Using Wi-Fi, having the brightness high, and playing Audible books will run the battery down more. Battery lifeĪmazon promises six weeks of battery life when the Kindle is fully charged and used for half an hour a day with Wi-Fi off and the backlight set at 13, which is one step above half. Thankfully, Amazon’s Kindle Store is superbly extensive and will likely have every single book you search for, and there’s a superb feature called WhisperSync that other eReaders lack: if you own the eBook and audiobook (from Audible, an Amazon company, naturally) of the same title, you can pick up where you left off as the versions sync with each other. If you want to load free eBooks easily onto a device, don’t buy a Kindle, get a Kobo – an eReader that also lets you borrow books from your library via the OverDrive service, unlike Kindle. Though the Kindle has gone up in price from $89.99/£69.99 to $99.99/£84.99/€99.99 compared to the old model, you do now get double the storage of 16GB, which is more than enough for tens of thousands of eBooks. The brightness setting is a tap and swipe away in a book, which distracts when reading. I did find the absence of auto-brightness annoying – the backlight does not adjust depending on the ambient light like it can on the Paperwhite or several Kobos. I really have very few complaints about reading on this cheapest Kindle and found I could comfortably do so for hours. I also like you can quickly switch on Dark Mode to invert the colours and read white text on black background, which is best when reading in total darkness. You can also adjust boldness and size of font, and change the orientation, margin, alignment, and spacing to really hone how you want the pages of your book to look.
The default Kindle font is as legible as it ever was, but you have a choice of nine in all including one to aid dyslexia.
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