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Originally Posted by knc1

There comes a time when, regardless of what you do, you can't squeeze anymore blood out of that rock.

It is too late now, but I was going to suggest the PW-3 (that is what Amazon is calling 7th. generation paperwhite).

My personal opinion is that it is the just-right mix between features and cost.

And the world seems to agree with me -
It is the most popular JB download, even though the PW-2 has been on the market nearly 18 months longer.

Also, I could not find any used PW-3 models for sale.
The owners are just not ready to give them up.
You can find used PW-2 models for sale, but the difference between new PW-3 and used PW-2 isn't all that great now.

If you don't want a lighted screen -
The KT-3 (8th generation Kindle Touch (Kindle Basic) ) is what Amazon marketing calls it.

That's what I have ordered. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1 All those features and maybe-soon-possible tricks sound fun so I'll keep an eye on MobileRead and play around if/when I have leisure time. All I really want, though, is reading without the painful-hands aspect of weight, holding a paper book open and turning pages while lying in bed, all the rest is bonus.

Originally Posted by Yourcat

Keep your Kindle offline and you wont get ads. Anyhow the Android Kindle apps ads are much more annoying than the K3/PW3 ads. Swipe2unlock may be annoying.

Too late: Better wait for Black Friday / Cyber Monday offers before buying something if this is possible, I spend £72 for my PW3 w ads.

But keeping a kindle offline would mean not getting any books / documents / webpages on it either.

I hadn't thought of Black Friday, but it's too far away anyway. The couple of nights without my kindle and this week without daring to turn wifi on - that's how I'm keeping the old device just alive enough, until the new one gets here - is enough of a wait for me!

Originally Posted by dordale

Order your new Kindle with ads. They don't show up while you're reading a book--only when you first turn it on. You can always pay later to have the ads removed if they truly do bother you.

I think I'd have removed them sooner or later, judging from threads I've seen where people compare notes about how annoying they are. Best I could have saved this week was £3 by ordering with ads, and paying later to remove them, but the extra minutes to do that was worth £3.

I even splashed out an extra £9 on a MoKo case. Such extravagance.

Thanks everyone for your advice. I'm not often here, but I do love this forum.