Thread: Looking to Buy New E-Reader
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Old 08-08-2014, 08:14 PM   #30
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Originally Posted by wwaldo View Post
Greetings all first time poster.

I have owned alot of kindles over the years and currently am using a Kindle Paperwhite 1st gen. I am looking to buy a new E-Reader as my PW is getting slower and slower. What is the latest and greatest E-REader with great clarity (reduce eye strain), back light (read in dark places) good storage (for many many books) and good battery life? Thanks.
The reason your Paperwhite is getting slower and slower is probably, based on the phrasing in your question, because you have too many books on it.

Yes it has room for lots of books but all Kindles have always slowed down when you get too many books on them. I've also read in forums for other ereaders that they have that problem as well.

I think your solution is to begin to think of the Paperwhite as a reading device and not as a mass storage device.

I sold my old Kindle Keyboard to a neighbor who now has about 800 books on it. I usually kept 15 or 20 books on it. When she asks me to show her something on the Kindle I'm always amazed at how much slower it is than it was when I had it. It's not so slow that it's a problem but it's very noticeable. I have a friend with a KK just like it with about a hundred books on it and it's far faster.

I keep my current book on my Kindle and a few books that I'm considering as my next book. That's it. And that's the real answer to your question, I think.

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