The Kindle paperwhite is a more premium version of the basic Kindle (£69.99, .uk), and as such it’s got a few more useful features included. Read on for a full run-down of the differences between each Kindle, how they measure up, and which you should buy. So which Kindle is best? That depends how much you want to spend, how often you’ll use it, how big your hands are, whether you usually read in bed, and if you’re about to fall into a swimming pool.

And while Kindle might have the market cornered, it’s not the only pony at the rodeo – check out our round-up of the best ereaders if you’re a Bezos-averse bookworm. Remember, with any Kindle it’s still possible to download ebooks from places besides Amazon’s own store, or even borrow them from your local library. There are also kids’ versions of two of these Kindles, which are identical to the basic versions but come with an added children’s book subscription and a kid-friendly cover. With the two cheapest Kindles you can pay £10 less and have product advertisements appear on the lock screen (or pay £10 more to remove them, if you want to think of it that way). They store tens of thousands of books, you can buy and download new ones almost instantly, they have battery life measured in weeks, and they let you do things like highlight passages, adjust the font size and look up word definitions as you read.Īmazon’s range includes four Kindles at four price points, each designed with different kinds of readers in mind. This means the Kindle is as comfortable to read as any book or magazine, while still retaining all of the most useful features of reading on a tablet. Rather than showing text on a self-illuminating screen, the Kindle uses a special e-ink display illuminated by surrounding light, giving it the appearance of ordinary, physical paper. The Kindle might look like a regular tablet, but like all e-readers it uses a completely different type of display technology.

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