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Old 10-21-2012, 12:49 PM   #46
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Well, I'm sad to say, I can't say the same with my unit. I just returned a few hours ago from BestBuy where I bought a Paperwhite. The lower part of my screen and especially the lower center of the screen has a large pronounced gray blotch, much more so than with anything on my Nook STG. The Kindle is brighter, whiter, more contrast but even so with the blotchy screen, the Nook is far less distracting to read with.

I realize not everybody is experiencing the same problems, but for me this is looking very much like a return and I'm not sure I want to take the gamble on another one.
Can you post pics?
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Old 10-21-2012, 01:08 PM   #47
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My experience:
Read this thread here yesterday, went up to my local Best Buy. Nothing on display, asked an employee if they had any yet. He said not till next week, sounded pretty confident in it, so I didn't press it.

This morning it was still listed as available on the website, so I went back up there. Found a different guy, he climbed up to one of the high storage shelves and grabbed one. Looked like there were about 5 up there, which seems consistent to what other posters have said. He said he had to check the computer to see if he could sell it to me. He typed it in, and said their street date was 10/19, so everything was good.

I went through the setup, added a book and it's charging now. Screen looks good to me, so I'm happy. Coming from an OG nook, so it's definitely an upgrade for me.
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Old 10-21-2012, 03:04 PM   #48
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Do the retail Kindles not come charged like the ones from Amazon? I've noticed several mention charging their Kindle right out of the box. A forgien concept for someone who buys from Amazon and the Kindle comes with over half a battery.
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yeah, it was half charged. just wanted to go ahead and get it to 100%
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Do the retail Kindles not come charged like the ones from Amazon? I've noticed several mention charging their Kindle right out of the box. A forgien concept for someone who buys from Amazon and the Kindle comes with over half a battery.
I would assume they come the same, with the battery half charged. Maybe those that are charging them want to start with a full battery?
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Old 10-21-2012, 03:06 PM   #51
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Old 10-21-2012, 03:15 PM   #52
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They had the Paperwhite in my local BB circular, but none on display. I'm interested, but the lack of page turn buttons is a major shortcoming.
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I would assume they come the same, with the battery half charged. Maybe those that are charging them want to start with a full battery?
I find the first charge from Amazon always lasts longer then a full charge that I do myself unless I'm doing a ton of indexing. You're suppose to drain the battery first then charge for the first few times to get it to sync correctly with the battery gauge.
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Do the retail Kindles not come charged like the ones from Amazon? I've noticed several mention charging their Kindle right out of the box. A forgien concept for someone who buys from Amazon and the Kindle comes with over half a battery.
Just picked mine up at BB.... mine was approx 3/4 charged..
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Just picked mine up at BB.... mine was approx 3/4 charged..
How is it? Did you get a good one? I am getting anxious to try one but it have to be next week.
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I find the first charge from Amazon always lasts longer then a full charge that I do myself unless I'm doing a ton of indexing.
Yes, so true! My experience has been the same.
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Old 10-21-2012, 03:40 PM   #57
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How is it? Did you get a good one? I am getting anxious to try one but it have to be next week.
From past experience with BB I discovered that you have to wait 24 hours after purchasing an item before returning it. I don't know if that is universal with all BBs or just the one I dealt with. I placed an online order for in-store pickup, went to pick it up and discovered they had substituted another item for the one I bought. The one I bought was not in stock so they shouldn't have charged my CC but they did. Clearly their mistake, but I could not return it until the next day after 24 hours had passed. It cost me two trips to BB and I still had no item to show for it!

Long story short, you probably will not be able to test out the new PW in the parking lot and return it that day if it is bad. Pity as that would save you another trip to return it. I'm not sure how BB would react to a replacement request as that seems to vary per manufacturer.
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From past experience with BB I discovered that you have to wait 24 hours after purchasing an item before returning it. I don't know if that is universal with all BBs or just the one I dealt with. I placed an online order for in-store pickup, went to pick it up and discovered they had substituted another item for the one I bought. The one I bought was not in stock so they shouldn't have charged my CC but they did. Clearly their mistake, but I could not return it until the next day after 24 hours had passed. It cost me two trips to BB and I still had no item to show for it!

Long story short, you probably will not be able to test out the new PW in the parking lot and return it that day if it is bad. Pity as that would save you another trip to return it. I'm not sure how BB would react to a replacement request as that seems to vary per manufacturer.
That's odd my local best buy doesn't have a policy like that. I've return defective stuff within a few hours. I've had even C.S. open a box in front of it to test it to make sure it worked. I had to give them permission but no issues like you described.
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My Best Buy doesn't have that policy either, thankfully. I once bought an iPod car mount, took it to my car and played around with it, didn't like it, so I returned it on the spot with no issue.
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Is it perfect? No. As Picard says, there are four lights. This means that there are darker patches at the bottom of the screen. The flip side is that the Nook STG uses 8 lights, and winds up over-lighting the part of the page where the LEDs are, and that is more noticeable in practice.
Looks like Amazon and B&N each need to go to 6 LEDs on the next iteration.
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