Review: Bigger screen and better lighting make for a nearly perfect Kindle Paperwhite

Enlarge / The 11th-generation Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition. (credit: Andrew Cunningham)

It’s the most reliable upgrade in tech: take a thing that was already good, and make the screen bigger.

From laptops to TVs to phones to game consoles in order to tablets to watches, the time-honored tradition of making the screen bigger has resulted in some excellent upgrades, at least as long as making the screen bigger doesn’t screw up anything else.

And that’s Amazon’s playbook with the $140 11th-generation Kindle Paperwhite . Next to the 10th-generation model, the designs look nearly identical, but the new one has a larger screen enabled within part by slimmer borders around the top and sides.