[Illyria]

As I'd hoped, I already got mine today. It seems that I have been lucky because the lighting is perfectly even, no matter what brightness setting is chosen, much better in that regard than I had hoped. I will have to wait for the evening to see how I like it when reading in a mostly dark room.

I am a bit disappointed that the contrast seems to be worse compared to the black K4 and even the Keyboard. It kind of feels like reading through a pane of glass but I'm sure I will get used to it. On normal days I will probably continue to use my other Kindles and read with the PW on rainy days, at night, and when using public transport in the evenings.

I would not have thought so but in daylight (and it's rather overcast today) both my KK and black K4 look thoroughly white compared to the PW at medium light setting, which still looks yellowish. If I raise the brightness more, the PW becomes uncomfortable because of the "monitor effect". But I guess the yellowish tint is what makes it kinder to the eyes to read at night, so that would be okay and what I got it for anyway but still, during the day my other Kindles win.

The new PW is advertised as having better contrast but as I'm so relieved to have gotten a very uniform lighting, I will keep it and won't exchange it for the new one next month. Or I would see myself pining for better light every night until then...

One thing though, I cannot use my PW in any way while it is charging. The touchscreen just goes completely haywire, does not go to home, every attempted action ends up in changing the font size and then suddenly it flips through the pages in fast-forward. There is absolutely nothing I can do to control it and at first I thought it was defective until I unplugged it and everything was fine again. Is this normal? None of my other readers have this problem.

All in all, I'm satisfied with my new Paperwhite and cannot wait for tonight to see how it it fares then and how my eyes will take to it. But I can already see myself not using the Kobo Glo and Cybook much anymore. Compared to them, the PW clearly wins.