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amazon has given its kindle paperwhite a refresh and we're going hands-on now with the latest version at the ephah tech trade show in Berlin all right this ereader looks very similar to the previous paper lights put there are quite a few changes for starters there's a new processor that's supposed to be 25% faster than the old model and that's going to make page turning a lot quicker the panel has changed as well this is a new ink panel and the lighting technology has been upgraded as well so you can now up the brightness even more Amazon's thrown in a few software tweaks as well first up is Wikipedia support which lets you hold your finger over a word and look up its meaning or Wikipedia also every word you look up will now be put into this flashcard app called vocab builder to help you remember the words you might be struggling with finally there's this slider app now what this lets you do is skip around your location in a book without actually leaving the page that's handy if there's one page in a book that you always want to be skipping back to perhaps a list of the important characters it's up for pre-order now and it's going to be shipping in about two weeks it cost one hundred and nineteen dollars or a hundred and nine pounds if you're in the UK please check out more tech from the ephah trade show by going to see Netcom slash Aoife