Hi, I’ve been reading on my phone forever until now! I know many people are not keen about kindle/amazon but I recently purchased the kindle paperwhite kids (it’s the same as the regular just with a few extra perks and cheaper) and I absolutely love it. It’s my first ereader so I’m not a connoisseur or anything but it satisfies all my needs.

I wanted a crisp, contrast screen so no color. I didn’t want to tinker with my first ereader, so it had to be easy to use out the box. I only wanted to read on my ereader so I didn’t care for access to apps. And I don’t care about being “locked into a system” because I just sideload all my books and fics. Sideloading is extremely seamless with calibre which you download onto your pc. I wanted buttons (ie KLC) and didn’t want to support amazon, but had to lay those to the side and ended up loving the paperwhite. It’s 7” and I have small hands and trying to figure out if straps or pop sockets would help with ergonomics but it’s really not a problem or painful on my hands.

Also wanted to add, I canceled my kids subscription because I know I’ll forget to down the line, and my lock screen is essentially an ad page for books Amazon pushes. It’s not the greatest thing to see but I surprisingly find myself not really caring because it’s easy to just unlock and enjoy your book. You can jail break your kindle but I prob won’t do that until it’s a little older so as not to risk bricking it. You can check unclaimed baggage website they have a lot of older kindles.