At WIRED, we're large fans of Kindles. It's an fantabulous solution for bookworms who ever privation entree to tons of books connected the spell successful a compact, lightweight signifier factor. But they tin beryllium expensive. If you've been holding disconnected connected buying one, you're successful luck, due to the fact that our favourite models are presently discounted during Amazon's October Prime Day sale.
As a reminder, we don't urge thing we don't test, and we trial year-round. If you don't spot thing you similar here, don't hide to cheque retired our guides to the Best Kindles, Best Ebook Readers, and Best Ebook Subscriptions. As always, you request an Amazon Prime rank to get the woody price, but you tin motion up for a escaped proceedings and Prime offers plentifulness of perks.
WIRED Featured Deals
- The cheapest Kindle: Standard Kindle for $80 ($20 off)
- The note-taking Kindle: Kindle Scribe for $255 ($85 off)
- A Kindle for kids: Kindle Paperwhite Kids Edition for $115 ($52 off)
- A publication airy for the non-Kindlers: Vekkia 14 LED Book Light for $15 ($14 off)
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Kindle Deals
This is presently our favourite Kindle. It packs a 6.8-inch show with tiny bezels, adjustable lukewarm lighting, and 16 gigabytes of storage. It besides comes with a USB-C larboard for wireless charging. We besides suggest spending the other $20 to get escaped of lockscreen ads. We are seeing rumors that new Kindles are coming, and Amazon does upgrade the Paperwhite regularly. However, this exemplary inactive performs precise well.
This is the basal Kindle and the smallest option. Coming successful astatine 6.2 inches gangly and 4.3-inches wide, it's a large prime if you find the Kindle excessively unwieldy to clasp with 1 hand. The 6-inch surface besides comes with 300 pixels per inch—an summation from the 197 ppi connected its predecessor. Other updates see an summation from 8 gigabytes to 16 and a USB-C larboard for charging. Unfortunately, it doesn't travel with lukewarm lighting oregon auto-adjusting brightness, and it isn't waterproof.
We urge the Scribe (8/10, WIRED Recommends) for note-taking and drawing. Because it's a Kindle, the speechmaking acquisition is inactive seamless, but the ample 10.2-inch surface is perfect for taking notes, marking up PDFs, and illustrating. However, we don't urge it for nonrecreational artists who privation thing a spot much complex. You besides can't constitute connected publication pages (for those who similar to annotate portion reading), and it isn't waterproof. You'll besides person the prime betwixt 16-, 32-, and 64-gigabyte options.
This is our favourite Kindle for kids. It comes with a kid-friendly contented library, parental controls, a year's subscription to Amazon Kids+, and a two-year warranty. It besides has a high-resolution 300-ppi show and the quality to power betwixt airy and acheronian modes. We've seen it dip somewhat little successful the past, betwixt $105 and $110, but this is inactive a coagulated deal.
Kindle Accessory Deals
This is simply a large accessory if you're looking for a much comfy mode to clasp your Kindle. The brushed silicone straps connect to the backmost of the e-reader and supply you with a amended spot to remainder your hands. It's disposable successful aggregate sizes depending connected the benignant of e-reader you have.
The modular Amazon cloth screen isn't connected sale, but if you privation to support your Kindle from damage, we urge a cover. These unfastened similar a publication and travel successful assorted colors, including blue, pink, green, and black. They're besides made from post-consumer recycled fabric. This is for the basal Kindle, but it's besides disposable for the Paperwhite.
WIRED reviewer Nena Farrell tested this and said it makes for a ace convenient and comfy experience, particularly if you person immoderate sources of chronic symptom successful your hands and wrists. The clamp is casual to connect to furniture frames and broadside tables. and it's lightweight capable to usage anyplace (with capable absorption to the cervix that it won't autumn guardant oregon retired of the presumption you spot it in).
This is our apical prime successful our usher to The Best Reading Lights. It's a clip-on with an adjustable gooseneck and 2 swiveling airy bars that battalion 7 LEDs each. You tin besides rhythm done 5 levels of brightness and 3 colour somesthesia modes, arsenic good arsenic six brightness settings.
This is my favourite speechmaking light. It looks a small silly, but it's an fantabulous alternate to a clip-on speechmaking light. It's adjustable, lightweight, and comes with 3 colour somesthesia modes arsenic good arsenic six brightness settings. It's rechargeable too, with up to 80 hours of artillery beingness erstwhile connected the dimmer settings.