Our fonts, such as Bookerly, have been hand-tuned at the pixel level for maximum readability. While you swipe to other pages or zoom out to see page thumbnails, Page Flip automatically saves the page you’re reading, pinning it to the side of your screen so you’ll never lose your place.Įnjoy text that reads like the printed page. Page Flip makes it easy to find pictures, charts, maps and even your notes and highlights from different parts of a book. Unlike tablets and phones, Kindle doesn’t distract you with social media, emails, and text messages.įlip through books while saving your place The typography and layout improvements are available on over half a million books, including many best sellers, with thousands more being added every week.īy design, Kindle Paperwhite is purpose-built for reading and creates a sanctuary so you can lose yourself in a book. Page layout and margins automatically adapt to work well at even the largest font sizes.
With improved character spacing and the addition of hyphenation, justification, kerning, ligatures, and drop cap support, our best-in-class typography helps you read faster with less eyestrain.Įnjoy reading with larger font sizes without compromising your reading experience. Typesetting engine lays out words just as the author intended for beautiful rendering of pages. Warm and contemporary, Bookerly is inspired by the artistry of the best fonts in modern print books, but is hand-crafted for great readability at any font size. Kindle Paperwhite offers Bookerly, an exclusive font crafted from the ground up for reading on digital screens. Adjust your screen's brightness for great reading in any light. Kindle Paperwhite guides light toward the surface of the display with its built-in front light-unlike back-lit tablets that shine in your eyes-so you can read comfortably for hours without eyestrain. A single charge can last up to six weeks (based on a half hour of reading per day with wireless turned off and the light setting at ten). Kindle Paperwhite won't leave you tethered to an outlet. Lighter than a paperback, comfortably hold Kindle Paperwhite in one hand for those times when you can’t put the book down. Unlike reflective tablet and smartphone screens, Kindle Paperwhite reads like paper. Rather bafflingly, though, right now this only seems available on the Fire tablets Bookerly is now available on the Fire tablets and on iOS devices, and not on the Kindle readers, the devices that would benefit the most, surely? It’s had the effect of making me slightly disappointed every time I switch back to reading on my Voyage, which is surely not the intended effect.With twice as many pixels as the previous generation, Kindle Paperwhite has an improved high-resolution 300 ppi display for crisp, laser quality text. This is a nice indication that perhaps the Kindle team do care, after all. A device that’s dedicated to words on a page, one with a screen this beautiful, deserves better type options. The Voyage still only offers six typefaces–many of them poor choices for this context–and still force-justifies every line (with no hyphenation!), creating variable-length gaps between words just so the right margin is straight rather than ragged. Unfortunately, Amazon has invested all of this effort in improved reading technology only to find itself completely at sea when it comes to typography. It’s very nice, isn’t it? Like a lot of people, I’d assumed that Amazon had little regard for typography since the Kindle Voyage (a lovely device, which I will get around to reviewing at some point) shipped without any new typefaces to match its lovely new, Retina-style screen.Īs Jason Snell put it, in his Voyage review:
Ladies and gentlemen, meet Bookerly, Amazon’s new Kindle font: Well, as a very low-key typographic geek, how could I resist? And I was doing just that on my Kindle Fire tablet a few days ago, when a notice popped up offering me a new font. Not paper books necessarily, but book-length pieces of work. One of my sorta-but-not-really New Year’s Resolutions is to read books a little more.
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