This model costs about $190, and you're basically paying $50 over the following model for wireless charging, adaptive brightness, and more storage. Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition: The Bottom Line There are no buttons, but there is a USB-C charging slot and a wireless charging feature, which is something you mostly find on the best Amazon Fire tablets, but not on an e-Reader.Īt 32GB, the Signature Edition has quadruple the amount of storage available compared to the next model down, the basic Kindle Paperwhite. Where the Kindle Oasis has its eye-catching, asymmetric design, the Paperwhite Signature Edition resembles a typical e-reader: a flat rectangular tablet with a flush glass screen and plastic back. The greatest difference, of course, is in the hardware.

Many other internal features are similar as well, such as an IPX8 waterproof rating, adjustable warm light, and adaptive front lighting (though it has only 17 LEDs, less than half that on the Oasis). At 207g, it's marginally heavier, with a 6.8-inch display that also has a 300 PPI resolution. Now that the Kindle Voyager has been discontinued, the Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition (released in 2021) emerges as the second-most premium device in the Kindle lineup, following the Oasis.

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