Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Summary, buy if: You read in well lit rooms, or don't mind a headlamp/book light. Want a waterproof e-reader with a small screen and physical buttons. You're tech savvy enough to remove DRM and Don't use PDFs. Already have a nice tablet/phone for all the missing basic features. You don't need TTS(text to speech). You don't use the library, only limited support for OverDrive in the USA). You don't travel and use Kindle accounts from other countries. Battery life is terrible unless you're always in airplane mode and only read with the light off. You can read the fine print.."weeks of battery life" ...oh, "30 minutes per day"...so uh, worse than the latest mini tablets with much better features, Unless you read in the the direct sunlight all day. Display only has good contrast in full sun or under a bright light. Must be noted though it's fantastic under these conditions. So for beach readers it's great. Auto brightness is super finicky and buggy. At one point I had to reset my Kindle because auto brightness would turn off lighting all together. But when I disabled auto brightness I couldn't manually turn off the light even when set to off. If you read a lot late at night or in a room with bad lighting... Don't buy this. Can't download many books in LTE, says they are "too large." Oddly enough I never get this message ever for Amazon unlimited books....so guess they're uh, not being honest. Apparently they've completely disabled mp3 support. Could swear in older Kindles you could manually load MP3s and at least play them. So Bluetooth is worthless. Many audio features that work on a tablet don't work on a Kindle. Doesn't support the majority of ebook formats. The version that has ads disabled still has a non removable add stuck on the main menu.. and oh, btw... You can't even use what they advertise all the time on LTE... Bah. You can disable the ads in the bottom of the home screen and their spy tracking, but the ad free version should default to that. Web browser is still experimental after 10+ years? And it has terrible ghosting. You literally have to rotate the display back and forth to "full refresh" the page. There is no option to do that besides for reading books. Basic features like a timer or eye rest reminders do not exist at all. UI design is straight out of the 90's. Three layers deep just to change font size. Actions have different behavior on different screens, but the UI gives no indication that behavior will be different. Limited accessibility options. Nonhigh contrast mose. It does have text to speech, but it only works in screen reader mode and is a pain to use. Only supports one ebook library system, and of course no apps can be installed to access others. Also had trouble with borrowed foreign language books showing up as English in the Kindle. Audiobooks from any library system doesn't work. While it does support PDF, the results are terrible. And the most annoying of all. Kindle store is walled off by region. So you can't use Kindle unlimited from the US while reading e-books bought from other regions. Not without resetting/re-registering the device which requires removing all content.