Customer Ratings & Reviews

If you are solely looking for the best reading experience, and not looking for tablet functionality, the Kindle Paperwhite will serve your purposes very well. Besides providing a great reading experience with its dictionary, Wikipedia acess and Xray function, the in book search function works perfectly. The Glow light also works great and has a very large range of brightnesses.The text is very crisp, and the battery life s excellent. An excellent buy.

Speaking as a former skeptic, the Kindle Paperwhite changed my e-reading experience. For years, I've insisted to friends that a dedicated e-reader is unnecessary and reading on an iPad is more than sufficient. But I started to find I was reading less and, when I did, I suffered from dry-eye and strain. This light-weight, gadget, however, changed my experience. I'm reading consistently again and loving it. The only reason I'm giving this a 4-star review instead of 5 is the uneven backlighting and minor light-bleed. I've grown used to these quirks but they just shouldn't exist. Even with these issues, though, I'd recommend this to anyone who reads consistently but doesn't want to lug around or store physical books.

My vision is failing, but this is easy to read in any light. It fits nicely in my purse to take anywhere.

I have been a kindle owner for years, the original kindle had be great but I hated the absence of a backlight. and the kindle fire was similar to reading on my phone with hurting my eyes. so when the paperwhite was released I was intrigued. I finally received this as a Christmas gift and it's perfect. the battery can lasts weeks on a charge. There's no glare. my eyes never hurt. this is perfect for anyone who just wants to read ebooks. there is no headphone or speaker so audio books will not be able to be used. when typing the letters are a bit leggy but you get used to it. I did have a problem registering my amazon account but was able to contact amazon via chat and they fixed it within 5 min. definitely worth the money, I can now have books with me at all times.

The paper white screen is so easy to read in dark and light conditions. I read in bed before going to sleep and the screen brightness is low enough that it doesn't affect your melatonin production so it won't interfere with your sleep cycles. I used to use a tablet but it was too bright and bulky.

The Amazon Kindle Paperwhite was a gift to my husband. He is very happy with it for several reasons. Reading from the non-reflective screen is effortless, and he can adjust the size of the characters. He can take notes and highlight parts of the text. Two really neat features are: 1. If you take notes on a book that you borrowed from the library, those notes will still be there even after you return the book. So, if you happen to borrow the same book a few weeks later, when you open the book on your e-reader, your notes will be there. 2. In a complicated story with lots of characters, the e-reader keeps track of who is who. In a paper book, you would have to flip the pages back and forth to figure that out. No need to do this with the e-reader.

I purchased this for my wife who had been reading e books on her Samsung tablet with the Kindle app. She reads 2-4 hours each day and had been having headaches and realized it was from the glare. I purchased the Kindle Paperwhite 3 and she absolutely love it. It's light, turns pages on a touch and the back lighting is adjustable. So far I have no complaints

Great battery life, excellent screen to read. Help and directions could be better but still very happy

Easy to read in any light, Battery seems to last forever, size & weight easy to carry along everywhere.

The Kindle is convenient, easily read and the size makes the unit easy to carry along.

I am a hardcore HARDBACK book reader - it's always my preference. I always said I liked the "feel & size" of a "real" book over any electronic book reader. Boy was I wrong. I bought my Kindle on a whim while it was on sale, and I absolutely love it - I never imagined how much MORE I would read on the Kindle - I have gone through book after book after book, while a hardback still sits waiting on my nightstand to finish. It's a great size - throw it in my purse and read anywhere. The light is nice for darker reading situations. One of the best features in my opinion is borrowing books. You can borrow one book a month free through Amazon's Kindle Lending Library -- but you can borrow as many as your want from your local library (if it participates). That is where most of my reading has come from. I love the Kindle more than I ever imagined and recommend to any reader, especially those, like me, who swore on hardback "real" books!

This is my second Kindle and I'm very pleased. Makes reading so simple wherever you are choosing to do it. The ability to connect it with Goodreads is awesome, as I can never remember what books I'm looking forward to reading. It makes it super simple to figure out what to read next since it syncs your reading lists. The backlight is a great feature that I was missing out on with my first Kindle.

Fantastic e-reader. Very light and easy to read. Easy to travel with and easy to use.

Very powerful book! Regardless of the no. of books I purchased, I only carry 1 small, light unit!

Bought as gift for wife , she loves it , battery life great , easy to read in dark.

Small, light weight, bright ... this is the best Kindle yet.

This is the best thing I ever bought. Very lightweight and user friendly. Fits easily in my purse.

This is the second Kindle I have owned. Paperwhite appealed to me for its reader-friendly settings and backlighting. My first Kindle was a keyboard model with no backlight so I used a "clip in" light that fit in my M Edge case. I forsook the keyboard this time as I rarely used Kindle for web browsing. I also abandoned my fear of advertising to select the "special features?" model. Ads appear only at start up and are quickly and easily dispatched - there's only one ad so all you do is swipe up and it's gone. The new Kindle has exceeded my expectations. After I get books to put on it, I turn off the WiFi and the device will go for weeks without recharging. (Btw, I purchased an inexpensive Fintie case which shuts down Kindle when you close the cover and sends it to sleep - it's never really totally off.) You just have to remember to put your reading on the device itself rather than in the "cloud". The backlighting is awesome and the Paperwhite e-ink and font great for older eyes. My only complaint is that the "collections" setup is not particularly user friendly and the icons take getting used to on the toolbar. However, I am totally happy with this purchase and glad I updated to Paperwhite.

Overall I'm pleased with the Kindle Paperwhite. The text is sharp and easy to read, the memory is more than adequate for all the books I could want to have available. Battery life is excellent, going for weeks without charging. It does not get 5 stars from me though. The processor is a bit slow causing a time lag to go from screen to screen or to navigation pages, I also have Kindle on my Note 4 and appreciate the lag-free response of the Samsung. Navigation is a bit cumbersome since there are no physical buttons, the "BACK" button in particular is missed. Having a dedicated Kindle device with great battery life and an amazing screen makes the Paperwhite worth having for me in spite of a few areas where it can be improved.

Handy size, easy to read in all situations and we can even send other documents than books to it.