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Amazon Kindle Paperwhite 16GB (newest model) – 20% faster, with new 7" glare-free display and weeks of battery life – Black vs Amazon Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition 32GB (newest model) – 20% faster with auto-adjusting front light, wireless charging, and weeks of battery life – Metallic Black

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Amazon Kindle Paperwhite 16GB (newest model) – 20% faster, with new 7" glare-free display and weeks of battery life – Black
#2 in E-Readers

Amazon

Amazon Kindle Paperwhite 16GB (newest model) – 20% faster, with new 7" glare-free display and weeks of battery life – Black

$159.99

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Pros

  • +Performs greatly in bright environment even without the frontlight
  • +Better for manga than colorsoft
  • +Way more crisp in black/white situations
  • +Manga looks great
  • +No-distractions format for reading books

Cons

  • -Auto brightness is counterintuitive
  • -Still not preferred over ipad for manga
  • -Can feel a bit awkward to hold and heavy with a case
  • -Fingerprint magnet
The auto brightness in paperwhite is kinda counterintuitive for me. It brightens up the e-ink screen when the ambient light gets brighter but it's a black and white e-ink which performs greatly in bri
Amazon Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition 32GB (newest model) – 20% faster with auto-adjusting front light, wireless charging, and weeks of battery life – Metallic Black
#9 in E-Readers

Amazon

Amazon Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition 32GB (newest model) – 20% faster with auto-adjusting front light, wireless charging, and weeks of battery life – Metallic Black

$199.99

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Pros

  • +Can play games (word search, tetris)
  • +Jailbreakable
I'll never be able to put my 12th-gen PW SE (jailbroken) down. This is especially bad that I discovered this site because I have a backlog of books I was trying to get through.