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The Best Kindle for You, According to a Book Lover
Comparing Our Favorite Kindles
What About the New Kindle Scribes?
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Amazon announced not one, not two, but three new Kindle Scribes at its fall hardware event. The lineup will now be the third-gen Kindle Scribe ($430), Kindle Scribe With Frontlight ($550), and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft ($630). These new Kindles are promised to be faster and thinner than the current model, but the most exciting part is getting a Kindle Scribe with a color screen—and the slew of new features coming to these models.
Those new features will include an AI-powered notebook search, a new digital scratch pad called Quick Notes, and Kindle Workspace, which allows you to compile books, documents, and files in one workspace and send files to or from platforms like OneDrive and Google Drive. There’s also Story So Far, which will recap the book you’re reading to the point you’re at, and Ask This Book, which lets you ask questions about characters, plot lines, and story arc. Amazon says both tools are spoiler-free.
The Kindle Scribe With Frontlight and Scribe Colorsoft will launch later this year, and the basic version will be available early next year. We’ll update these guides with our thoughts once we test these new devices.
Accessories for Easier Reading
Photograph: Nena Farrell
If you’ve ever had a long reading session that gives you hand cramps, these accessories might help. You can check out more options in our Best Kindle Accessories guide.
Strapsicle E-Reader Hand Straps for $20: Attach one or both of these to the back of your Kindle—one is angled for your right hand and the other for your left—and slide your hand in. Your hands won’t cramp, you won’t accidentally hit the screen and flip pages, and the reader won’t slip out of your hands. There are three sizes meant to hold different types of e-readers. You should see exactly which models they work with on the Amazon pages, as well as on this page on the Strapsicle website.
Lamicall Gooseneck Tablet Holder for $18: I love this device. While I wouldn’t call it completely hands-free, it’s a super convenient and comfortable experience, particularly if you have chronic pain in your wrists. The clamp is easy to attach to bed frames and side tables (there’s also a floor stand version for $60). It’s lightweight to deploy anywhere and has enough resistance to the neck that it doesn’t fall forward or out of the position you place it in. It did wobble a bit when I touched it to turn the page (or it got bumped by a curious cat), so I usually keep a rest hand on it to hold it steady. If you want to go fully hands-free, add a page-turner remote so you can read without lifting a finger.
PopSockets PopGrips starting at $10: PopSockets PopGrips aren’t just for your phone. They also work great on e-readers if paired with a MagSafe case or adhesive ring. The more affordable PopSockets work with adhesive, while the more expensive ones use MagSafe adapters, letting you take them on and off without leaving sticky residue behind. My personal favorite is the Heart of Silver ($40), since it’s a larger PopSockets and I have small hands. The Heart of Silver one makes the seven-inch Kindle Paperwhite and Colorsoft really comfortable to hold, and comes with an adapter ring to convert any case you have into a MagSage one.
Nomad 65W Slim Power Adapter for $55: Kindles have long battery life, but former WIRED reviewer Brenda Stolyar liked to carry a charger with her on the go just in case. This one from Nomad is her favorite. It’s super thin and comes with two USB-C ports, so she uses it to charge her e-reader and phone simultaneously (the left side delivers 45 watts and the right delivers 20 watts when charging two devices at the same time). The prongs also fold up, so it fits nicely in the side pocket of a bag.
Best Kindle Cases & Covers
Photograph: Nena Farrell
Amazon Kindles are, thankfully, not as fragile as our pricey smartphones, but you may still want to add a cover to protect the screen if you’re frequently toting it around in a bag. These aren’t padded for serious drops, but are the best Kindle cases we’ve found for daily protection from scratches and scuffs. The Kids’ editions come with cases.
PopSockets PopCase Kindle for $40: These Kindle cases are designed with a MagSafe adapter in the back, so you can easily add a MagSafe PopSockets grip to the back. You used to have to adhere the grip or buy a MagSafe adapter to use PopSockets on your Kindle, but now you can customize freely with these cases. These cases are also a nice quality, but they don’t include a cover, and the grip can only be attached to the predetermined lower center spot. If you have smaller hands like I do, get one of the bigger PopGrips, like the Heart of Silver ($40), to more easily reach it.
Fabric Covers for Kindle for $32 and Paperwhite for $37: These open like a book and come in some variation of black, blue, pink, or green. They’re made from postconsumer recycled fabric.
