Carrying round a full stack of bodily books isn’t sensible, however an e-reader permits you to take a full library with you wherever. Fortunately, Amazon’s newest Kindle is at present on sale at Amazon, Best Buy, and Target in its ad-supported configuration for $79.99 ($30 off) or without ads for $99.99 ($30 off), which is a brand new low worth. Amazon, Best Buy, and Target have additionally discounted the newest Kindle Paperwhite with adverts to $124.99 ($35 off), which is simply the second time it’s been out there at this worth. The ad-free Kindle Paperwhite is all the way down to $144.99 ($35 off) at Amazon for the primary time.
Amazon’s newest Kindle is our favorite inexpensive e-reader, and it’s a stable selection in case you’re simply stepping into e-books. It options USB-C charging and a six-inch 300ppi E-ink show, which is way much less reflective than the LCD or OLED display in your cellphone. It’s additionally outfitted with 16GB of storage — sufficient to carry 1000’s of books — and a battery that may last as long as six weeks per cost. It might probably additionally retailer and play audiobooks in case you join a Bluetooth speaker or pair of headphones, although, be conscious that audiobooks use significantly extra storage than e-books.
As for compatibility, you should purchase titles from Amazon’s digital bookstore immediately on the Kindle, or purchase them on one other machine and obtain them on the e-reader later. You too can sync personal documents in different file codecs, together with PDFs, utilizing the Kindle app in your cellphone or the net. The essential Kindle doesn’t have further options like waterproofing or bodily page-turning buttons, nevertheless it’s nonetheless an excellent selection at its present sale worth.
In order for you one thing extra absolutely featured, there’s the Eleventh-gen Paperwhite, which we’d argue is the best Kindle for most individuals due to its inclusion of a number of options you gained’t discover on the entry-level mannequin. The primary is that it sports activities a bigger, 7-inch 300ppi show with an adjustable heat white frontlight, which helps you to tint the show to make studying at night time simpler in your eyes. It additionally gives twice as a lot battery life because the entry-level mannequin (six weeks vs. 12 weeks), although, like Amazon’s most cost-effective e-reader, it’s restricted to 16GB of storage.
If you happen to’re involved about velocity, the newest Paperwhite is about 20 p.c sooner than prior fashions, which suggests pages will load extra rapidly as you flip them. An IPX8 ranking, in the meantime, can supply some extra peace of thoughts in case you learn on the seaside, by the pool, or whereas taking a shower. It ought to have the ability to face up to as much as two meters of contemporary water for as much as an hour, which, frankly, is greater than sufficient safety for most folk.