Thread: Troubleshooting Oxidized component? PW 7, doesn't work. Photo inside
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Old 11-27-2023, 12:28 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
Just a quick note. There is no PW7. The highest the Paperwhite goes is the PW5.
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Originally Posted by Quoth View Post
Isn't the PW3 called a Gen7 PW by Amazon?
See https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custo...MQC26VQQMM8XSW
They don't use PWx, they use Paperwhite (x Generation), so PW (7, 10, 11 th Generation) for PW3, 4 & 5.
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Originally Posted by Quoth View Post
But Amazon doesn't call it a PW3. How would a random user coming here with a question know without reading loads of posts?
JSWolf's point is valid. As you write, amazon doesn't use PWx, but for good reasons the mobileread community does.

Gentle corrections are one way that random users can learn the subtleties of kindle model identification and JSWolf's correction above is pretty much the gentlest to ever come from him.
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