This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. Amazon recently released a new Kindle Paperwhite e-reader with a bigger screen that I liked a lot and earned a CNET Editors’ Choice award. It’s now on sale for $105 or $35 off its list price. Additionally, Amazon’s high-end Kindle …
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What’s the price of convenience? It’s $119 a year, if you pay for Amazon Prime annual subscription. (Otherwise, you pay $13 a month. And students get a discount.) The benefits are definitely worth paying for. Of course, you’re probably familiar with Amazon’s free two-day shipping option. But depending on where you live, you can also get free one-day delivery, same-day delivery …
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This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. The new Amazon Kindle Paperwhite was released last month — and it’s great — but it costs $140. If you don’t need the bigger, sharper screen, the baseline Kindle from 2018 just hit $50 a $40 price cut and the lowest price we expect to see. …
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Oct 2021 One of the problems with having a sophisticated, already excellent e-reader like the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite is that it’s hard to make it much better. The same might be said for Apple’s iPhones and plenty of other devices. But with an e-reader, you’re dealing with a limited feature set and a core technology, E Ink, that seems pretty …
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Kindle Unlimited is that “other” service that Amazon operates — it’s a subscription service for ebooks, but it’s different from Prime Reading (which is included with Amazon Prime). The main difference? Kindle Unlimited gives you access to well over 1 million books (as opposed to just 1,000 with Prime Reading) and costs $10 per month. There’s never been a better …
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At long last, there’s a new Kindle Paperwhite. It’s got a larger 6.8-inch E Ink display, USB-C charging and some other small improvements for $10 more than ($140, £130, AU$239) its predecessor, which was last updated back in 2018. A step-up model, the Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition, adds wireless charging and additional storage — 32GB instead of 8GB — as …
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Amazon’s Kindle line may be adding a new e-reader in the not-too-distant future. A new leak on Amazon’s Canadian website suggests the company is working on a new ebook reader called the Kindle Paperwhite 5 Signature Edition. As spotted by the blog Good E-Reader Monday, the new device appears set to offer a 6.8-inch “glare-free” screen with 32GB of storage. The leak …
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There isn’t a better time than now to dive right into a good book or stream your favorite content from music to TV. I’m a Fire tablet owner, so watching Netflix, reading a book and catching up on older podcasts has been a joy on a nice budget. The Fire 7 tablet is currently $40 on Amazon, saving you $10. …
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If you missed Amazon’s one-day sale on the Kindle Paperwhite last Sunday, we have good news for you: It’s back. The twist is that the all-time low price of $71 is now available at Best Buy. That’s $59 less than what you’d pay for the Paperwhite at Amazon itself right now. It’s also $19 less than the step-down entry-level Kindle, and $9 lower …
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Did you like the Good Omens series on Amazon? Eager for the second season to deliver more whimsy and excitement from everyone’s favorite angel and demon? While you wait, there’s plenty of adventure to enjoy in the book that inspired the series, written by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. I’m sure you’re not surprised to hear not everything from the …
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