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inside this box is the new e ink Kindle paperwhite now this is the one that comes with that light technology I'm very curious to see and it replaces the e ink touchscreen Kindle which we have right here alright let's get inside the box pretty minimal packaging and actually that's a little dangerous as you can see our box arrived pretty banged up hopefully it's okay okay so here's our paper whites note to self do not call it paperweight you're gonna want to trust me so inside the box we just have the charging cable no wall wart you can never complain enough about no wallet the bezel is black not the kind of charcoal grey that we've all gotten used to with those latest gen Kindles okay oh it's pretty nice it's super sleek and you can see there are no physical buttons on this guy at all this is all touchscreen it feels super smooth the matte back is really grippy some of the other Kindles are a little bit slippery hopefully it's a little bit charged for us to thinking oh wow so there's that light you can see that come on immediately this is meant to be kind of a cross between a tablet and an e-ink Kindle you can compare here our e-ink Kindle isn't in the greatest of shape but this looks a little much more like a book that is bright all right while we load up our books here let's get to the specs it has a six inch e-ink display using Amazon's patented light technology which they claim evenly illuminates the screen for perfect reading under any conditions there are two gigabytes of internal storage which translates to 1,100 books the previous Kindle Touch had four gigs of storage so this is a little bit less it weighs seven point eight ounces and there are no buttons it's fully touchscreen and amazon says a single charge will last eight weeks even with the light on we'll see unfortunately there's no headphone jack or audio output for audio files the paperwhite costs $119 with ads for the Wi-Fi only version and there's also a 3G version that will run you 170 dollars if you want to opt out of the ads it'll cost you an extra 20 bucks I got to say at first blush the Kindle paperwhite is like cognitive disconnect because it looks like a Kindle which is kind of like a book but then it acts like a tablet or a computer with all the touch screening and the like shiny light and stuff I mean it's nice it's a very nice device and I'm sure that the light would actually prove to be pretty handy it might take a little getting used to but all in all I suspect it's going to be a winner it is also in fact a CNET editor's choice so it's definitely a winner with David Carr knowing you could read his full review over at CNET Co slash Kindle paperwhite