Kindle Paperwhite, yay or nay? Planning to gift it to my SO

[Raccatography]

Hi! 

I've been thinking about the Kindle paperwhite for weeks as a holiday gift to my SO. It's either that or the first hard bound book of Saga. She's into fantasy literature but she's read most of it already (I wish she was lying so I have more gift options but alas, she's legit). So she reads more from little publishers nowadays (or that's what I think she's doing)

 

Anyways. How's the Kindle? Is the book selection big enough that they also have -underground- stuff? I wish I knew the authors she's reading but I don't. Sad. Anyways, I hear you can load PDF's into it to read and annotate (highlight). How does that work if the PDF file has graphics? She's a masters student so she does quite a bit of academic reading too

 

I'm bothered whenever she uses a LCD screen to read her PDF's and eBooks. She already has bad vision and the LCD screens aren't helping.

[iavas]

I have a Kindle Paperwhite and I'm using it to read some novels. But reading .pdf files with many graphics and math formulas on it is really bad.

 

Yes, KPW could provide a paper-like experience to me, which is almost perfect - if your book only has text content. But the screen is too small to put a whole page of complex pictures and formulas on it - you must zoom in and out to read it well. And the E-Ink screen the KPW has, is very slow in reacting your zooming or sliding page activities. If your .pdf file is very large, KPW may even crash when you're trying to open it.

 

So if the book you want to read has little graphics, only some cover pictures or illustrations, then KPW will provides you an almost-perfect paper-like reading experience. But if you need to read many academic files, maybe a tablet will be a better option.

[ItsTheDuckAgain]

for reading books it will be great - for small ans simple PDFs it will be ok - it will not do well with complex pictures at all. depends on the usage - those things are designed to show books with the occasional cover / chapter picture.

[Raccatography]

5 hours ago, iavas said:

I have a Kindle Paperwhite and I'm using it to read some novels. But reading .pdf files with many graphics and math formulas on it is really bad.

 

Yes, KPW could provide a paper-like experience to me, which is almost perfect - if your book only has text content. But the screen is too small to put a whole page of complex pictures and formulas on it - you must zoom in and out to read it well. And the E-Ink screen the KPW has, is very slow in reacting your zooming or sliding page activities. If your .pdf file is very large, KPW may even crash when you're trying to open it.

 

So if the book you want to read has little graphics, only some cover pictures or illustrations, then KPW will provides you an almost-perfect paper-like reading experience. But if you need to read many academic files, maybe a tablet will be a better option.

 

5 hours ago, ItsTheDuckAgain said:

for reading books it will be great - for small ans simple PDFs it will be ok - it will not do well with complex pictures at all. depends on the usage - those things are designed to show books with the occasional cover / chapter picture.

Thank you guys. I have decided to get other things instead.