Fabric Cover for Scribe for $60: This one flips up and over like a notepad, and you can position it into a stand, too. There’s also a slot for the pen if you don’t want it to attach magnetically all the time. It’s also made with recycled materials.
The Bookish Kindle Cases starting at $36: I really like that this cover also has a built-in strap, so you can enjoy the security of a hand strap while reading and have the protection of a cover when you’re not. There are a bunch of fun colors, too.
The Quirky Cup Collective E-Reader Sleeve for $29: Our team loves these gorgeous sleeves, particularly the Sun and Moon version. They’re beautiful and will protect your device when you aren’t using it, so you can throw it in your bag without worry. The outside is velvet and the inside is satin, with some padding in between and a zip closure. On the back is a small zip pocket. On each product page, you’ll see which devices fit, but consult the measurements. There are also separate, larger book and iPad sleeves (starting at $35).
CoBak Clear Case for $9: The best part about having a clear case is that it protects the back of your Kindle and allows you to decorate it with stickers underneath.
Great Reading Lights
Photograph: Simon Hill
If you read before bed but don’t want to disturb sleeping partner, kids, or roommates, invest in a reading light. All the Kindles now have a front light, so you don’t need one, but these can still be handy, especially if you switch between your e-reader and physical books. Below are a few of our favorites. You can find more in our Best Reading Lights guide.
Vekkia 14 LED Book Light for $16: This is our top pick. It’s a clip-on light with an adjustable gooseneck and two swiveling light bars that pack seven LEDs each. You can cycle through five levels of brightness and three warm colors. It’s relatively large, though, so it’s not great for small paperbacks. The clamp opens as wide as 2.1 inches and serves as a stable base to place on a nightstand.
Glocusent LED Neck Reading Light for $23: This reading light wraps around your neck, so it looks silly. But it’s an excellent alternative to a clip-on reading light while remaining hands-free. It’s lightweight, adjustable, and comes with three color temperature modes as well as six brightness settings. It’s rechargeable and offers up to 80 hours of battery life at dimmer settings.
About Those Older Kindles
Amazon doesn’t release new Kindles often—the company usually takes a few years between models. Whenever a new one arrives, its predecessor’s stock starts to dwindle. It’s not that we don’t recommend these per se, but we only suggest these if you can find them on sale for the right price. Otherwise, we recommend buying the latest version.
Before making your purchase, cross-check the price with the latest model to make sure you’re spending a fair amount less on the older device.
- Kindle (2022, 11th Generation): This is the smallest of the lot at 6.2 inches tall and 4.3 inches wide, with a 6-inch screen. If you find tablets too cumbersome to hold with one hand, consider this one. With this model, Amazon doubled the storage to 16 gigabytes and upgraded the display to 300 pixels per inch (PPI) resolution (up from 167 PPI). It’s tough to find, but if you manage to snag one, you shouldn’t spend more than $50.
- Kindle Paperwhite (2021, 11th Generation): This is the next step up from the basic model. It has a bright 6.8-inch screen with adjustable warm lighting, a fast page-turn rate, a USB-C port, and 16 gigs of storage. It’s waterproof too. We like the Signature Edition, which also includes auto-adjust brightness and 32 gigabytes of storage. Don’t recommend spending more than $100 if you can find them.
- Kindle Scribe (1st Generation): The original Scribe is a great option for note-takers. It has a giant 10.2-inch screen for taking notes, marking up PDFs, or drawing, and numerous paper formats you can choose, like college-ruled or dotted. It also comes with the Basic Pen, which feels natural to write with and attaches to the side of the Scribe magnetically. It’s only worth it for $230 or less.
- Kindle Kids (2022): This is an older kid-friendly model. It comes with a cover, a year’s subscription to Amazon Kids+, parental controls, and a two-year warranty. Don’t spend more than $70 on this one.
- Kindle Paperwhite Kids (2021): This older Paperwhite version is a step up from the previous basic Kids models. It has a high-resolution 300-ppi display with an adjustable warm screen and is also waterproof. You shouldn’t spend more than $110 on this one.
FAQs
What’s the Best Way to Buy or Sell an Older Kindle?
Have an old Kindle lying around? Are you looking at a used one for sale? If you’re trying to figure out what model it is, this Amazon page includes photos, specs, and release years for the entire lineup. Once you know which one you have, you may be able to trade it in for credit toward a newer model.
