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Kindle PaperwhiteHardware

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Who uses, recommends or left Kindle Paperwhite, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Clay Shirky
Writer and teacher at NYU; author of Here Comes Everybody and Cognitive Surplus, on the social and economic effects of the internet.
loved

I do have two Kindle Paperwhites (two because I lost one in a pile of papers and replaced it and then found it again) which I love. The Kindle's best feature is that it offers no way to check my email.

His Uses This interview, on a deliberately net-centric and disposable setup.

2014-04-15·usesthis.com ↗

Teresa Torres
Product discovery coach; wrote Continuous Discovery Habits and writes Product Talk.
loved

Kindle Paperwhite This is by far my favorite device. It’s with me at all times. I love to read books and this device was designed for readers.

Blog post listing her favorite productivity, reading and product-building tools

2014-01-02·producttalk.org ↗

Pouria
Developer and designer publishing at pouria.dev; author of the open-source URL shortener Kutt.
uses

Kindle Paperwhite e-book reader, for when I don't have access to the print version of the book.

His /uses page, "Apps, tools and devices that I use", published 1 December 2019 and stamped "last update: 30 aug 2023".

2023-08-30·pouria.dev ↗

Matt Cutts
Longtime head of Google's webspam team; later administrator of the United States Digital Service.
uses

In the main pocket of my backpack, you'll find my Chromebook Pixel, a Kindle Paperwhite, and a Wired magazine or Maximum PC magazine.

The Setup (usesthis.com) interview: his work machines, running gear and the contents of his travel backpack.

2014-04-03·usesthis.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.