If you’re coming off the back of a tablet, sure, you’ll find the typing experience laggy and the black and white depiction of graphic novels more than lackluster, but the Kindle is designed for voracious readers. Not dabblers. And its 300ppi screen is brilliant at emulating the feel and look of actual paper. Never hurting the eye like backlit displays and always encouraging you to pick up where you left off by displaying the cover of the last read book, even while in Sleep mode.
Font size, brightness and boldness can be manipulated to suit your style and based on your settings, you may have to tap more often for page flips. There is no Night Mode like on the more expensive models to change the colour temperature but you can choose Dark mode to invert text colour and make it even easier to read in those late-night-like conditions.
The front-lit e-Ink display is the best in the business but the way the pixels refresh every time you turn a page is decidedly 1990s. It doesn’t take long to acclimatise though, but it’s worth considering that the Kindle is for readers with real intent only.