Most old Kindles probably still work, just with fewer bells and whistles. It’s best to avoid Kindles with keyboards or any other physical buttons other than page-turn buttons. Some older models lost the ability to browse, purchase, or borrow new books directly from the device. However, you’ll still be able to do this via Amazon.com on your computer or phone and have it sent to your Kindle, which is a better experience anyway. These models include the Kindle 2nd Generation (International), Kindle DX International, Kindle DX Graphite, Kindle Keyboard, Kindle 4th Generation, and Kindle 5th Generation.
How Do You Get Free Ebooks on a Kindle?
If you buy every single book you want to read on a Kindle, it can add up! But there are ways to save some money while reading as much as your heart desires. You may want to subscribe to Kindle Unlimited for $12 a month. You can only choose from the Unlimited catalog, but there are millions of titles there, including audiobooks and magazines. Start out with the 30-day free trial.
If you already pay for a Prime account, you’re eligible for some free ebooks through Prime Reading. There are not as many options as with Kindle Unlimited, and in a lot of cases, you’ll see both Unlimited and Prime options lumped together; you’ll have to look closely to find the free ebooks. It’s still something, and there are even a few magazines.
If you don’t want another monthly subscription and don’t want to continue giving your money to Amazon, take advantage of the ebooks available with your library card. Browsing a digital catalog is not as magical as spending an afternoon looking over every shelf in a library, but such is the ebook life (no one says you can’t read both!). We have a detailed how-to on this you should check out, but here are some of the takeaways:
- Get a library card for your local branch.
- Check your branch’s website for its ebook offerings. Many libraries use a service called OverDrive.
- Download directly to your Kindle library. They’ll automatically be removed when they’re due back.
If you know someone else with a Kindle, you can lend books between your libraries, just as you would with a physical copy. Follow these instructions from Amazon if you want to share an ebook, but keep in mind that not all books can be loaned.
Do All Kindles Have Dark Mode?
Dark mode is a big appeal of any e-reader, whether it’s a Kindle or another brand. And just about all models have it now that most e-readers include a front light. (Older Kindles don’t always have one, so if you’re getting an older refurbished one, double-check it.) However, one new model doesn’t have a true dark mode: the Colorsoft. The Colorsoft can’t have a full dark mode due to its screen design, according to Amazon, but instead you can switch the page color to black in the Quick Actions menu. It’s not the same, though, especially if you are reading something that isn’t a regular book (like a file sent to your Kindle) or want the menu pages to also be dark, you’re out of luck.
What Else Can a Kindle Do?
Kindles have helpful features you may want to take advantage of. Long-press a word or phrase to see its definition, highlight it, or take notes. You can also search the entire book for that particular word or phrase or translate it to or from other languages.
Word Wise shows short definitions in small text within the lines. Unfortunately, it’s not available for all books, but when it is, you can turn it on or off and choose more and fewer hints. Clicking the short definition opens a longer one from Word Wise and the New Oxford American Dictionary or Oxford Dictionary of English (you can switch between the two), plus translations, and a Wikipedia page, if applicable.
While reading, tap the top of the screen and click “Aa” to change font size or type—there’s even a font called OpenDyslexic that helps make reading easier for people with dyslexia. You can control margin sizes and line spacing from that menu too.
When a Kindle is connected to a Bluetooth speaker or headphones, VoiceView Screen Reader (accessed through Settings > Accessibility) allows you to use gestures to navigate your device and reads aloud what you’ve pressed. It will also read a book aloud, though it doesn’t sound nearly as nice as an audiobook.
Amazon owns Goodreads, so it syncs seamlessly to Kindles (press the three-dot menu > Goodreads). If you have a Goodreads account, you can review the Kindle books you’ve read or browse your bookshelf and recommendations. Long-pressing a word or phrase, in addition to what is mentioned above, opens up an option to share quotes directly to Goodreads.
There’s a web browser too if you’re connected to the internet (three-dot menu > Web Browser). It’s not the best, so I’d reserve it for emergency searches.
How Do You Update a Kindle?
When Amazon releases a new software update, it will download and install to your Kindle automatically when it’s connected to Wi-Fi. You can check if you’re on the latest software by going to Settings > Device Options > Advanced Options > Update Your Kindle. If it’s not on the latest software version, you’ll see an update available and the Kindle will then prompt you to download and install it.
