Review Amazon Kindle Touch

Amazon Kindle is already the market-leading e-reader. It really is light, pleasant to utilize, and has no cost 3G downloads wherever your book-reading self is in the world.

Now there is a brand new touchscreen version, but is it worth the £109 when a regular Kindle is £89.

It really is a large fat yes. I feel bad for having purchased the earlier model as gifts, for the reason that this really is so much less complicated to work with.

On the typical Kindle, fiddling your way through the bookstore to tap within the title of one's newest read is often a drag, and a single in the couple of complaints concerning the tiny grey novel replacement. Touching the screen is all-natural now that we do it on all our other devices, so it is a wise move to help keep up with the times.

The new gadget also presents effortless one-handed reading and page flipping. So you can, err, do some thing else together with your other hand. No poor point when you are attempting to negotiate the tube and soak up your anonymous 'mommy porn'.

The only criticism in the Kindle is perhaps not Amazon's fault. When you're utilized to beautiful, albeit heavier, Retina screens, it really is archaic watching the magnetic filaments re-arrange themselves on the Kindle Touch's screen as you flip pages, or trawl book covers.

The pay off is that the Amazon Kindle Touch is super light, compared to the new Apple iPad, and that's the payoff for such a straightforward screen.

Amazon Kindle Touch also provides the capability to play MP3s. Would you use it for that? We're not certain, and Amazon doesn't seem to be either, which is why the MP3 player, internet browser and text-to-speech functions on this new Kindle are hidden within a menu section referred to as 'Experimental'.

I for one come across life/the tube/everything distracting sufficient, so I do not listen to MP3s when I read. I like to feel in the internet as a wealthy, multi-coloured encounter, so the greyscale version can be a little sparse on this point - you miss the puce hues of Murdoch's face at Levison on the Telegraph for a start out.

Text-to-speech is really a whole other amount of odd. A pc voice, like Stephen Hawkings but not as smart, barks your novel at you, stripping the timbre and romance from each paragraph. This may perhaps be beneficial for persons with vision problems, but a Stephen Fry audiobook can be a a lot more soothing option.