That sums up the Amazon Kindle Voyage's exclusive benefits, mind: new buttons, new screen, slim and fancy body. The rest is pretty familiar. You get 4GB storage — enough for anyone, believe us — a great six weeks' battery life and Amazon's fantastic ebook ecosystem and software. There's also a 3G version, although that'll cost you a gulp-inducing £229.
Unless you're only juggling between a Kindle Voyage and another Kindle model, it's also worth thinking about how good Kindles are to use. Spoiler: they're great. The interface is dead simple and fuss-free, the books selection is great and offers loads of regular promos, and the way Amazon delivers books is genius.
You can buy books from a Kindle Voyage over Wi-Fi (or 3G), download a free sampler of anything and even buy from a computer's browser and have the book downloaded to your Kindle automatically. It makes buying books from other ereaders look like completing a tax return.
For real book obsessives, Amazon has also recently kicked off a new Netflix-style book service called Kindle Unlimited. It lets you freely dip into over 700,000 books for £7.99 a month. And if you find you're still only getting through one John Grisham tome every two months, there's no long-term contract involved.
Kindle Unlimited includes a load of audiobooks too, but there's no way to play them through the Voyage. Unlike the big daddy keyboard Kindle of old, there's no speaker here.
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