Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I have both Voyage and Paperwhite. The battery life is the same or very similar. The screen resolution is the same. Voyage is lighter by less than 1oz (25 gram weight difference). This is a negligible difference, a typical kindle cover is several times heavier than the difference in weight between the two devices. I gave both devices to play around to a few friends who were not very familiar with Kindles. Nobody has a strong preference-- about half liked Paperwhite a bit better, the other half slightly preferred Voyage. I personally like a slightly sturdier feel of Paperwhite but it is a matter of taste. Other reviews mention that Voyage uses costly materials it may be true but it did not make the product any better. The reading experience on two devices is identical. The main difference is that Voyage has a few more LEDs to brighten the screen. This means that when the screen of Paperwhite is at maximum brightness it looks identical to the screen of Voyage when Voyage is at about 80% of the max brightness. I never felt that my Paperwhite is not bright enough, in fact when I read at night I use it at 50% brightness. Thus having a slightly brighter screen is not worth anything to me. The difference in brightness is so small that I can only notice it when comparing devices side by side. The other difference between Paperwhite and Voyage are the page turning buttons on Voyage. I did not have any issues with page turning on Paperwhite, for aesthetic reason I prefer not to have extra buttons but it does not really make a difference either. Finally, Voyage can automatically adjust screen brightness. Unfortunately, I found that this feature did not work well for me-- to get to the brightness that I prefer I had to make manual adjustment so I disabled that feature (it is disabled by default probably because many users prefer not to have it). One more observation-- origami cover is a neat idea but is absolutely useless-- it turns into a not so sturdy book stand-- for a small minority of users who are in a habit of reading while seating at a desk with a book in a book stand it is better just to pick up a book stand and keep it on a desk. For most people the origami cover dramatically increases the weight of the product without much benefit. I prefer to keep my kindle's in a sleeve. It is sleeve-- this way when I read I can hold the kindle without holding the extra weight. IMO sleeves are a better and cheaper choice for both Paperwhite and Voyage. Amazon pushes Amazon Kindle covers very hard because they make more money on covers than on Kindles themselves. The bottom line-- Paperwhite and Voyage are basically identical, if the price were the same choosing between the two would be difficult. Considering an enormous price difference the choice is obvious.