Amazon leaks new Kindle Paperwhite with larger 6.8-inch display

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13 points·Tomte··10 comments

I really wish that there was some sort of 3rd party E-Reader that could read books from Kobo, Amazon, as well as B&N. My phone can do it, my tablet can, but not my E-Reader which kind of stinks. Some sort of Android based e-ink device would be great.

Does calibre not get you most of the way there?

DRM on Kindle books has changed and Calibre will no longer convert to EPUB.

I wonder if they got rid of that massive bezel...

Since the bezel is really great for holding the device without obscuring the text, I doubt they want to get rid of it.

Phones have other uses like video watching, also the tension between big display, but small outer size is much more important here. You won't put the Kindle into your Jeans pocket anyway.

> You won't put the Kindle into your Jeans pocket anyway.

Speak for yourself! No easier way to bring it with me to the coffee shop or laundromat, for example. That said, I agree that the bezel isn't a problem. It gives me something to hold without accidentally flipping pages, highlighting or making bookmarks.

If it was a lot smaller (no bezel), I could hold it like a phone and it would fit in my pocket... The bezel is roughly 40% of the area of the device's front face...

Glad to see that they did reduce it:

> In order to achieve that minimal increase in size, Amazon has shrunken down the bezels on the new Paperwhite.

And make the experience worse?

Sorry, they did reduce it:

> In order to achieve that minimal increase in size, Amazon has shrunken down the bezels on the new Paperwhite.

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