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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
I noticed your avatar says PW2. Are there different versions of the Paperwhite?
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I have a PW1 and a PW2. The PW2 is slightly faster with a slightly better light and a couple of added software features that I don't really care about. I'm not sure I even remember what features the PW2 has that the PW1 lacks. In any case I suspect future upgrades will add them. They were identical feature-wise till the recent update on the PW2.
When I examine them the PW2 seems slightly improved. I can see the speed difference if I'm looking for and the tiny gray shadows at the bottom of the screen on the PW1 are gone on the PW2. That's out of the text area so I really don't care about it much.
In practice, while reading, I can't really tell the difference. It's something like the difference in excellent and superb.
If I was buying one today I'd get the PW2 because it's newer but if there was a price difference I'd be happy with the PW1.
Barry