How old is your kindle? Should I get a new one?

When I went through the process on Amazon it asked me to approve payment in my credit card app, this asked me to approve a payment of £15 so I declined.

How does the trade/in work, I went through the process on the Amazon website but it wanted to charge me £15 so I declined the transaction.

You get a backlight with the basic one. There are of course features of the Paperwhite which makes it better than the basic- just depends on what you want.

Ads just means you get a book title on the wake up page.

I got a Paperwhite with no ads because they were on offer and I had vouchers to spend! But I've had basics for about 12 years and never felt the need for anything fancier!

I’ve been very happy with my basic one. I spent a lot of time researching the difference between the basic and paper white and (for me) couldn’t see sufficient reason to pay more for the Paperwhite. However everyone is different and has their own ideas on what’s worth the money.

I’m pretty sure you can pay later to get the adds removed if they bother you. I paid at the time of purchase for no ads.

The adverts are fine, it's just on the screensaver page when you wake it up - they don't keep popping up......or mine doesn't anyway.

@Stanislas you can remove your account from your kindle via amazon>account>manage my content and devices, they ask you to do so before sending it in. There's also a thing there to make a device your default for sending kindle books to, otherwise you go into content, select the books you want on kindle, and hit deliver. Then sync the kindle.

Do you have to delete or archive your books if you send it away? My Kindle is old and I read mainly on iPad. The ones I order via kindle cloud do not appear on the kindle. I’m not very tech savvy at all.

I love my Kindle. It's used a lot especially when traveling.
It's nearly 9 years old. Working perfectly but is slow to charge. I am thinking of getting a new one later this year.
Thanks for starting this thread OP,
as I didn't know could trade it in with Amazon & get the discount.

I traded in recently as my 7yr old kindle was getting a bit slow and glitched out a few times. I got the trade in voucher really quickly (i traded in my 2011 kindle which broke so I didn't have to give up my working one!).

Just an FYI, when I went to buy a new paperwhite, amazon asked if I wanted it with 3 months free Kindle Unlimited. I said yes. Except that option removed the 20% off! No idea why. I wasn't that fussed so I removed it and when the kindle arrived, the first thing it did when powered on was offer me ... 3 months Unlimited free.

I love the dyslexic font on mine - I’m not dyslexic but it it’s really easy to read

I had a leather cover which incorporated a little light. I much prefer this to a back-light.

I have the original one too. I could still load books (but not directly from the device) but the page turning buttons were sticking and it needed charging every 5 minutes. I was given a new paperwhite for my recent birthday. I don't love it as much as the old one but it's early days yet.

I have one of the early models, I got it in 2010 I think? It has a keyboard and a 3g international sim card which still works. No backlight though and you have to click buttons to turn the page. I'd like a back-lit one but it just won't flipping die/break so I have a good enough reason to replace it.

I got the first one which must be over 15 years old now. They did something to the tech so you now need a second device and a separate Wi-Fi to buy a new book rather than the one-click order, which is a bit of a faff, but otherwise it's going strong.

My kindle is 20 yo and going strong.

Mine was bought in Oct 2013 probably the same model as yours @Doglegs - it's still as good as ever however it got filled up ac King time ago and I have to unload books to make space for new ones (largely I've only bought the 99p deals) however I generally use my ipad more - I have a lot of technical books (and cooking books) that are huge and contain many diagrams and/or photos etc so this suits the iPad better. I have only about 1.4Gb on the Paperwhite but I have over 60Gb of books on my ipad - the Kindle still has its place in my life though - my ipad is 12.9" only because I wanted it for digital art projects - frankly the smaller ipads, I think, are far more manageable in most cases.

When I had my old iPad mini I used to love reading on it; either the kindle app or iBooks.
However, I now love my kindle because I can read in the sunshine which you can't easily on the iPad.

Backlight on kindle is great if you don't want to be restricted by lamp light angles

I got a new kindle last year. I’d bought my old one in 2012. It’s one of the best decisions I made that year. I had completely got out of the habit of reading. I disliked the grey background on my old kindle and the lack of backlight was problematic for nighttime reading. My new kindle is just the basic one, but is backlit and I love it. I also bought a really cute case, which I know isn’t important, but it makes me happy.

And I’m back into reading! Having also developed a kindle daily deal habit.

In your shoes, I’d have a look and see what features the new ones have.

I did this in Nov and really pleased with my new kindle and the money I saved - they even sent me more fir my returned kindle than I expected