The improvements don’t rock the boat, but address some mild annoyances with the 2018 version. The only feature we miss from the Kindle oasis are those physical page-turning buttons, which we’d love to see introduced to the paperwhite. The all-new Kindle paperwhite is the best Kindle Amazon has made, narrowing the feature gap between the mid-range Kindle paperwhite and the high-end Kindle oasis enough that we can’t recommend the most expensive Kindle over the newest one. The verdict: Amazon Kindle paperwhite (2021) Unless you’re planning a one-way trip into the desert, there’s more than enough battery life here to last your entire holiday. The stated battery life of the all-new Kindle paperwhite is in the region of 10 weeks, which seems about right based on our testing, but it’s all moot when the Kindle lasts this long. The specialist e-ink screen doesn’t require any power to display a static page of text, only drawing energy when it needs to refresh what’s on the screen. The option to adjust the screen to be more blue or more amber also makes reading in bed more comfortable on the eyes.īattery life has always been enormous on the Kindle. There are no hotspots or distracting gradients – though if you were distracted in the past by uneven lighting across a page, we suggest you read something more engaging. The new model has 17 LEDs compared to the older model’s five, producing a more even illumination across the entire page. Read more: Best laptops 2021 – top-rated devices for WFHĪlso improved is the Kindle paperwhite’s performance in the dark. The previous Kindle paperwhite wasn’t quite small enough for a pocket anyway, so the move to a larger form factor makes sense here. In practice, it just feels nicer to have a screen that’s closer to the size of an actual paperback, but still compact and light enough to feel comfortable in the hand.
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