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same as physical books given their digital distribution cost savings and

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the fact that they don't let people lend them more than once for 14 days, which

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is ridiculous. I'll still probably be

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continuing to buy books on Kindle rather than paper. Your mileage may vary, but

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the space savings and convenience of only having one device to keep track of

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outweighs the superior experience of the

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smell of paper and turning actual pages for me. Thank you for checking out this

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video on the Kindle Paper White 2013 edition. Don't forget to like this video

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know books or ebooks, which do you

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