One major con Is that if you have only just started reading, many of the available books will be too advanced for you.

You could just google this you silly sausage.

but not the same guarantee

​Thanks. Good to know if you can't make it to a John Lewis :smiley:

Same price at Argos and Amazon

Same price at Argos and Amazon

Is the paperwhite worth paying twice as much as the regular?

Our paperwhite died after 13 months (from Argos) so Amazon didn't want to know. Definitely buy from JL I'd say.

Thanks for posting just had one delivered this morning from John Lewis at the old price so I've put an undersale online claim form in so they should refund me £22 :smiley:

Don't we get a 2 ywar warranty as standard anywhere on electricals in the EU anyway?

As for those wondering why on earth you would pay all the extra for the Voyage, the processor is much much faster and as such the kindle suffers zero lag when doing anything, also the build is much higher quality and you can squeeze the edges to turn pages etc, its just a better experience, and if you really are into kindles then its worth it.. the OASIS is very high priced at the moment but i'm sure that is an even better experience.

Had my Paperwhite for ~3 years now. Brilliant device. Definitely go for the Paperwhite if your budget can stretch to it - the ability to read day or night, in cars, in bed with partner without disturbing them etc. is worth the extra in my opinion!

I haven't bothered as I am 100% certain they will ask "Have you got your receipt?" and my negative response is likely to bring the conversation to a swift end.

I have the old style does anyone no if I can move books from one kindle to another?

Also what is the difference between the voyager and paper white other than approximately £50?

Paperwhite WiFi is the best vfm in my humble but respected opinion.

Wished they made mini versions like the kobo one that came out, pocket / mobile phone size, but never did.

Note that the latest generation of Paperwhite has a slightly higher resolution than before, but this unexpectedly makes the font sizes a little smaller if you've upgraded.
And it's not a back light as with tablets, but leds that shine over the front of the screen.

Recently started reading.

Can someone give me the pros and cons of each of these plus just reading on my Nexus 7?

My wife has had a Kindle Keyboard for many years now, and it was replaced around the 20 month mark with no problems..

Actually the new Paperwhite has the same resolution as the voyager, and the voyager has a reflective surface. So it is a matter of taste.

Tesco had the Paperwhite at 79.99 a while ago. I am sure prices will drop again, certainly when the next generation comes out. So you could hold off until then.

Hey, you're right! They replaced the paper white, and I didn't keep up. I'm tempted by the paper white, as my old 3G one gave up the ghost a year ago. I use an ipad as an ereader atm but it's not the same.

Amazon just exchanged my faulty 18 months old monitor that had one year warranty... you just need to ask

Good price not long got the wife the paperweight from Amazon for just over 100 she loves it much better then the old keyboard one she had for a few years

Hi, is it possible for me to move .pub files to the Kindle regular?

Managed to get a Voyage for £102 (they offered a 25% discount because my Kindle Keyboard was broken)

i was going to offer the alternative idea of Nook. Which i find superior. But they packed up and left UK. Now Sainsburys keeps our books in nooks.

voyager is not much of a step up IMO from paperwhite, oasis though, is how all kindles should have been designed

I like it that Amazon have gone back to puting buttons on the Kindle with the Oasis. I still use the older model from a few years ago that came with buttons as I prefer it to touch based. I know more recent models are faster, have a higher resolution etc but not really found a desperate need to upgrade.

The Kindle Oasis looks like a beautiful, well-designed thing but the £270 - £330 price is RIDICULOUS:confused:

One major con Is that if you have only just started reading, many of the available books will be too advanced for you.

You could just google this you silly sausage.

2 advantages I see Voyage has over the Paperwhite is that the Voyage have Pagepress buttons and also the screen is flush.

Not a big deal to alot of people if they don't mind those extra features and want to save a few quid and go for the Paperwhite.

Oh, let me check... yes, I emailed several times and had an online chat with them.
The 'best' they would offer is a £50 discount on a Voyager model.
No, with the e-readers, there are some known faults, and I tried all the forum advice before nicely asking Amazon.
A 2-year warranty all the way.

Does Argos take a redacted bank/card statement showing the retailer name as proof of purchase?

http://www.tradingstandards.uk/extra/news-item.cfm/newsid/787

Kindles are fantastic but after many years I recently bought my wife the Kobo Aura H2O, if you’re considering purchasing the voyage I would certainly recommend the H2O the cost is around the same and it provides a bit more flexibility of where you can read as its waterproof.

For example if you enjoy reading in the bath.

