Amazon Kindle Touch

Amazon Kindle touch

           The kindle touch is slightly heavier than the kindle (the plain Jane edition), but is considerably less bulky than the one with the keyboard. The device has 4GB on-board storage –Amazon says that is good for about 3000books. On-board is an experimental web browser, and “experiment” for a good reason. Some flash heavy websites do not render properly, but most sites load just fine.

         

                            

With all the kindle devices till now, a lot of book lovers missed the feel of actually turning a page. The Kindle Touch brings that back, to a huge extent. Amazon have divided the field on the display very well- trapping any- where in the wide margin on the right side to flip to the next  page, or tap anywhere in the thin left margin will flip to the previous page. Alternative, you just swipe on the screen like you would swipe a page in a book.

Amazon claims a battery life of about 2 months with an hour of reading daily. We still haven’t been able to drain the battery on our Kindle Touch! It has been with us for two weeks, and despite a couple of hours of reading daily, the battery is slightly above 50 percent. It had come out of the box with about 60 percent charge.

          For someone who already has a Kindle 3, the touch isn’t an enticing enough upgrade. But for someone who is looking to buy their first e-book reader, then the touch is the smartest choice at the moment.

                                                                                                                          By think Digit