[BillinghamJ]

Normal Kindle is more like black-on-beige, whereas the paperwhite/voyage one is black-on-white. Personally I don't like the look of the normal one.

Also you may be surprised at how much you use the backlight. Especially when reading in bed, on airplanes, etc. - it's pretty useful.

[higherpurpose]

It's FRONTlight, not a backlight. Otherwise we could just use LCD tablet instead. And yes, I agree, I think the light is great and indispensable.