This navigation bar follows you into books and periodicals, where only the drop-down menu that pops out of the three horizontal lines may change. The same top bar hosts a series of icons for home, back, backlight control, shopping, search and settings. Once you swipe past the ad-based lock screen, the home screen still lists recent titles as thumbnail images of the book covers. For daytime reading, we preferred the light turned off.Ĭlick to EnlargeAmazon's Kindle Paperwhite interface hasn't changed since last year. We found a medium brightness setting between 10 and 14, out of 24, seemed to work just fine in any situation. However, the measurements that we take - from the middle and all four corners - were much more uniform on the Paperwhite. With an average display brightness of 333 lux, the Paperwhite's display is much dimmer than the Nook GlowLight's score of 490 lux. When viewing a picture of Kate Hudson on the Paperwhite, her skin tone looked much more natural and better defined than on the Nook GlowLight. When viewing 'The Casual Vacancy' on the new Kindle Paperwhite, old Paperwhite and new Nook GlowLight with all backlights at 100 percent, we preferred the uniform light of the new Kindle, but the Nook's type appeared slightly sharper. The Paperwhite also has a next-generation built-in light, according to Amazon.

While opening and turning pages, the new model opened a book about a second faster than the old model, but page turns were nearly identical.

That's identical to the previous generation Paperwhite and the new Nook GlowLight.Īmazon boasts that the new Paperwhite sports a 'new display technology with higher contrast and better reflectivity.' The e-tailer also claims the touch screen offers 19 percent better responsiveness than the previous model.Īmazon claims that the new Paperwhite's faster processor should improve page turn speeds by 25 percent, but we didn't find that sort of delta in our testing. Click to EnlargeThe new Kindle Paperwhite features a 6-inch (1024 x 768-pixel resolution) screen with 212 ppi that displays 16 levels of grayscale.

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