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$80 more for the higher-DPI Kindle Voyage seems a bit steep. Usually each generation of e-Ink Kindles were roughly the same price but with incremental improvements. I don't see much improvement in the Voyage to justify a big price increase. Plus I wish they'd bring back the physical page-turn buttons. Touch screens and "haptic" responses can't beat old-fashioned buttons.

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Although you don't get the high res screen, there are incremental improvements in the base $79 model. More storage, faster processor, touch screen...

If I were betting, I'd bet that the high res screen component isn't yet available in large enough quantities and/or cheaply enough to make it feasible to use in the low-end model. That will no doubt change.

I think what the OP is referring to is that the Voyage is really just the Paperwhite v3.

The just called it something else and raised the price excessively.

totally agree. maybe amazon is actually trying to make a profit?

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