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Kindle Paperwhite (2024)

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Kindle Paperwhite (2024)

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The Kindle Paperwhite has a 7-inch e-ink display, weighs 205 grams, and can store thousands of books in 16 GB of memory. Its battery lasts up to 12 weeks on a single charge. The e-ink display reflects ambient light like real paper rather than emitting backlight like a phone screen. Amazon has sold over 100 million Kindle devices since the original launched in 2007.

Measurements

Height1.8 tenths m
3.5 thousandthsOlympic pool lengths
1.7 tenthsBaseball bats
Width1.3 tenths m
2.9Wine cork lengths
3 millionthsMarathon routes
1.7 hundredthsTape measure lengths
Thickness8.1 thousandths m
675 millionthsHouse widths
1.8 tenthsMatchsticks
98.8 billionthsPanama Canals
Weight2 tenths kg
891 millionthsUpright pianos
2.6 hundredthsRaccoons
205 trillionBacteria
Storage16 billion B
6.4 tenthsBlu-ray discs
160,000Excel spreadsheets
16Windows updates

16 GB

Battery life7.3 million s
20,451Bohemian Rhapsodies
84Mayfly lifespans
174 millionFilm frames

About 12 weeks

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