Is This a Good Time to Buy a Kindle?
The best time to buy a Kindle is during a major sale event like Amazon Prime Day or Black Friday, because Amazon often has steep discounts. Amazon Prime Day (and Amazon Big Deals Day, which it named this year’s October sale event) has passed, but Black Friday and Cyber Monday are only a few weeks away.
Amazon refreshed its line of Kindles just last year, so we don’t expect any to be replaced any time soon except for the Kindle Scribe, which Amazon announced in September will have three new models later this year and early next year. Still, those models will cost more than the current one, which you’ll likely find on sale for both Prime Day and Black Friday ahead of the new Kindle Scribe’s launch. I recommend buying the current model while you can if you don’t want to spend more than $500, which is what the new models coming out this year will retail for. There will be a cheaper one next year, but it won’t have a front light, which the second-generation Scribe that’s currently available does have for a cheaper price. The only reason to wait to buy a new model is if you want a color option, as one of the new models will be the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft ($630), Amazon’s first-ever color screen Scribe device.
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In 1996, Guinea-Bissau seemed like an ideal research post for budding pediatrician Lone Graff Stensballe. Her supervisor, a fellow Dane named Peter Aaby, had spent nearly two decades collecting data on 100,000 people living in the mud brick homes of the West African country’s capital.
Aaby and his partner, Christine Stabell Benn, believed that the years of research in the impoverished country had yielded a major discovery about vaccines—and what they described as “non-specific effects”: The measles and tuberculosis vaccines, which were derived from live, weakened viruses and bacteria, they said, boosted child survival beyond protecting against those particular pathogens.
But, the scientists said, shots made from deactivated whole germs, or pieces of them, such as the diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) shot, caused more deaths—especially in little girls—than getting no vaccine at all.
The World Health Organization repeatedly and inconclusively examined these astonishing findings. They tended to elicit shrugs from other global health researchers, who found Aaby’s research techniques unusual and his results generally impossible to replicate.
Then came Donald Trump, Covid, and the administrative reign of anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Suddenly, Aaby and Benn weren’t just sending up distant smoke signals from a far corner of the planet. They were confidently voicing their views and policy prescriptions online and in medical journals. The “framework” for “testing, approving, and regulating vaccines needs to be updated to accommodate non-specific effects,” their team wrote in a 2023 review.
And the Trump administration has taken notice.
“They became more strident in saying that their findings were real and that the world needed to do something about it,” said Kathryn Edwards, a Vanderbilt University vaccinologist who has been aware of Aaby’s work since the 1990s. “And they became more aligned with RFK.”
Kennedy, as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, cited one of Aaby’s papers to justify slashing $2.6 billion in US support for Gavi, a global alliance of vaccination initiatives. The cut could result in 1.2 million preventable deaths over five years in the world’s poorest countries, the nonprofit agency has estimated. Kennedy has frozen $600 million in current Gavi funding over largely debunked vaccine safety claims.
Kennedy described the 2017 paper as a “landmark study” by “five highly regarded mainstream vaccine experts” that found that girls who received a diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis, or DTP, shot were 10 times more likely to die from all causes than unvaccinated children.
In fact, the study was far too small to confidently make such assertions, as Benn acknowledged. In a study of historical data that included 535 girls, four of those vaccinated against DTP in a three-month period of infancy died of unrelated causes, while one unvaccinated girl died during that period. A follow-up published by the same group in 2022 found that the DTP shot by itself had no effect on mortality. Critics say the 2017 study, rather than being a landmark, exemplified the troubling shortfalls they perceive in the Danish team’s research.
As Aaby and Benn’s US profile has risen, scientists in Denmark have set upon the work of their compatriots. In news and journal articles published over the past 18 months, Danish statisticians and infectious disease experts have said the duo’s methods were unorthodox, even shoddy, and were structured to support preconceived views. A national scientific board is investigating their work.
Stensballe, who worked with Aaby and Benn for 20 years, has been among those voicing doubts.
“It took years to see what I see clearly today, that there is a strange concerning pattern in their work,” Stensballe said in a phone interview from Copenhagen, where she treats children at Rigshospitalet, the city’s largest teaching hospital. She said their work is full of confirmation bias—favoring interpretations that fit their hypotheses.
