The eBook Reader Blog

Amazon has the new waterproof Kindle Paperwhite on sale today only for one of their main Deals of the Day. The new Kindle Paperwhite is marked down to just $89, its lowest price yet, and all versions are on sale, including the 32GB model. This is a 1-day sale only for January 21st, 2019. It’s […]

Have you noticed how the new Kindle Paperwhite takes longer to turn on after it’s been turned off for awhile? It now shows a “Waking Up” screen that takes a few extra seconds to load before the device will turn on. This happens because of a new Power Saver setting that is enabled by default […]

Here’s a quick review of the water-safe fabric cover for the new Kindle Paperwhite. The water-safe fabric cover sells for $29.99 from Amazon. It’s available in black, blue, and yellow. It’s not waterproof like the new Kindle Paperwhite; Amazon calls it “water-safe”. Water beads up on it and doesn’t really soak in so you can […]

If you got a new Kindle Paperwhite this holiday season and want to open up the software to install other reading apps and software tweaks, there’s a handy jailbreaking tutorial over at MobileRead with step-by-step directions on how to jailbreak the new Kindle Paperwhite 4. The most important thing to do is to keep Wi-Fi […]

Ever since the new Kindle Paperwhite was released, there’s been some confusion about the screen. Some folks think it has a glass screen and other people say it has a plastic screen. First off, let’s define what part of the screen we’re referring to, because some people probably aren’t talking about the same thing. All […]

Amazon put the new waterproof Kindle Paperwhite on sale for $99 earlier in the week, and it must be selling well because most variants are currently on backorder until December 25th, according to Amazon’s website. In fact the only version of the new Kindle Paperwhite that’s currently in stock is the most expensive version with […]

One question that frequently comes up now that the new Kindle Paperwhite supports Audible audiobooks is can it be used to read along while an audiobook is playing? Amazon calls this feature Immersion Reading. It’s available on some Kindle apps and Fire tablets, and it highlights the words as the audiobook reads them aloud, but […]

Amazon hasn’t been offering very many good deals on Kindles this holiday shopping season, aside from their Paperwhite 3 clearance sale, but that finally changed last night when they put the new Kindle Paperwhite 4 on sale for the first time in the US. You can get the 8GB Kindle Paperwhite for $99 and they’ve […]