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Old 05-04-2019, 09:41 AM   #16
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Side by side in regular lighting good enough for an old paperback book and "built in LED" at minimum, the PW3 screen looks brighter and sharper. I'd guess it's IR (no extra layers) and the PW4 might be capacitive (reflected light attenuated twice and the transparent conductive layers diffuse the light).
A friend bought the PW4, I bought the PW3 in October, because I thought the PW4 sounded gimmicky and cost reduced. The raised bezel, IMO, helps keep your fingers off the screen.

I have an original Kobo H2O and my first eReader was a PW2, replaced by a Kindle DXG (thought it would be better for PDFs, it's pretty poor for PDFs, I use a 10" LCD tablet if reading a long PDF can't be avoided. PDFs are NOT eBooks!).

I also have the Sony PRS350. Really the 5" Sony PRS350 in pocket and 6.8" Kobo H2O original (better annotation export than any kindle) is a good mix. However the Kindle PW3 might be the best all round reading only eReader. I use Calibre, so can read ePubs on Kindle and Amazon Kindle mobi/AZW3 on the Sony/Kobo/Nook/Binatone etc in ePub.
Or export to RTF, fix stupid formatting and recreate an ebook.
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Old 05-04-2019, 11:23 AM   #17
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My girlfriend has a PW3 and I bought a PW4 back in December '18, I can therefore make a side by side comparison.

I much prefer the contrast, colour and sharpness of her PW3. Its really much better in my humble opinion.
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Old 05-04-2019, 02:45 PM   #18
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mergen3017, when you reply to a post, please quote it so we know who and what you are replaying to. Some of your messages make little sense because you did not quote.
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mergen3017, when you reply to a post, please quote it so we know who and what you are replaying to. Some of your messages make little sense because you did not quote.
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Forgot to reply but as can be seen in my profile I bought a PW3 some 2 weeks ago, thanks for the replies.
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Side by side in regular lighting good enough for an old paperback book and "built in LED" at minimum, the PW3 screen looks brighter and sharper. I'd guess it's IR (no extra layers) and the PW4 might be capacitive (reflected light attenuated twice and the transparent conductive layers diffuse the light).
A friend bought the PW4, I bought the PW3 in October, because I thought the PW4 sounded gimmicky and cost reduced. The raised bezel, IMO, helps keep your fingers off the screen.

I have an original Kobo H2O and my first eReader was a PW2, replaced by a Kindle DXG (thought it would be better for PDFs, it's pretty poor for PDFs, I use a 10" LCD tablet if reading a long PDF can't be avoided. PDFs are NOT eBooks!).

I also have the Sony PRS350. Really the 5" Sony PRS350 in pocket and 6.8" Kobo H2O original (better annotation export than any kindle) is a good mix. However the Kindle PW3 might be the best all round reading only eReader. I use Calibre, so can read ePubs on Kindle and Amazon Kindle mobi/AZW3 on the Sony/Kobo/Nook/Binatone etc in ePub.
Or export to RTF, fix stupid formatting and recreate an ebook.
The PW 3 uses a capacitive screen just like all of the other paperwhites.

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Old 05-12-2019, 02:29 PM   #22
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FWIW, the International Voyage Woot was selling recently works fine with US 3G. The 3G in the kindles isn't supposed to turn on unless you are actively trying to download and wifi fails. The only difficulty that I had was that Amazon Customer Service had to register my unit on their end - I kept erroring out when I tried to do it myself.
I can confirm this to be true. I just bought a new Voyage (International 3G+WiFi), from Woot.com. Tried to register it, but had no luck until calling Amazon Customer Service. Using the device's serial number, the Customer Service rep successfully registered the Voyage to my existing Amazon account. And I'm currently downloading 2 dictionaries using the 3G cellular connection.
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