In 2024, nearly all the service providers Gartner profiled in its Magic Quadrant for global WAN services report and the Magic Quadrant for managed network services report said they had started leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) in several ways to support the operation of enterprise networks. Areas of usage include AI for IT operations (AIOps), generative AI (GenAI) as a network assistant, enhanced service delivery, and AI in secure access service edge (SASE) and network security.
AIOps has emerged as a foundational capability in managed networking. Leading service providers, such as HCLTech, Microland and NTT Data, have begun to integrate AIOps capabilities and network automation for service onboarding and customer experience improvements. Also, service providers are deploying AI and/or machine learning (ML) to monitor network health, detect anomalies and automate routine tasks in network operations centres (NOCs).
The goal is to shift from reactive troubleshooting to proactive assurance. For example, if latency on a wide-area network (WAN) link starts spiking intermittently, a machine learning model might recognise the pattern as a precursor to link failure and alert engineers or trigger failover before a major outage occurs.
One such service provider is Tata Communications, which has invested in AI-based fault diagnosis using AI/ML for 85% accuracy, while AI-driven telemetry predicts and addresses issues for proactive network monitoring.
Also, many network equipment suppliers now embed AI features to support service providers for network monitoring.
GenAI as a network assistant
Over the past year, Gartner has seen a great deal of interest from managed network service (MNS) providers in applying GenAI to IT operations, including network management. The vision is to provide a network AI assistant that can interact with the provider’s operations teams via a natural language chat interface, help troubleshoot issues, document networks and even implement changes by generating configurations from intent.
One example is HCLTech, which is focusing on leveraging GenAI integrations with software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) to deliver complete automation for lifecycle operations. It is building a supplier-focused GenAI large language model (LLM) as part of its service delivery platform (SDP).
Enhanced service delivery
AI is also leveraged in customer-facing aspects of MNS. Service providers are increasingly using AI to improve support and transparency for clients. This includes AI-powered customer service bots, service portals, and AI-generated reports or insights.
For example, many MNS providers profiled in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for managed network services report use bots, which are increasingly enhanced with AI capabilities, to automate repetitive tasks. Some have thousands of bots as part of their network automation codebases.
AI in SASE and network security
AI and ML are proving just as critical in the security side of MNS as they are in performance management. In fact, many service providers (for example, XTIUM and Microland) pitch AI-powered enhancements of their network security offerings, where the platform uses advanced analytics, AI and GenAI to strengthen and simplify management of local area network (LAN), WAN and cloud security.
For SASE and network security, AI can be used for automated anomaly detection. Here, the system quarantines a suspicious device or triggers multifactor authentication for a user behaving abnormally.
In policy optimisation, AI can recommend tightening or adjusting security policies, based on observed usage. For example, it can suggest zero-trust rules for an application, based on the context – location, time, company departments and so on.
Some advanced service providers, such as HCLTech, are exploring LLMs to assist security analysts – for example, summarising multistep attacks, or even writing firewall rules based on high-level descriptions of a threat.
Also, many SASE platform suppliers emphasise their AI/ML capabilities. For example, Versa Networks touts AI/ML-powered unified SASE that blends SD-WAN and cloud security, using ML to continuously adapt to network conditions and security threats. Similarly, Cato Networks highlights that it leverages AI/ML across its cloud-native SASE service to provide “reliable, accurate network security”, applying advanced data science to threat prevention and smart traffic management.
AI in MNS in 2028 and beyond
The integration of AI in MNS will increasingly enhance operational efficiency and enable more informed decision-making, ensuring that networks are robust and agile enough to adapt to changing demands and traffic patterns. Looking ahead three to five years from now, significant transformation in MNS is expected due to extensive use of AI – traditional, generative and agentic – and automation.
Widespread NOC assistants
The current rapid pace of development suggests that, by 2028, GenAI will have become a mature, trusted assistant in network operations. The experimental and nascent deployments of 2023 to 2024 will give way to robust network AI assistants embedded in MNS workflows.
These assistants will interface through natural language (text or voice) and be integrated with monitoring and ticketing systems. They will be able to answer complex queries about the network, draft change plans, and summarise incidents and problems.
Essentially, if 2023 was the introductory year for network AI assistants (see What is a network AI assistant?), by 2028, they will become a standard capability for NOCs to boost productivity.
The models behind the AI assistants are expected to be more specialised in network engineering and fine-tuned with each provider’s historical data, making them more accurate and context-aware than current tools are.
