The eBook Reader Blog

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 […]

Amazon has just put up a new bundle deal offer for the latest Kindle Paperwhite and it’s actually a pretty good deal. The Kindle Paperwhite Audible bundle includes the waterproof Kindle Paperwhite and a pair of Bluetooth headphones, along with a free three month trial for Audible audiobooks. They’re selling the bundle for $209 with […]

Amazon released the new waterproof Kindle Paperwhite earlier this month, and if you look closely on the product page you’ll find a link to a page with additional information about the Kindle Paperwhite’s waterproofing. It’s basically the same exact thing they said about the Kindle Oasis 2 when it was released last year. Waterproof is […]

After six years with the same Kindle Paperwhite design, Amazon finally changed things up a bit with the release of the Kindle Paperwhite 4. At its core it’s still mostly the same as the previous Paperwhite model, but the changes they did make bring it closer to the Kindle Oasis than ever before, and yet […]

Last Thursday Amazon put the Kindle Paperwhite 3 on sale for $79 for one of their Black Friday deals, but at the time that was for their Special Offers version with advertisements on the lockscreen and homescreen, and typically if you don’t want to see the ads it costs an extra $20 to get the […]