Kindle Paperwhite 2024 Test Battery Life. In fact, the new unit boosts up to 12 weeks of reading time, up from the 10 weeks promised on the previous model. And it's still waterproof, can play audible audiobooks over bluetooth and has tremendous battery life.

Nor, at $140, is the standard paperwhite. The kindle paperwhite battery went from 100% to 0% in about 48 days, while the scribe was 41% at the end of the test.