The best providers will leverage proprietary models – or at least proprietary fine-tuning – that become part of their intellectual property. For example, a provider can use a model trained on years of network event management data, which is exceptionally good at diagnosing telecoms network issues or in network security design efficacy. This will be a differentiator versus others that are using off-the-shelf network AI assistants.
By 2028, agentic AI will likely manifest as automated “Tier 0” responders in NOCs. These are AI agents capable of perceiving network incidents, understanding intent, making autonomous decisions, and executing actions for handling specific tasks and incident types end-to-end without human intervention.
By 2028, it is likely that many service providers will have enabled fully automated remediation for known issues. For example, if a branch SD-WAN router goes offline, the AI agent can perceive the incident, decide on a sequence of fixes – restart a virtual instance, fail over to backup, and so on – and execute them. It will alert a human only if those fail.
Another example could be the detection of a known bug, such as a memory leak in a firewall causing a slowdown. The AI agent, after perceiving the issue, will decide on a temporary configuration workaround or initiate a software patch, and execute these actions.
This goes beyond today’s static scripts by adding autonomous decision-making and action. The agent can verify if the issue truly matches a known pattern, using machine learning, and check if conditions are safe to execute the fix now, using policy – for example, it will reboot after business hours only if it is critical.
Fully autonomous networks will likely remain out of reach until well after 2028. But we expect that, by 2028, such self-healing actions will be accepted for narrow scopes, as service providers will have gained trust in AI for these repetitive tasks, thanks to long training and previous successful outcomes.
Nevertheless, the complexity of coordinating across domains means humans will still handle high-level decision-making. But for routine faults and performance tweaks, automated agents could become the norm, improving service reliability.
This article is based on an excerpt of Gartner’s AI will transform managed network services in the next three years report, by Gartner senior director analyst Gaspar Valdivia.
Once configured, setup proceeds much like the Aiper and pricier Irrigreen apps: You create a zone, then use the app to define its boundaries. Similar to the aforementioned systems, Oto’s sprinkler is designed for precision watering, firing water in a beam in a single direction instead of a wide spray. That said, Oto’s spray is comparably narrow, only hitting a single, designated patch instead of producing a two-dimensional curtain of water like Irrigreen’s “water printing” system. You get a nice preview of this as you set the boundaries of your yard.
Like its competitors, Oto lets you set each zone as a spot (for watering a single tree, perhaps), a line (for a flowerbed), or a 2-D area (for a yard). I tested all of these modes but spent most of my time working with area zones, which are the most complex option. When defining an area zone, I found Oto’s system to be virtually identical to that of Irrigreen and Aiper, though ever so slightly slower to respond to commands. Even so, it’s very easy to use: A simple interface lets you drop points around the sprinkler to define the boundaries of the zone. When you’ve made a full circle around the sprinkler, the area is complete.
Once configured, you can assign each zone a schedule, with copious options available around which days to water (odd days, even days, select days of the week, every day), and designate a start time (though there is no tying time to sundown or sunrise). Each schedule also gets a weekly watering limit (in inches of depth), which you’ll then parse out over each week’s watering runs. Weather intelligence features let you elect to skip watering if your zip code receives measurable rainfall or if winds are high (both based on internet reports); the user can tweak both the amount of rain and windspeed needed to trigger a skip. The app logs the 20 most recent runs and includes a calendar that details upcoming events.
When watering an area, Oto takes a novel approach to covering the lawn, first moving in circular arcs directly around the sprinkler, then slowly increasing in range with each successive swipe. When finished, it does additional “clean-up” runs to hit any areas that the initial watering arcs didn’t reach. The speed is slow enough and the size of the water’s beam is large enough that the resulting coverage is solid. After test runs, I found the yard to be plenty wet across the entire zone, with no dry patches.
As with all sprinklers, changes in water pressure can make for occasional over- or underwatering of areas, but I found this to be a minimal problem when using the Oto. However, when watering at the terminus of Oto’s range, the power needed to throw the water that far can make for a strong splashdown, which may result in some soil erosion or damage to more sensitive plants.
The Oto also has a “play mode” option that lets you use the sprinkler for a watery game of chase or a more random “splash tag” mode, aka “try to avoid getting hit by the water.” Pro tip: It’s impossible not to get hit.
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