The eBook Reader Blog

Just like all the other Kindle comparison reviews that I’ve done over the past few years, when comparing the Kindle Paperwhite 3 with the new entry-level Kindle for 2016 the differences all come down to hardware. All the current Kindles from the $379 Kindle Oasis 3G down to the new $79 Kindle have the same […]

The new entry-level $79 Kindle for 2016 was officially released yesterday. It has an updated design and it adds Bluetooth support for the VoiceView and text-to-speech accessibility features, but for the most part it isn’t much different than the previous entry-level Kindle. The new model has more RAM so that it can run the VoiceView […]

There was a brief window when the 7th gen line of Kindles could be jailbroken, but it didn’t last for long before Amazon released a software update closing the hole, and for a long time the only way to root was to take apart the Kindle. Now there’s a new jailbreaking method for Kindles that […]

I was thinking the other day that Amazon should have done something more to make the new Kindle release more interesting, like automatically adding access to Kindle Unlimited for a month or two. After all, it’s still basically the exact same Kindle as before just in a new shell. It’s slightly thinner and slightly lighter, […]

Yesterday Amazon announced a new entry-level Kindle, the 8th generation model, that gets released two weeks from today on July 7th. It’s thinner and lighter than the previous Kindle, and it comes with Bluetooth to connect speakers and headphone to use the VoiceView and text-to-speech accessibility features that were recently introduced with the release of […]

Amazon has a new Kindle available for pre-order from their website. The official release date is set for July 7th. It’s an updated version of their entry-level Kindle. It has a new thinner and lighter design, and now it’s available in white as well as black. The Kindle Paperwhite 3 is available in white now […]

A reader sent in an email over the weekend commenting about how they were at a retail store and noticed some ereaders on display, and they thought the build quality of current devices is vastly inferior to what was available a few years ago. In some ways I have to agree with that sentiment. The […]

A number of folks are disappointed with Amazon for removing the dots in list view that gave a visual representation of each Kindle book’s length on the Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Voyage, and the basic Kindle Touch. The latest 5.7.2 software update brought big changes to the Kindle’s user interface, especially the homescreen, and the reading-length […]