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With an office full of Apple iPads, Samsung Galaxy Tabs and other tablets running Android and Windows, all of which have the Kindle app, why would anyone buy a single-function Kindle tablet? Dave Taylor -- of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ -- looks closely at the Kindle PaperWhite and is quite surprised to find that it's a splendid product with a truly remarkable eInk display. And he just might change your mind about Kindles too...
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hi Dave Taylor here again and this time
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I want to talk about the kindle now this
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is the kindle paperwhite and you're
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thinking a kindle seriously there is a
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ton of amazing tablets out there either
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iOS tablets if you have the money or
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Android tablets ranging from like 50
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bucks on up to many hundreds of dollars
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there's lots of great stuff there's the
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Microsoft Surface all of these and they
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all run the kindle app so why have a
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kindle device so it turns out this is
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the kindle paperwhite and this is a
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really interesting device because it
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uses the e-ink technology so if you can
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see on the screen i'm going to turn it
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on and it does a sort of weird thing
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between screens and the reason for that
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is because it's a very very high
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contrast screen with no glare you can
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see you're not seeing much of any glare
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at all if i did the same thing with my
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ipad all you'd see were all the lights
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that i'm using and my camera and all
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this stuff this turns out to be a great
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device it's extremely light it's about 7
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ounces total so I mean honestly this
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compared to a can of soda the soda wins
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heavier and it's just incredibly easy to
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work with one charge will last you
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probably a month or two it will easily
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go through an entire book and that means
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that this is the kind of thing you can
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just leave in your purse in your
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briefcase in your backpack and anytime
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you have a few minutes you pull it out
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and I have oh I don't know about 25
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books on here right now and tons of
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space to spare I really really like it
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and if I open up a book and I just
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tapped it to open it so here we are in
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the book and its first thing it tells me
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is you're reading this book on another
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device and on the other device you've
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gotten further so one thing I really
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like is that the kindle software keeps
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everything in sync which is nice so i
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don't have to have this to be
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progressing in the book i'm reading and
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then when you're reading a book and i'll
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give you a quick close up here is you
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can do things like tapping
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hold on a word and get a definition now
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further not only can you get a
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definition it can also look it up in
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Wikipedia which means that as you're
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reading a book or as your child might be
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reading a book they're really getting to
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learn and get a lot more interesting
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information really nice I'm really
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actually quite astonished at how much I
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like this paper white there's just
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something about this screen it's very
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bright very vivid very high contrast
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it's at 300 DPI so the type looks really
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good if you saw the first generation of
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kindle this is way better than that now
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it's only a six inch screen so it's not
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very big but if you were to hold this up
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next to a regular paperback it's about
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the same size but imagine a paperback
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book that's seven ounces that's this
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thin and that actually happens to
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contain 20 or 30 or 40 books it's pretty
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nice deal and like i said the charge
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lasts forever and here's the even better
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part it's a hundred and twenty bucks oh
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sorry 119 bucks at amazon.com will get
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you the kindle paperwhite and this is
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the most popular of the kindle devices
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that amazon sells and when you have just
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a little time to look at the screen and
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to look at the contrast you'll
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understand why it's really something if
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you're used to the screens that are on
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the ipad or android tablets or something
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this is just so much more readable it's
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so much more comfortable for your eyes
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and it has a backlight to which is kind
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of cool so this works just as well at
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night in bed in the dark room as it does
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in the middle of a day by the pool or by
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the beach if only we had a beach here in
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the sunshine I mean it really is a very
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nice device I'm very very impressed so
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the kindle paperwhite at amazon com
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they'll be very happy to give you more
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information about it this is dave taylor
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and i think i need to get back to my
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book so i'll catch you in my next video
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you
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