Niced size package easily held with one hand for reading in bed or in the cockpit. Battery life is super long lasting through a number of books at my reltatively slow reading rate. Screen us veryt readable even in bright sunlight and doesn't take any juice once the screen is written to. No worries about it running the battery down if you forget to turn it off. I just don't ever turn it off, just click the power switch to bring it back to life when I want to continue reading. Like the pricey but very useful lighted wallet from Amazon. It's got a pull out reading light that's powered off the Kindles battery so doesn't take a second hand and constant fussing to read by. You just pull out the light and it lights up automatically, is unobtrusive, and out of the way in use.