Although I confess that I am not very much a fan of Kindle, it is an offer that is attractive even to me: only today Amazon has decided to offer its Basic Kindle for only € 59,00.
Obviously not the Kindle Paperwhite (Kindle's newest star) but he is a really attractive reader and I recognize that they are good readers, although for me they lack some characteristics that I consider important in a reader. However, it cannot be denied that it has an excellent screen, a very adequate size and a fairly low weight that make it very comfortable and manageable.
I leave you the basic technical characteristics to give you an idea of what this device can offer:
- Screen 6 ″ electronic ink cartridge, with 16 shades of gray.
- Dimensions 16,6 cm x 11,4 cm x 0,87 cm and a weight of 170 grams.
- Ability to storage: 2 GB not expandable.
- Connection USB and wifi.
- Duration of the battery: approximately one month with Wi-Fi disabled and an average reading of half an hour a day.
- Formats which supports: AZW3, AZW, TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI and PRC in their original format; HTML, DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP by conversion.
- The box includes the reader, USB 2.0 cable and Quick Start Guide.
As I already told you, I am not a big fan of Kindle, not because of a quality issue (which I insist is very high), but because I prefer readers with other features that Kindle do not have: support ePub, support audio files (especially the TTS function), greater storage capacity, possibility of expanding the memory using cards ...
However, it has other options that I find very attractive such as dictionary lookup, syncing with our Amazon account, parental control, bookmarks, notes and underlines, etc. Parental control seems extremely interesting to me, in fact it is something that I miss in other much more expensive and "complete" readers.
It is certainly a basic but very interesting reader which, at that price, is even more interesting. So if you haven't made up your mind yet and you have a limited budget, don't miss out on this offer because it's really worth it.
More information - Kindle Paperwhite, Amazon's backlit e-reader
Source - Amazon.com