{"id":32016,"date":"2013-01-01T22:31:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T05:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/01\/my-kindle-paperwhite.html"},"modified":"2013-01-01T22:31:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T05:31:37","slug":"my-kindle-paperwhite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/01\/my-kindle-paperwhite.html","title":{"rendered":"My Kindle Paperwhite"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I guess I joked a few too many times about how cool the Paperwhite looked, because Margie bought one for me for Christmas, even while I had a perfectly good v3 Keyboard version. Silly goose …<\/p>\n

GOOD STUFF:<\/p>\n

– Compact form factor, even with a case on it. Much more pocketable.<\/p>\n

– A proper case (Amazon's, of course, but also MoKo's) will turn the unit off.<\/p>\n

– The touch interface works fine. I haven't missed the keyboard at all yet.<\/p>\n

– Greater importance given to book covers in the interface.<\/p>\n

– Crisp screen, more fonts for display, and the backlight works just great for low light situations.<\/p>\n

NOT-SO-GOOD-STUFF<\/p>\n

– The battery life doesn't seem as good. Not sure why, even with the backlighting turned off. Still playing with this.<\/p>\n

– Amazon has changed the OS to make the categories file unreadable by external programs, meaning that I can't use a Calibre plug-in to push my collection into categories I set up in that program, rather than the much less convenient manual options the Kindle allows. There are some possibilities I'm following up on to see if I can get around this in a somewhat less annoying fashion. \u00a0Since I like to have a huge library on the Kindle, rather than just the "dozen books I'm likely to read next," this is an issue for me.\u00a0<\/p>\n

– The Paperwhite comes by default with sponsored ads on — both on the screen saver and on the home page. It's $20 to disable that, and I decided to do so — I could afford the $20, and it was kind of annoying (imagine if every tenth page in your paperback was an advert). Even after I did that, though, I got Amazon ads — "Daily Deals" — in those spaces. It took a factory reset to make the change go through and give me an un-advertising Kindle.<\/p>\n

NET-NET?<\/p>\n

Me like. Thanks, Margie!<\/p>\n

Not sure what I'm going to do with my other Kindle — all the family members already have one, but I can still use it via Calibre (since I manually load stuff on anyway). Or maybe I'll refresh it and … find someplace I can donate it?<\/p>\n

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