The Best Kindle of 2025: Paperwhite, Scribe, or Colorsoft?

Comparing Our Favorite Kindles

What About the New Kindle Scribes?

I got to trial 2 of Amazon's caller Kindles, the Kindle Scribe ($500) and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft ($630), though the Scribe Colorsoft won't commencement shipping until January. Both person a akin look, though the Scribe Colorsoft has a colour surface and a shorter artillery beingness (only 8 weeks of speechmaking time, compared with 12 weeks for the black-and-white Scribes). Both person a new, taller plan with an 11-inch screen, somewhat slimmer signifier factor, and updated stylus. They some besides person a quad-core spot and person a caller homepage, volition enactment a assortment of AI features including AI hunt (along with immoderate AI tools for summarizing books you're speechmaking without giving spoilers, but those won't get until adjacent year). Users tin link to Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive to people up documents.

Overall, I'd accidental they're bully devices, but arsenic agelong arsenic the cheaper second-generation Kindle Scribe is available, I deliberation it's the amended buy. It besides has AI capabilities and volition get the aforesaid updated location leafage adjacent year, truthful you truly don't request to upgrade. I'm besides disappointed that these outgo truthful much; for the terms of the Scribe Colorsoft, you could get the much almighty reMarkable Paper Pro, which besides has a colour surface but tin treble arsenic an e-paper tablet and astir laptop with its keyboard accessories.

There's a basal exemplary Kindle Scribe without the beforehand airy ($430) owed retired adjacent year, but arsenic idiosyncratic who loves to work successful the dark, I don't emotion this concept. We'll spot however I consciousness erstwhile it arrives; this usher volition beryllium updated with investigating notes erstwhile it's available.

Accessories for Easier Reading

If you've ever had a agelong speechmaking league that gives you manus cramps, these accessories mightiness help. You tin cheque retired much options successful our Best Kindle Accessories guide.

Strapsicle E-Reader Hand Straps for $20: Attach 1 oregon some of these to the backmost of your Kindle—one is angled for your close manus and the different for your left—and descent your manus in. Your hands won't cramp, you won't accidentally deed the surface and flip pages, and the scholar won't gaffe retired of your hands. There are 3 sizes meant to clasp antithetic types of e-readers. You should spot precisely which models they enactment with connected the Amazon pages, arsenic good arsenic connected this leafage connected the Strapsicle website.

Lamicall Gooseneck Tablet Holder for $18: I emotion this device. While I wouldn't telephone it wholly hands-free, it’s a ace convenient and comfy experience, peculiarly if you person chronic symptom successful your wrists. The clamp is casual to connect to furniture frames and broadside tables (there’s besides a floor basal mentation for $60). It’s lightweight to deploy anyplace and has capable absorption to the cervix that it doesn’t autumn guardant oregon retired of the presumption you spot it in. It did wobble a spot erstwhile I touched it to crook the leafage (or it got bumped by a funny cat), truthful I usually support a remainder manus connected it to clasp it steady. If you privation to spell afloat hands-free, adhd a page-turner remote truthful you tin work without lifting a finger.

PopSockets PopGrips starting astatine $10: PopSockets PopGrips aren't conscionable for your phone. They besides enactment large connected e-readers if paired with a MagSafe lawsuit oregon adhesive ring. The much affordable PopSockets enactment with adhesive, portion the much costly ones usage MagSafe adapters, letting you instrumentality them connected and disconnected without leaving sticky residue behind. My idiosyncratic favourite is the Heart of Silver ($40), since it's a larger PopSockets and I person tiny hands. The Heart of Silver 1 makes the seven-inch Kindle Paperwhite and Colorsoft truly comfy to hold, and comes with an adapter ringing to person immoderate lawsuit you person into a MagSage one.

Nomad 65W Slim Power Adapter for $55: Kindles person agelong artillery life, but erstwhile WIRED reviewer Brenda Stolyar liked to transportation a charger with her connected the spell just successful case. This 1 from Nomad is her favorite. It's ace bladed and comes with 2 USB-C ports, truthful she uses it to complaint her e-reader and telephone simultaneously (the near broadside delivers 45 watts and the close delivers 20 watts erstwhile charging 2 devices astatine the aforesaid time). The prongs besides fold up, truthful it fits nicely successful the broadside pouch of a bag.

Best Kindle Cases and Covers

Amazon Kindles are, thankfully, not arsenic fragile arsenic our pricey smartphones, but you whitethorn inactive privation to adhd a screen to support the surface if you're often toting it astir successful a bag. These aren't padded for superior drops, but are the champion Kindle cases we've recovered for regular extortion from scratches and scuffs. The Kids' editions travel with cases.

PopSockets PopCase Kindle for $40: These Kindle cases are designed with a MagSafe adapter successful the back, truthful you tin easy adhd a MagSafe PopSockets grip to the back. You utilized to person to adhere the grip oregon bargain a MagSafe adapter to usage PopSockets connected your Kindle, but present you tin customize freely with these cases. These cases are besides a bully quality, but they don't see a cover, and the grip tin lone beryllium attached to the predetermined little halfway spot. If you person smaller hands similar I do, get 1 of the bigger PopGrips, similar the Heart of Silver ($40) oregon Heart of Gold ($40) to much easy scope it.

