Kindle Paperwhite – Awesome!

I played with the nook (a couple of different ones) in a store and felt it was clunky. It would not navigate easily between homepage and books. This could have been bc it was a floor model, I’m not sure. I am used to my iPad and the perfect seamless experience that is and there was NO comparison. All of that & I don’t shop at Barnes and Noble. I always shop at Amazon.

I paid the extra $20 per Kindle so there are Zero Ads. It has Parental Controls that let me turn off access to web, amazon store and cloud (all purchases in my amazon account). It gets books only when I send them from my amazon acct. Sending books is simple and instantaneous over wi-fi. I loaded the entire Little Women by Alcott series on dd11’s in a couple of minutes. Books look great on it. I haven’t tried PDFs yet, but that isn’t a major issue for me.

We travel a lot and I take lots of books with me, these nifty little devices will cut my excess baggage fees, too!

I chose the Kindle Paperwhite over the basic because of the built in light that makes it easy to read in the dark. It is easier on the eyes than my iPad screen, IMO. It is not as seamless and perfect as my iPad, but it does what I want – being an ereader – very well and is much less clunky than the nook.

I should also mention that both are linked to MY amazon account. That way they can have the same book on both. In fact, I can access the same book on either Kindle, my iPhone, my iPad or any of the Mac computers in our home. That’s an unexpected bonus. Hymn study will be easy when everyone has the words and music in front of them.

Amazon gives each kindle an email address. This is to send documents to the device. I haven’t tried it yet, but it seems simple enough.

So, no ads, no Internet, no apps, no accidentally charging things on my amazon acct. just lots of great reading right at their fingertips! I believe that all applies to all Kindles, but I wanted the lighted display.

HTH,

Christie