While Amazon introduced an updated version of its flagship Kindle Paperwhite live day, it took the undemanding way prohibited -- in the same way as all, tweaked internals, improved software and a little better lighting get something done not a thrilling e-reader receive. The 2013 Paperwhite wasn't bad by a few stretch, hardly a small piece boring. Promptly, a day afterward, Amazon has plunk unruffled a person who reads that's something but. Say hello to the Kindle Voyage.
On paper, the brand new Voyage sounds like a domestic run. Lesser footprint? High-resolution screen? Something akin to brute page-turn buttons? Sign me up! It's Amazon's to begin with beyond doubt premium Kindle, if you count the dodo with the purpose of was the DX, and this stage around the company's catering to die-hard readers. But here's the real question: Does somebody really need a $199 e-reader (with ads, veto less)? Here a word, fair enough.
HARDWARE
The live stage Amazon's higher-end Kindles got a restore was two years since, so it's veto blow with the purpose of the Voyage represents the the majority dramatic overhaul since with the purpose of stage Amazon gave up on brute keyboards. Moved out is the Kindle's longstanding curved aesthetic: The Voyage borrows considerably from the Kindle Fire's design language, with a other gaunt back fashioned prohibited of magnesium and capped with glossy black plastic. The magnesium, in the function of it turns prohibited, was a really fine call. In the same way as a week of tossing the Voyage here and prohibited of my bag (which is sort of a implement minefield, to say the least) in attendance weren't a few scuffs before smudges with the purpose of a hardly any seconds of possessed resistance couldn't take charge of. Alas, the Voyage's lusterless rear (which is somewhere the power button promptly lives) is a pull in support of your greasy fingerprints, so evaluation and drinking chips is inadvisable if you're stickler in support of appearances.
With the purpose of magnesium skeleton makes the Voyage a a small amount lighter, too, which certain of you determination notice other than others. If (like me!) you're the sort of person who grips an e-reader here solitary worker, with a pinky serving to stabilize things, with the purpose of load reduction makes a surprisingly major difference. Oh, you're a two-hander? You probably won't be there able to make itself felt.
Other importantly, the 6-inch E Ink show off is ultimately flush with the time-out of the Voyage's body. This might not sound like the biggest recovery -- it's not like the Paperwhite's recessed screen and raised bezels were particularly inconvenient -- but it helps the Voyage feel with a reduction of like a bunch of components cobbled unruffled and other like a single, unified sample of kit. Honestly, though, amid the lack of raised bezels and with the purpose of angled back, the unbroken craze bears other than a leaving resemblance to live year's Kobo Aura (I can hardly imagine Kobo's Japanese overlords chortling with glee).
I'll be there scrupulous: I still yearn in support of the days while the deep, satisfying click of a brute button punctuated the walk of a send a message, but individuals days are unmistakably done and Amazon's PagePress is approaching in the function of worthy a replacement in the function of we might acquire. (Don't anxiety, you can still tap on the screen to trade pages.) The unbroken craze is undemanding sufficient: Press the protracted vertical line on either aspect of the screen to walk the send a message, and the dot sitting more than it to flip back solitary. By default, both vibration and sensitivity are lay down to form (which is a lot responsive), but you better believe I cranked both options to penetrating here search of a other button-like experience. The side effect? It's still not in the function of tactile in the function of a brute button, but it's awfully close.
Show off AND PERFORMANCE
There's veto two ways approaching it: The Voyage's screen is downright out of the ordinary (I anxiety my pictures don't get something done it justice). The 6-inch show off manages to squeeze here a round 300 pixels for each edge your way, bringing it closer to definite ink on paper than a few other E Ink screen I've seen (Kobo's Aura HD has a superior screen, so the pixel density in attendance doesn't quite match the Voyage). I badly spent the better part of an afternoon hardly sort of marveling next to it, firing up altered books, fiddling with typefaces/font sizes/margins and by and large tiresome to attain certain arcane combination with the purpose of made the onscreen text look suboptimal. Veto dice: This craze is a winner, especially while you consider how awful my eyes are.
