If you had seen us at about this time last year that the e-reader race would certainly be heating up entering the 2012 holiday season, we would certainly have disagreed. If anything, 2011 seemed like the start of the end. Spurred on by the tablet explosion, business like Amazon, Barnes & Noble as well as Kobo were looking to that space for inspiration, introducing flagship gadgets on which reading was simply one of numerous features. Heck, also the readers themselves started to look more tablet-like, with numerous abandoning of physical keyboards in favor of infrared touchscreens.

But here we are at the end of September, and this item group has actually never ever been more amazing. Back in Could, Barnes & Noble caught our hearts and midnight reading marathons with the Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight, a wordy name for a terrific little device that made reading in bed at evening a little easier. (A problem, according to Barnes & Noble, that was tearing the nation’s households apart.) However do not let it be said that Amazon doesn’t believe in the American family members. Earlier this month, the business introduced the Kindle Paperwhite, the most recent addition to an item lineup that has more or less come to be identified with the term “e-reader.”

At that launch occasion, CEO Jeff Bezos explained the 4 years of R&D that entered the front light modern technology powering that bright screen. It was clear from our hands-on time with the device that, although Amazon is placing additional focus on the Fire line nowadays, it still has a whole lot bought the e-reader fight. The sharpened, illuminated text is excellent, and Amazon has actually gone so far about explain this as the Kindle it’s constantly should construct. That’s all well and good, however just how does it contrast to similar providings on the marketplace? Is this worth the $ 119 asking price (with advertisements)? Let’s learn.