Amazon is running another sale on Kindle ereaders and Fire tablets exclusively for Amazon Prime members. The deal takes $40 off the price of the Kindle Paperwhite and Fire HD 10, taking the price down to $79 and $109 respectively, and the regular Kindle is marked down to $49 and the Kindle for Kids bundle […]
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Why Was the Kindle Voyage Discontinued?
Amazon quietly phased out the Kindle Voyage over the summer. First it started disappearing from Amazon’s international websites, and then around the end of July they stopped selling it new in the US from Amazon.com. Now it’s only available used and refurbished, and occasionally new when they find a few laying around. So why did […]
Kindle Oasis 2 DecalGirl Skin Review – Save Your Money
A couple weeks ago I posted about skins for the Kindle Oasis 2, and I decided to order a skin from DecalGirl. I wanted to try putting a skin on the 2nd gen Kindle Oasis to see if it would help give the device more of a book-like feel instead of the cold, slick feel […]
Too Bad Other Companies Can’t Make Kindles Too
One of the worst things about Amazon completely dominating the ebook market is the fact it locks people into using Kindle apps and Kindle ebook readers. This isn’t really even Amazon’s fault; if publishers didn’t insist on locking down their ebooks with pointless DRM (pointless because it can easily be removed for free by anybody, […]
New Fire HD 8 Tablet Getting Released with Hands-Free Alexa
Today Amazon announced the upcoming release of a new Fire HD 8 tablet, except it’s pretty much exactly the same as the last Fire HD 8. In fact the only real noteworthy change seems to be that addition of hands-free Alexa support, which was previously only available on the Fire HD 10. With the older […]
E Ink Report Seems to Suggest No New Kindles This Year
Earlier this year the chairman for E Ink told investors that shipments of ereader displays would be down for the first half of 2018, and that turned out to be true. Now in a new report in an article over at the Taipei Times, E Ink’s president seems to imply that no new Kindles will […]
Amazon Kindle Oasis 2nd Gen Skins
I recently posted a review of a matte screen protector for the 2018 iPad, and while I don’t like how fuzzy it makes the screen look, I really like how the matte screen protector feels. It has sort of textured paper feel to it. That got me thinking it would be nice if ebook readers […]
Big Gap in Kindle Lineup Now that Kindle Voyage is Gone
The Kindle Voyage has been unavailable new from Amazon.com since the end of last month, and it’s been gone from some of Amazon’s international websites for a lot longer than that, so it’s fairly safe to assume that it isn’t coming back at this point, especially since they removed it from the Kindle comparison tables […]