Of course it depends if you have hundreds of books and tied into Kindle, but for those who are not its worth considering where you want to use your device

worth noting that there's no text 2 voice on current kindle paperwhite .. for a lot of people decent text 2 voice really helps make the reading experience more efficient(or possible) for a good number of people - sadly Amazon protecting it's audible audiobook revenue stream :-(

Thanks, been waiting for this to come up - just ordered Voyage from John Lewis, free 2 year guarantee.
Voyage is the best reader bar none.
Tiny and light, crisp text, page turn buttons, and don't forget your Fintie superlight cover that turns it on when you open the front and off when you close it.
Keep it in airplane mode to stop Amazon updating software without you knowing and put all yr books on through Calibre, brilliant free program that will even convert from epub for you.

I prefer the Dandy to the Beano, can't wait till Thursday for my read.

What? Nothing is better than eating pickled onions, except cicobuff's very own pickled shallots.

So, I post the EXACT same deal direct with Amazon and they ALL get voted freezing cold. Someone comes along AFTER I posted mine, and they get voted HOT? Makes very little sense.

::innocent::3 It's probably personal! Do you have the same problem with women? ;-)

More likely because John Lewis has a 2 year warranty and there are a lot of Amazon haters on here.

Ah I see. It just strikes me as odd that an Amazon post gets stricken down, but the same post for an Argos Kindle at same price is voted up. I can understand somewhat this one I guess with the two year warranty, but Amazon hating and downvoting is just stupid. Lol

Will the deal be available on the 25th?

Very strange voting here. I really strongly suggest not taking it to heart.

WOOOOOT? what about playing mario on a hand-held console in dim light in your own living-room, alone on a rainy day while listening to music and having tea and cookies ?

May I suggest you enrol for a course on understanding the English language as written.

Played Mario Kart on a hand held console in dim light back in 2000 on a GBA, it was always the dim light that frustrated....pickled shallots never frustrate. :man:

This would be such a great deal if only the OS was Android and it was rootable. Heat added anyway for people who don't mind being tied in to the Amazon ecosystem.

Heh, I'm a big boy, I just find it strange how people downvote lol.

Has anyone managed to get the adverts removed (for free) on these if bought outside of Amazon? . . . two year warranty is appealing.

We have gone through a few Nooks over the last few years.

It says "free delivery on this item"

any idea if the same offer has the same expiry date on amazon? thanks

Bought 2 Kindle Paperwhites @ 8.00am Saturday via Amazon for free prime next day delivery.......7.00pm Saturday I go online see them reduced by £22 each......[turns out I got a email 9.15am saying they had been reduced in price,

Got Amazon to give me a ring back and got £44 credited to my account

I bought them because my two "rooted" Nook Glow Lights e-readers stop downloading books because Barnes Noble withdrew support for the E-readers in UK .......Anybody know of a "workaround" for that problem ....woud like to pass em on to extended family members in working condition.

If they are rooted, why are you even slightly bothered about daft decisions by B&N? I have a rooted Glowlight and it works as well now as it did the day I got it, I can pull whatever I want from the internet to read, what exactly is the problem you are having?

Well my Nook just stopped working whilst in Tenerife last December, just went blank screen , so I just hit reboot and it reset to factory default.Wifes was still working fine. Anyway only use them when on holiday, going to Maderia next week so thought I better re root my Nook. with Root Manager

Rooted, connect to my wireless network, but I could not download the kindle app, just would not connect. So tried to down load new Kindle books I had bought on my laptop, to the wifes Nook. They showed on the Nook but hit download and it started for a second then said download interupted. So I just thought as I can down load with no problems onto both Kindles, it must be down to Barnes Noble withdrawing support. But as yours are working fine that cannot be the case.

Got to admit the Kindle App on the Nook ,very dark to see libary unless back light on but reads books fine. That said I prefered the more egnomic design, and weighted balance for a more comfortable hand hold. Plus page click buttons [reading BN offerings. Plus you can disconnect WiFi, and also switch the machine Off, rather than just going to blank screen with the Kindles , hence battery can last for months on a NOOK

Any pointers appreciated Mex5150

Any suggestions as best quality/value for cases for the paperwhite . . . so many on ebay.

I'm assuming you also installed gaps when you routed, so the only other difference could be Amazon increased the minimum Android build with the latest version of the Kindle app (although I have it installed, I never use it, I strip the DRM nonsense and use a different reader), if this is the case, side-loading an older version will not help as Amazon have recently changed the encryption on their DRM, so older versions of the app wouldn't be able to read anything DRM'd not already stored locally from before the change.
This would seem to verify that the Amazon DRM update is indeed the cause of the issue.
The Nook never had support for kindle, you had to kludge it yourself after rooting.
That's because the app was not designed to be used on an E-Ink device.

I had forgotten about the DRM change, this does make it a little trickier. Your options to continue using the Nooks are to sideload an old kindle apk to the one you just rooted, and stuck to books from Amazon that that aren't DRM encrypted, or get whatever you like, strip the DRM yourself, then use a better reader app anyway.

HTH


~Mex

Cheers Mex I'll look into the options you mentioned