Fabric Covers for Kindle for $32 and Paperwhite for $37: These unfastened similar a publication and travel successful immoderate saltation of black, blue, pink, oregon green. They're made from postconsumer recycled fabric.

Fabric Cover for Scribe for $60: This 1 flips up and implicit similar a notepad, and you tin presumption it into a stand, too. There's besides a slot for the pen if you don't privation it to connect it magnetically each the time. It's besides made with recycled materials. It's designed for the second-generation exemplary of the Scribe that I prefer.

The Bookish Kindle Cases starting astatine $36: I truly similar that this screen besides has a built-in strap, truthful you tin bask the information of a manus strap portion speechmaking and person the extortion of a screen erstwhile you're not. There are a clump of amusive colors, too.

The Quirky Cup Collective E-Reader Sleeve for $29: Our squad loves these gorgeous sleeves, peculiarly the Sun and Moon version. They're beauteous and volition support your instrumentality erstwhile you aren't utilizing it, truthful you tin propulsion it successful your container without worry. The extracurricular is velvet and the wrong is satin, with immoderate padding successful betwixt and a zip closure. On the backmost is simply a tiny zip pocket. On each merchandise page, you'll spot which devices fit, but consult the measurements. There are besides separate, larger book and iPad sleeves (starting astatine $38).

CoBak Clear Case for $9: The champion portion astir having a wide lawsuit is that it protects the backmost of your Kindle and allows you to decorate it with stickers underneath.

Great Reading Lights

If you work earlier furniture but don't privation to disturb sleeping partner, kids, oregon roommates, put successful a speechmaking light. All the Kindles present person a beforehand light, truthful you don't need one, but these tin inactive beryllium handy, particularly if you power betwixt your e-reader and carnal books. Below are a fewer of our favorites. You tin find much successful our Best Reading Lights guide.

Vekkia 14 LED Book Light for $16: This is our apical pick. It's a clip-on airy with an adjustable gooseneck and 2 swiveling airy bars that battalion 7 LEDs each. You tin rhythm done 5 levels of brightness and 3 lukewarm colors. It's comparatively large, though, truthful it's not large for tiny paperbacks. The clamp opens arsenic wide arsenic 2.1 inches and serves arsenic a unchangeable basal to spot connected a nightstand.

Glocusent LED Neck Reading Light for $22: This speechmaking airy wraps astir your neck, truthful it looks silly. But it's an fantabulous alternate to a clip-on speechmaking airy portion remaining hands-free. It's lightweight, adjustable, and comes with 3 colour somesthesia modes arsenic good arsenic six brightness settings. It's rechargeable and offers up to 80 hours of artillery beingness astatine dimmer settings.

About Those Older Kindles

Amazon doesn't merchandise caller Kindles often—the institution usually takes a fewer years betwixt models. Whenever a caller 1 arrives, its predecessor's banal starts to dwindle. It's not that we don't urge these per se, but we lone suggest these if you tin find them connected merchantability for the close price. Otherwise, we urge buying the latest version.

Before making your purchase, cross-check the terms with the latest exemplary to marque definite you're spending a just magnitude little connected the older device.

• Kindle (2022, 11th Generation): This is the smallest of the batch astatine 6.2 inches gangly and 4.3 inches wide, with a 6-inch screen. If you find tablets excessively cumbersome to clasp with 1 hand, see this one. With this model, Amazon doubled the retention to 16 gigabytes and upgraded the show to 300 pixels per inch (PPI) solution (up from 167 PPI). It's pugnacious to find, but if you negociate to snag one, you shouldn't walk much than $50.
• Kindle Paperwhite (2021, 11th Generation): This is the adjacent measurement up from the basal model. It has a agleam 6.8-inch surface with adjustable lukewarm lighting, a accelerated page-turn rate, a USB-C port, and 16 gigs of storage. It's waterproof too. We similar the Signature Edition, which besides includes auto-adjust brightness and 32 gigabytes of storage. Don't urge spending much than $100 if you tin find them.
• Kindle Scribe (1st Generation): The archetypal Scribe is simply a large enactment for note-takers. It has a elephantine 10.2-inch surface for taking notes, marking up PDFs, oregon drawing, and galore insubstantial formats you tin choose, similar college-ruled oregon dotted. It besides comes with the Basic Pen, which feels earthy to constitute with and attaches to the broadside of the Scribe magnetically. It's lone worthy it for $230 oregon less.
• Kindle Kids (2022): This is an older kid-friendly model. It comes with a cover, a year’s subscription to Amazon Kids+, parental controls, and a two-year warranty. Don't walk much than $70 connected this one.
• Kindle Paperwhite Kids (2021): This older Paperwhite mentation is simply a measurement up from the erstwhile basal Kids models. It has a high-resolution 300-ppi show with an adjustable lukewarm surface and is besides waterproof. You shouldn't walk much than $110 connected this one.

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