While we've yet to try the newest entry, we did get our hands on the 2024 Kindle Paperwhite. The Kindle Paperwhite remains as good as ever, even if it's missing some updates we were hoping for.

That’s especially so when comparing the basic Kindle against the more luxe Kindle Paperwhite (and its fancier Paperwhite Signature Edition variant), which also got a refresh for 2024.

The Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition, despite the fancy name, is a simple device. It's exactly the same as the fifth-generation Kindle Paperwhite, but it costs $40 more and has four upgrades ...

But is it worth paying more for the Kindle Paperwhite over the standard model? I’ve used both ereaders over the last few weeks to get to the bottom of the differences. Here are the key takeaways.

The first thing I did when I got Amazon's new Kindle Paperwhite (2024) was to fire up my previous generation Kindle Paperwhite (2021) and try to determine how much better the new version is.

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