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Originally Posted by barryem
I have a Paperwhite 4 and 2 Paperwhite 3's and a Voyage. The screens are all slightly different but I can't really see that any of them are worse than the others. I think it's just in the nature of lighted e-ink screens that each device will look a little different, even within the same model. So it's really hard to compare them.
Putting them all side by side they're all a little different. When I'm reading a book they're all the same.
Barry
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My experience is similar regarding the screens, but compared to the Voyage rather than the PW3, which I traded in toward the PW4. The PW4 and Voyage are slightly different, but not so much so that readability is worse / better. There is about a one-notch offset on the brightness of mine, so the PW4 on 10 is the same brightness as the Voyage on 9. Color temp is about the same for both. The Voyage has slightly better contrast, noticeable when side by side, but I read on the PW4 for two days before actually doing the comparison. If I hadn't put them next to each other, I'd have sworn the screens were identical.
The button being on the bottom and not recessed bothers me more than I expected. And I don't know why, I don't bump it by accident or anything, it just seems wrong somehow.
I'm not certain, but I feel like the Voyage is getting better battery life than the PW4, even accounting for initial indexing of the whole 4 books I put on it to start. Power saver mode puts it almost on par but not quite. I'm basing this on the fact that I read for almost the exact same amount of time each night, I haven't actually timed it.
My Voyage is still my precious. The PW4 will be my secondary reader. I can also take it out on the boat when I'm in Florida without worrying about it too much, and it will be good as a spare should the Voyage have an issue. (Or at least, those are the reasons I'm using to justify why I just had to buy one.)