Amazon Doubles The Storage Of The Existing Kindle Paperwhite – TechCrunch

Amazon has not Introduced a splashy Kindle update this year, but the company did confirm that it has TechCrunch Increased storage on devices from its 2GB is 4GB (of Which a portion is dedicated is the system software), meaning Those who purchased the gadget since around last month or so are able to hold about twice the number of digital books on Their devices.

The boost was originally spotted by e-reading blog The Digital Reader, Which took the news of the mid- Season update as an indicator That Amazon was not planning to release a Kindle hardware refresh this year. The Kindle Paperwhite update here is more indicative of the Amazon Likely taking the opportunity to pass along savings found in its supply chain owing to the dropping cost of flash memory is Consumers, however, and probably not reflective of Their product roadmap.

The doubling of storage will not mean much to most Kindle users – ebooks do not take up much space at all, and even the 2GB version can hold over 1,000 books. Estimates about how many books people will read In Their lifetime vary wildly, but 5,000 is impressive for even habitual readers, and given the Kindle connectivity and Amazon’s free cloud backup of your purchases, 1,000 books or 2,000 books’ worth of local storage is really splitting hairs .

We’ve heard a lot of buzz in the past regarding to the Paperwhite update, Including our own report about a so-called “Ice Wine” That prototype has a much more dense 300 ppi screen for better text rendering, along with a display that’s made of some kind of matte glass Which is flush with the device case. The new Kindle is also said to be much lighter overall.

In June, a BusinessWeek article reiterated That a thinner Kindle was indeed in the works at Amazon’s Lab126 hardware laboratory, Which could be on track for introduction this year . Amazon has released new Kindle reader devices in the fall since the introduction of the Kindle 4 in 2011, so it’s very reasonable to expect any new Paperwhite reveal to fall around the same time period for 2014.