The New Amazon Kindle Paperwhite Review & Reaction | Is It Worth The Upgrade? (2021 Model)

Once again, Mike talks about the newest Kindle, how it compares to the previous model, and if it is worth the upgrade.

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0:00 Introduction & Unboxing
3:58 What Is It?
4:38 What Makes it Good or Bad?
17:46 Worth The Upgrade?
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[aqaljundi]

Nothing better than drinking a cup of tea and watching a mike video

[kiera_rdh]

I’m finally upgrading my like 4th edition kindle that I first got in 2015. So excited and your review made me confident that the upgrade is worth it!

[Riverpeth]

Calibre and screen covers is a lot smoother now. Got my new Paperwhite about a week ago and after some tinkering it's been flawless, really depends on which format you side load, but it's been great. One quick tip people can try if their artwork disappears is to plug it back into your computer, select update cached data under device, and then unplug, seems to do the trick.

[lauragoodrich]

I love my Oasis. I hope they don’t discontinue it or at have a kindle in their line up with the page buttons. I use the buttons all the time.

[spyridon]

Just got it today! It is my first Kindle and i must say i love it!

[ginagee]

Someone doesn’t watch chubbyemu lol! Silica gel packs are delish!

[Ghaffar_KH]

Waiting for this to become his top 3 watched videos haha.

[ainedunne]

Wish they’d improve how you can organise your book collection on the kindle

[AnnamariaSedai]

I like my Oasis — and that warm light feature was absolutely transformative! But gosh have I been missing the PaperWhite size, form factor, and feel. Oh man am I excited about this newest Kindle now! This might just have to go on my Christmas wish list, especially since I can re-gift the Oasis to my teen 😃😃😃 THANKU Mike, your reviews are next level as usual! ❤️

[CraiuRemusArmand]

Can confirm the water thing, dropped mine multiple times in the tub, works just fine.
Fun fact: the original Paperwhite review was how I originally found your channel.

[RealHumanBeanU]

This sounds so good but the lack of buttons is such a dealbreaker...especially as a Lefty.

[SylviaSilver]

They also give discounts & trade in options. I traded in 2 previous versions of the kindle paperwhite and received a $55 gift card & an additional 20% off towards the purchase of another kindle. It was really well worth it for around $60. The day I received it, I messaged customer service & asked them to please remove ads. They did it no questions asked. I love everything about this new kindle. Great Video!

[RaabStephan]

I bought the Kindle Voyage (2014) second-hand for $20, and it's amazing.
It has 300ppi resolution, flush front display, ambient light sensor, 5 LEDs, and it even has the button on the back :P

[kaizacorp]

I'm a Kobo guy, but I appreciate the review Mike! Love the power button passion!

[Johnny]

Great review Mike,

I upgraded and IMHO if you use the kindle a lot it's worth it, the warm light is much nicer to use and the added size means I can increase the font size while still having a enough text on the screen. I think I have bumped up it 2 font sizes now over what I used on the previous paperwhite.
I feel the new device is the perfect size, the previous gen always felt a little too small.

Adverts: Be cautious on this, there are reports on redit etc.. that no matter how much of a good customer you are, Amazon will not remove the adverts for free and may not even remove them if you are willing to pay, if the adverts may bother you it might be better to just stump up the extra.

Power Buttom: Yep its in a stupid place but the reason is because of the board location, moving the button up top would require a ribbon extension which would either increase production costs or difficulty (according to the internet), IMHO what they could have done to prevent accidental presses would simply make the button flush.

[chickie]

I might see what it goes for on Black Friday or cyber Monday. The biggest selling feature for me is the warm light. I currently have a 2 year old kindle paper white. I barely read at all before I had my kindle! Now I read almost every day. 😊

[nataliersutton]

I've had a Paperwhite 2nd Gen since 2014 and until now there wasn't anything different enough for me to want to upgrade. It's finally time though! The warm light, USB C, wireless charge, turn speed, so many additional LEDs, and screen size upgrades are all enough to make it worth it! Plus I'll finally have those other features newer ones have that mine currently doesn't like the extra waterproofing, flush bezels, software updates (book cover screensavers!), PPI increase, etc.

Definitely pumped to have this on the Christmas list!

[laguy]

If you are upgrading contact Amazon first, I’ve had them offer to pay me for my old one if I am no longer needing it. It’s not going to be a lot but it will help.

[meghanjackson]

For me, that warm light and faster processing was well worth upgrading. Appreciate your Kindle videos — thanks for your thoughts. In Canada, we don’t have the ads, but we also don’t have the Bluetooth capability (not a dealbreaker for me) or the Libby download to Kindle option (Rakuten Kobo owns the library software here). My kids have Kobos so they can connect to the library and borrow books.

[cindymcbride]

For the cover art and calibre I found that editing the Metadata on the book file the way you want it, and then converting the file to Azw3 format allows for the custom covers to work on my Oasis. I read fanfiction alot on my Oasis so I make covers. Plus in your kindle with airplane mode off, convert files, send azw3 to kindle, eject, turn on airplane mode, reconnect your kindle, and the covers should be there. Hope that helps someone.