# Why did I fall in love with my new Amazon Kindle 2020? - A second glance on my Kindle - A review by Miki Szeles

[Joking apart](https://mszeles.com/how-i-fell-in-love-with-my-amazon-kindle-2020), I would like to explain to you **why I fell in love with my new Kindle**. I have ordered the low category kindle as it has all the functionality that I need at a quite reasonable price.

Whenever I unboxed my ebook reader, I was surprised.

## Technical Details

### Size and weight

The size of the Kindle was smaller than I expected, but after taking it into my hand, I realized how light it is. I already had a Sony ebook reader several years ago, which was larger, but much heavier. So I first thought it will be too small, but after a few hours of reading, I realized it is adequate, especially as I can set the font size and I have a quite good sight so I can use a relatively small font.

Actually having this **small size and weight** is very practical as I can bring the Kindle with me everywhere. I can read on the tram, bus, in the car, on the toilet ...

### Screen

The Kindle has a **6" 167pp resolution touchscreen**, which makes it **very easy to navigate and interact** with. Due to the epaper screen, it is slower than a phone or tablet, but I can live with that. You can change the page by swiping or tapping at the side of the page. I really enjoy the swiping navigation, it is similar to using a real book.

### Backlight
It has a **built-in adjustable led light**, which is perfect for me, as I can easily read during the night whenever my family is sleeping in the same room.

### Wifi
The device can connect to the Wifi that you **can use to download books, audiobooks and send your notes to your email.**

### Bluetooth
You can **attach Bluetooth headphones** to the Kindle so you can also listen to the books, which is quite a great feature.

### Battery
Without Wifi, you can use the **Kindle for 1 month reading half hour a day.** It can be **fully charged in 4 hours** using an USB cable.

### Waterproof
The device is IPX8 waterproof which means it can be submerged into water deeper than 1 meter. Well, I have not tested this feature yet, but I am not willing to do that anyway. 😊

### Storage
It has a built-in **8GB of storage** which is enough for thousands of books.

That's enough about the technical parameters, let's look at its features

## Features

### Highlighting and note-taking
**My favourite feature is highlighting.** Whenever I read a (technical) book, I always underline the parts relevant to me. Using the kindle is so easy, **you can quickly highlight multiple lines even across more than one page.** Whenever you are ready with the book, **you can email the notes and highlights to yourself.** 

The Kindle marks the parts of the text which are highlighted by many users even showing the number of them.

Up till now, I have not tried the notetaking feature, but it has that also.

### Bookmark
You can **bookmark any page** using your Kindle which is a great way, to mark some important pages.

### Searching

You can **search for any text** in the book. I guess I do not have to emphasize how much it is better than trying to find something in a real book.

### Built in dictionary
I love this feature. I am not a native English speaker, so usually, there are many words, which I do not understand. But I do not have to skip them, because I can **read the definition of the word with a single tap** using the built-in dictionary. I have already learnt so many words thanks to this. You can even install other dictionaries for your preferred language.

### VoiceView
The Kindle has a **built-in screen reader**, with which you can listen to any book. It only supports the English language. I have not tried it yet, but I will definitely give it a try.

### Audible
**You can buy** not only books but also **audiobooks **from the Kindle store. Sometimes the books are read by the other itself and sometimes they are read by actors and actresses. I bought the audio version of Seth Godin's The Dip, which was read by Seth Godin himself. I was okay-ish, but I expected more emotion in the reading tone. But that's my problem. 😊

### Supported formats
Kindle Format 8 (AZW3), Kindle (AZW), TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively; HTML DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, PMP through conversion.

### Sync across multiple devices
In case you have **multiple devices** Kindle, phone, tablet **you can continue reading on any of them** where you left off.

### Kindle Store
Using Wifi, you can **buy books directly from the Kindle Store** and you can of course also buy audiobooks.

### Kindle Unlimited
For only a few dollars per month, you can have **access to more than 2 million books** using the Kindle Unlimited subscription. I subscribed to it, but up till now I have not found any book that I wanted to read in the Kindle Unlimited books, but I guess it is because I mainly read technical books. But for example, you can read the whole Harry Potter Series.

The Unlimited subscription is not available in all countries but with a little finesse you can get it. 😊

### Cover
You can **display the cover of the currently read book** on the device and as it is an epaper, it is not consuming any energy to do that.

### Web Browser
The Kindle has a built-in web browser, with which **you can open any link in the books, or you can just simply browse the internet.** Be warned, youtube is not supported by this browser. 😉

### Goodreads
The device can **integrate with Goodreads, with which you can get book recommendations based on your reading list, you can also see what your friends are reading.** You can keep track of what you are reading, what you have read, what you would like to read and you can even find many book reviews on Goodreads.

### Household & Family Library
You can **share books and other digital content** across your device and Kindle apps **with one more adult and four kids**, and you can even control what content your children can access.

And that's all. I hope I was able to explain why buying the **Amazon Kindle 2020 was my best investment in this year** up till now. By the way, its price is only **$120**.

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