Amazon’s New Kindle Lineup Includes the First-Ever Color Kindle

Amazon’s humble Kindle has had a spot of a resurgence, partially acknowledgment to #BookTok—the assemblage of TikTok users who sermon literature, publication lists, and, among different things, ways to platform retired Kindle ebook readers with accessories. Amazon says Kindle income person grown successful double-digit percentages for the past 2 years, which astir apt explains wherefore the institution is announcing 4 caller Kindles today—the archetypal clip it has unveiled this galore caller models successful a azygous moment.

Amazon’s instrumentality and services pb Panos Panay, who utilized to tally Microsoft's Surface division, didn't shy distant from flaunting conscionable however fashionable Kindles person go during a hardware briefing connected Tuesday. On Kindle devices, users work an mean of 20.8 cardinal pages per month. Sixty percent of Kindle instrumentality income successful 2023 came from first-time customers. “Seeing the highest income of Kindle successful implicit a decade, customers are speechmaking much than ever,” Panay says. “It’s astir like, convey goodness, due to the fact that I thought we forgot however to read.”

It has been a fewer years since the fashionable gadget—now successful its 17th year—received a monolithic facelift crossed each its models. The astir caller Kindle Paperwhite (11th generation) launched successful 2021, portion the entry-level Kindle (11th Gen), Kindle Scribe, and Kindle Kids came retired successful 2022. Within that time, competitors similar Kobo and Boox person released competing models with colour e-paper displays, page-turn buttons (a diagnostic we haven't seen connected a Kindle since the Oasis), stylus support, and more.

To drawback up, Amazon has four caller Kindles: Kindle (12th Gen), Kindle Paperwhite (12th Gen), Kindle Scribe (2nd Gen), and the all-new Kindle Colorsoft—its first-ever colour e-reader. Panay calls it “the largest displacement of the Kindle lineup successful years."

The Kindle Colorsoft

Color physics insubstantial displays person deed the crushed moving this twelvemonth with devices similar the Kobo Libra Colour and the ReMarkable Paper Pro. But it's harmless to accidental anticipation has been precocious for a colour Kindle. With the Colorsoft, publication covers, photos, and images volition look successful color. You'll besides beryllium capable to adhd colour highlights successful books, and these volition beryllium searchable, truthful you don't person to hunt done pages to find that paragraph you highlighted.

The Colorsoft's features are precise akin to the caller Kindle Paperwhite (see below), but Amazon says the show exertion is much intricate. The 7-inch show has an oxide backplane that Amazon says volition present speedy show and a higher opposition connected colour and black-and-white content. To support the colors from bleeding unneurotic and support accuracy, the institution had to fiddle with the beforehand airy and utilized nitride LEDs to heighten colour and summation brightness. You tin take betwixt modular oregon vibrant colour styles and zoom successful connected images (without pixelation).

Fast leafage turns are the adjacent large summation here, but determination inactive are nary dedicated page-turn buttons connected the device. You get enactment for Qi wireless charging and up to 8 weeks of artillery life. It comes with the aforesaid auto-adjust airy recovered connected the Kindle Signature Paperwhite, which automatically adjusts the screen's brightness based connected your environment.

The Kindle Colorsoft costs $280 and is disposable for preorder now. It ships connected October 30.

A New Kindle

The basal Kindle gets the tiniest update of each these devices. It remains the company's smallest and astir affordable Kindle model. Since its predecessor launched successful 2022—with a higher-resolution surface (300 pixels per inch versus 197 PPI), treble the retention (from 8 gigabytes to 16), and a USB-C port—the latest mentation doesn't travel with galore caller upgrades.

The large changes see a faster page-turn complaint truthful there's little hold portion reading, a higher opposition ratio truthful that substance looks some crisper and clearer, and a 25 percent brighter beforehand airy astatine the highest setting. This exemplary still doesn't travel with auto-adjusting airy oregon lukewarm lighting. The second is particularly disappointing, arsenic a Kindle's large selling constituent is the capableness to work astatine nighttime without a lamp. For immoderate people, the lukewarm airy feels easier connected the eyes (especially earlier bed). It's an unusual diagnostic to gatekeep.

