Ha!
Hm, I wonder how old my paperwhite is now...I have managed to lose all the charging cables with the right connector (for values of "lose" = "they aren't right next to where I currently have my kindle sitting or where I thought I was keeping them") so I haven't charged it up in a bit, not sure if it actually works...
I have two paperwhites—one is very old and I had lost it at a friend’s house for several months and bought a new one (also because the new one was waterproof). The other day I couldn’t find the new one so was like crap and charged up the old one…finally figured out why I thought I’d read this one book but didn’t remember anything about it—I was like 25% in on the old one and never finished it!