Traditional e-readers include not at all been ideal in support of images, but the Voyage (generally) handles them with gusto. Consider the humble graphic novel: Thumbing through Bryan Lee O'Malley's Seconds wasn't bad next to all on the Paperwhite, with lovingly crafted images and text boxes pending through unmistakably. It wasn't until I plunk it after that to the Voyage with the purpose of I realized come again? I was missing -- details with the purpose of were planed done on the Paperwhite were undemanding to site on the Voyage's high-res show off. A menu with the purpose of appeared smudgy and slurred on the Paperwhite came through with surprising clarity on the Voyage; I might make itself felt Katie's restaurant was serving "smoked cornish hen, buttermilk mashed tubers & whipped pork fat and pickled asparagus," and with the purpose of was rather than I zoomed here. Effortlessly, digital comic die-hards be supposed to invest here a fine tablet, but the Voyage is veto stoop. Certain would argue with the purpose of tiresome to stuff other pixels into an E Ink screen is excess. Amazon unmistakably doesn't acquisition with the purpose of argument, and in support of with the purpose of I'm very obliged.
Surprisingly, the screen feels a a small amount altered too, since Amazon chemically engraved the come out to reduce glare. With the purpose of enhanced tumbler diffuses light well, but the effect isn't in the function of pronounced in the function of I'd hoped -- the Voyage dispenses with glare simply a little other effectively than the Paperwhite does. Doesn't sound eminent, I know, but I've not at all had an back issue while too much sunlight threw a wrench into my afternoon evaluation diplomacy. Speaking of lighting, the Voyage has a brand new trick up its casing: It promptly has an ambient light sensor so it can adjust backlighting level inevitably. It installation, albeit a a small amount indolently, taking a hardly any seconds to adjust to your surroundings. You might think all these lighting tweaks would include certain sort of contact on battery life, but the Voyage seems approaching in the function of efficient in the function of the time-out of its people. Amazon says you'll be there able to squeeze approaching six weeks prohibited of a single charge... Assuming you're simply evaluation a partially hour a era. My week of taxing and evaluation has been way other rigorous than with the purpose of, though, and the Voyage is still execution here in attendance with approaching 30 percent not here.
Since an e-reader's show off is so intrinsically together to how well it performs overall, let's dig a a small amount deeper into how the Voyage runs now. Amazon isn't intense on conversation approaching come again? Kind of central processing unit hums away inside with the purpose of shell, but overall it's a lot snappy... Especially compared to the big Paperwhite I had on worker. Rotating pages, popping back to the domestic screen and poring through the Kindle hoard on the Voyager were by and large way sooner than on my 2012 Paperwhite, though the special full-screen refresh evened the compete at times. Interestingly sufficient, certain things -- like rotating the screen on and sour -- took near the same amount of stage.
If you've not at all used a touchscreen e-reader, you be supposed to know E Ink's natural slowness resources you'll need to reorganize how you cooperate with campaign like the Voyage. You'll include to resist the temptation to type in the function of fast in the function of you get something done on a smartphone, in support of solitary. It's a tough inclination to shake, but you don't include a alternative. Let's say you're tiresome to peck prohibited "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the side of the earth." The touchscreen is touchy sufficient to register all individuals taps (you can accompany the the ivories lighting up in the function of proof), but move too quickly and you'll wind up with gibberish here your search box. And in the function of much in the function of I have individuals PagePress controls, the time-out of the Voyage lets individuals a small amount guys down a small piece; if you're here a get a move on flipping through pages, you'll notice with the purpose of not all press/vibration corresponds to a send a message walk. PagePress aside, these are issues with the purpose of plague hardly approaching all touch-friendly e-readers. We're still a protracted way sour from the e-reading holy grail -- a digital evaluation experience that's in the function of immediate in the function of thumbing through a real sign up -- but all things considered, the Voyage is a step here the well direction.
In the same way as living with the Kindle Voyage in support of a round week, two indubitable truths befall plain. To begin with, it's the paramount e-reader you can acquisition well promptly. Instant, it's plus the the majority expensive, and therein falsehood the rub. Who exactly does Amazon expect determination earnings $199 in support of solitary of these things? In the function of far in the function of I can make itself felt, the people here Seattle are gunning in support of colonize like me: Difficult to please purists who wish for in the function of a small amount compromise in the function of potential. We friendship books (sometimes to a fault), and we'll plug next to nothing until the line amid the screens we conduct and the tomes we adore is indistinguishable. Here's come again? It boils down to: If you're an e-reader buff (we exist!) before a bibliophile who yearns in support of paper here a earth that's swiftly leaving it behind, acquisition the Kindle Voyage. It doesn't take much to grasp come again? The Voyage brings to the index, but it does take a a selection of kind of drip to look next to solitary and decide it's worth the same amount of money in the function of a without a glitch fine Paperwhite in support of manually and a crucial Kindle in support of mom.
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