It comes successful a caller Matcha color, which whitethorn beryllium attributable to the popularity of the Agave Green Kindle Paperwhite. Since its motorboat past year, the greenish ebook scholar has gone viral connected TikTok and is often sold retired connected Amazon. But you tin besides bargain the caller Kindle successful achromatic for a much muted tone.

The Kindle costs $110 (a $10 terms bump implicit its predecessor), and you tin bid it now. It ships immediately.

Amazon besides launched a new Kindle Kids edition. It comes with each the aforesaid features arsenic the modular version, including a faster page-turn rate, a higher opposition ratio, and a brighter screen. But it besides comes with a kid-friendly lawsuit (Amazon released a fewer caller designs, too), a year's subscription to Amazon Kids+ subscription (the kid-friendly contented library), parental controls, and a two-year warranty.

A New Kindle Paperwhite

Amazon says the Kindle Paperwhite is “the astir fashionable Kindle utilized today.” The institution was cautious not to marque immoderate drastic changes and amended connected existing features. The finished product? It's the thinnest, fastest, and sharpest Paperwhite yet.

The Paperwhite has 25 percent faster leafage turns to trim lag portion scrolling. The show is somewhat larger. By shrinking the bezels astir the screen, the institution accrued the show size from 6.8 inches to 7 inches without drastically changing the tablet's dimensions. It uses an oxide thin-film transistor, which Amazon says gives it the highest opposition ratio of immoderate Kindle, delivering sharper substance and images. Battery beingness is up excessively from a small much than 2 months to 3 months connected a azygous charge. Like its predecessors, it's waterproof and includes 16 GB of storage.

There's besides the Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition, which has each the aforesaid features arsenic the modular Paperwhite positive an auto-adjusting beforehand light, wireless charging, and treble the retention astatine 32 GB. Both versions besides travel successful caller colors including Metallic Raspberry, Metallic Jade, and Metallic Black.

The Kindle Paperwhite and Paperwhite Signature Edition are disposable present for $160 and $200, respectively, and they vessel immediately.

Amazon besides announced an all-new Kindle Paperwhite Kids. It has each the aforesaid features arsenic the modular Paperwhite—it's faster, thinner, and brighter—but comes with kid-friendly cases, immoderate of which diagnostic caller designs. It besides comes with a year's subscription to Amazon Kids+ subscription (its kid-friendly contented library), parental controls, and a two-year warranty.

The 2nd-Gen Kindle Scribe

The second-generation Kindle Scribe, designed for note-taking and reading, comes with a fewer caller features connected the wrong and out. The show sports achromatic borders with a paper-like show to mimic the look of a accepted expanse of paper. Meanwhile, the Premium Pen (sold separately) present has a soft-tipped eraser that feels similar the 1 you'd find connected a No. 2 pencil.

There are a fewer caller bundle features successful the Scribe too. There's Active Canvas, which allows you to constitute straight wrong the publication you're speechmaking (this was a large ailment we had with the original erstwhile we reviewed it). While making notes, it'll travel astir the substance and anchor the ink to the nonstop spot you annotated. That way, if you resize the substance oregon the publication layout changes, it won't suffer its spot. In the future, you'll besides beryllium capable to instrumentality vantage of expandable margins—so you tin constitute successful the broadside sheet and fell the notes erstwhile you're done.

And if you thought you were harmless from generative artificial quality successful a hardware motorboat communicative astir Kindles, you were wrong. Say hullo to “Refined Writing” and “Summarization.” With Refined Writing, you tin pat a fastener to refine your notes into a publication font truthful that it's legible but besides looks much presentable. Summarization rapidly summarizes pages of notes into bullets wrong a publication font that you tin stock straight from the notebook tab.

You tin preorder the caller Kindle Scribe present for $400, and it ships connected December 4.