It’s funny how Amazon releases new Kindles very infrequently, and yet when they do come out with a new model they tend to offer a bunch of different sub-versions of it. Sometimes I poke fun at Onyx for replacing their most popular models every 6-12 months to capitalize on people’s desire to have the latest […]
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Kindle Paperwhite Kids on Sale, But Not Other Kindles?
Something weird is going on with Amazon, again. This past Black Friday when they last put the Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite on sale the prices were the highest “sale” prices of the year. In fact $119 for the 8GB Paperwhite 5 was the highest on-sale price ever, at only $20 off. Now Valentine’s Day is […]
Beware of Airplane Mode on Kindles if You Sideload Books
A few months back I posted about an ongoing problem affecting some Kindles that’s causing them to suddenly delete all sideloaded content under certain circumstances. Nobody seems to know what the exact cause is, and it’s been going on for a long time now. I keep seeing people posting about the disappearing books bug on […]
Kindle Scribe Sales Numbers Tank When it’s Not on Sale
Earlier in the month I posted an article about Kindle sales numbers now that Amazon has started showing a general estimate of how many units they’ve sold over the past month for most products. The sales numbers for the Kindle Scribe were the most surprising because a lot of people, myself included, had assumed it […]
How to Disable Web Browser and Store Access on Kindles
People sometimes ask if it’s possible to restrict access to the Kindle store and the web browser on Kindles, so for this post I’ll show you how to do that. If you’re going to loan your Kindle to someone, or if you’d like to use it as a kids Kindle without all the restrictions of […]
Software Update 5.16.6.1 Released for Kindle Scribe
Amazon has released another Kindle software update for the second time this month, but this time the update is only available for the Kindle Scribe. They tacked on a “.1” to the previous update so now the current software version for the Kindle Scribe is 5.16.6.1, while the 10th and 11th generation Kindles are still […]
Is the Kindle Paperwhite Better with a 6.8″ or 6″ Screen?
Amazon has released five different generations of Kindle Paperwhite models since 2012 when the first one came out (which, oddly, is called the Kindle Paperwhite 6th generation using Amazon’s naming standards). The first three Paperwhite models shared the same design, and all had 6-inch E Ink displays, although Amazon upgraded the screen technology along the […]
Why is Text-to-Speech so Difficult to Use on Kindles?
Kindles have a text-to-speech feature that most people probably don’t know about, and the voice actually sounds fairly decent once you figure out how to get it to work, but the process of using text-to-speech is so convoluted and confusing on Kindles I doubt very many people would want to use it. It makes you […]