Amazon Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition

HackerNews commenters (all +13) split on design: one measures the bezel at 'roughly 40% of the area of the device's front face' and wants a pocketable, phone-like reader, while others defend it as functional ('something to hold without accidentally flipping pages') and note Amazon did shrink the bezels on the new Paperwhite. The strongest recurring frustration is ecosystem lock-in: 'DRM on Kindle books has changed and Calibre will no longer convert to EPUB,' plus a wish for a third-party Android e-ink device that reads Kobo, Amazon and B&N books. YouTube commenters are far more transactional and positive: one points out the Signature ships ad-free, making it effectively only $20 more than an ad-removed standard Paperwhite, and reports buying it for $154 on Black Friday ('a great deal'). Feature-level praise includes 'big advantage in contrast with normal pw' and the double-tap page turn ('tapping twice in quick succession anywhere on the side or back of the device advances the page. It is very comfortable'). A storage skeptic calculates a lifetime of text reading fits in 4GB - 'if you're only reading traditional books the additional space isn't a benefit' (comics/audiobooks excepted). Friction signals: 'They changed the size just enough to force everyone to buy new cases'; a reviewer-linked leather sleeve initially pointed to old-device versions; one user asks whether the Signature's auto screen settings can be disabled for manual control. Purchase decisions cite choosing it over Kobo Color because it's cheaper and library books can still be sent to it.

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