06-21-2024, 04:21 AM | #1 |
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Need advice about buying a new Kindle 8 in 2024
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I was hoping you could help me out with the following. I've found some store from China selling supposedly new, unused Kindle 8, but i'm concerned about the state of the battery since the book was made way in 2016-2017 and it’s probably been lying around drained for a long time. Am i correct in assuming that the battery is likely no longer usable? Or even if it's in working condition its capacity has reduced and it will hold the charge for less time than it's supposed to do? Thank you! |
06-21-2024, 05:15 AM | #2 |
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The self-discharge rate of Lithium ion batteries (according to a quick google) varies between 0.5% and 3% per month. And it's lower if stored at low temperatures.
8 years = 96 months. So if the discharge rate was at the lower end of the range, they could still be good. A replacement battery seems to be about £20 in the UK. The Kindle 8 is interesting, in that it's the only touch screen kindle that doesn't use a capacitative layer. |
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06-21-2024, 07:02 AM | #3 |
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Thank you for such a detailed reply, i appreciate it! Just one follow-up question - am i correct in my understanding that new items are usually stored at around 40-50% charge? So in 90 months is must have probably already discharged?
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The battery could be dead, or be quite good as the number of complete cycles is the most wear. After that it's time, temperature and quality (purity etc). |
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The light pipe layer for front lighting slightly reduces contrast due to increased reflections of ambient light, and slightly reduces sharpness as it has a micro texture to release the LED light fed in at the edge(s). This is why a Pearl screen with no touch (or only IR touch) and no lighting can look almost as white as earlier front-lit Carta with a 3rd party touch layer. Though all Carta family have regal mode refresh, which is not on Pearl. Kindle 8 is a Pearl screen, it has Bluetooh, but it's only really voice view. Pointless compared to TTS on a phone. Pearl 800 × 600 px so as it's 6″ the screen density is 167 ppi. This kind of Kindle became the Basic series when the PW1 came out. The 4G flash is part used by the OS. It would need to be very cheap. The 800 x 600 is better on a 5″ ereader (Sony PRS-350 or 2nd version of Kobo Mini). The PRS-350 is also IR touch, but with some buttons. Its battery is available and easily replaced (less than £20). |
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I'm kinda strapped for cash and don't really want to shell out much for an e reader, so i wanted to keep T2 for myself, sell the other one and buy this supposedly new Kindle 8 instead. Do you think it's a foolish plan and i should keep using the Sony if there's nothing wrong with it? Thank you! Last edited by quentincompson; 06-21-2024 at 09:09 AM. |
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If you're in any way "strapped for cash", don't buy another ebook reader until you're unhappy with the old one, IMO.
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Anyway, what i probably meant to say was that right now i can afford to spend some money on an e-reader, but i'm kinda of a cheapskate and don't want spend more than 50-60 dollars (and i do realize that hoping to buy a good new reader with those expectations is probably unreasonable and unrealistic on my part)... so when i stumbled upon this new Kindle 8 i wondered if it may serve as good backup option for the T2 ... Apologies if i'm not making much sense... |
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06-21-2024, 10:52 AM | #15 | |
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I do like the T3, but the hyphenation problem is kind of a letdown, and it seems that the text on the screen is not as pronounced and saturated with black as on my T2 (which also doesn't have the issue of hyphenating words at the end of a line). So it seems that for me T2 is the better option of the two. P.S. Incidentally, could you tell me if a Kindle 8 also has the same hyphenation issue (dividing some word at the end of lines) as the T3 model? Last edited by quentincompson; 06-21-2024 at 10:55 AM. |
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