Kindle Paperwhite (2021 Release)

Every new Kindle I bought has been a downgrade from the previous one and this one is no exception! The only reason I bought this one is I lost my previous one. 1. There are more menus, they are less intuitive, and are a nightmarish pain in the "neck" to navigate through. The Kindle designers need to learn the KISS principle; Keep It Simple, S... instead of adding all the extra bells and whistles, which have slowed this thing down dramatically! 2. Touchscreens and I do not get along. Something about my body chemistry makes them erratic to use at best. The old five button Kindle I had was extremely reliable and easy to use. The touch screen ones are a royal pain in the "neck"! The only reason I bought this abomination is I accidentally left my previous one at a restaurant and someone apparently stole it instead of turning it in. Even the previous Kindle, despite having a touch screen, was much easier to use than this magnificent mess. 3. I have over 2000 books and trying to get them onto this joke has been a nightmare. I had them all downloaded on my computer for side-loading but the ones I have already downloaded are not compatible with this new Kindle so the all hadto be downloaded again. Unfortunately, Amazon has made it impossible to side-load books anymore. Their content management webpage still has an option to download to a computer for side-loading but the downloads are an older file type that's not compatible with this thing so I'm forced to use WiFi to get books onto this junk. Even worse, the content webpage frequently shows some books being in the Kindle when they're not and some other books as not being on the Kindle when they actually are. It was a time consuming, royal pain in the "neck" to make sure the books actually were on the Kindle. At times, I would get an error message on the Kindle saying I couldn't access a book I put on it, saying I wasn't the original owner which was totally false! I would have to delete the download from the Kindle and reload it with the same book that supposedly i didn't originally own. With the obtuse, tedious way of getting books onto the Kindle and Amazon's royally messed up content website, I've probably lost a few books in the process. Thanks a lot, Amazon! I do not use WiFi—it's too easily hacked and, compared to side-loading, it's slow as a dead snail—but that's my only option for a mass download. Trying to get it to download my books has been a nightmare and is driving me insane! It's going to be a royal pain in the neck to remember to turn on the WiFi at home before buying a book. I've always used my computer to buy books; it's much easier than trying to do it on a Kindle with a tiny screen and unintuitive menus that also requires WiFi to be turned on. I just hope I can still buy my books that way because I do not wont to be making financial transactions over WiFi that's easy to hack no matter how well it's firewalled and how secure the password is. 4. On my previous Kindle, to sync it between it and my Kindle Cloud Reader (which I have to use when reading from my computer because Amazon is too cheap or ornery to create a Kindle for Linux App), all I had to do was get the location from one and type it into the other. Now I have to go through the rigmarole of turning on the WiFi, syncing it, then turning off the WiFi. Amazon needs to stop "fixing what ain't broke". 5. This Kindle is so "feature" bloated, it takes longer to do just about anything on it. After tapping on a book in the library, it takes seven to ten seconds for the book to open up. 6. The manual in this "feature" bloated abomination is over 170 pages long! It can't be downloaded to the Kindle; I have to read it directly over the WiFi (why on Earth didn't Amazon load it directly onto the Kindle?) ! If I ever need to refer to the menu when I'm someplace where WiFi, I'm out of luck. Another wonderful design, Amazon! Making it even worse, despite a detailed menu at the beginning of the guide, it can't be used to navigate directly to the part I want. I have to scroll page by page to get there, yet another pain in the "neck"! There is a scroll bar on the side but I never could get the stupid thing to work. There is supposed to be a version I can download but I can't find it. 7. Without a frame to make holding the Kindle easier, it's too easy to accidentally "tap" on something losing whatever was on the screen at the time. It's also too easy to accidentally press the on/off button. With Amazon being so obsessed with touch screens, why didn't they keep the on/off function screen onscreen like my previous Kindle did. Another great innovation, Amazon! Saying this "feature" bloated, unintuitive abomination is a disappointment would be like saying a Class 5 hurricane is a tropical breeze! Edit: I just now spent 20 minutes buying a book and fighting to get it onto this sorry piece of junk! I had to restart the stupid thing to get it to stop throwing error messages. Also, the sync feature is worthless; I’ve yet to get it to sync between this sorry piece of garbage and Kindle Cloud Reader.