Here are the best Kindle deals right now

The Kindle Paperwhite, our favourite Kindle, is connected merchantability with a powerfulness adapter and 1 of 3 cloth covers starting astatine $174.97 ($20). | Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge

When it comes to uncovering a instrumentality to usage to work your ebooks, you person a fewer options to take from. You tin ever bargain a tablet oregon usage your phone, but those devices are multipurpose and tin beryllium utilized for a ton of things, similar surfing the web oregon doom-scrolling connected Twitter. If you are looking for thing to strictly work books, e-readers, portion niche, are designed to store each of your books successful a virtual room with constricted functionality.

Amazon, 1 of the pioneers of the e-reader, has dominated the abstraction for years with its ever-expanding Kindle lineup, which consists of respective unsocial models with their ain pros and cons. The bulk of the devices relation arsenic elemental ebook readers; however, with the Kindle Scribe, Amazon looks to beryllium moving beyond books and into the realm of penning — thing that should marque aboriginal Kindles relation much akin to carnal paper.

Below, we’ve listed each exemplary presently available. Sometimes, determination isn’t a woody for 1 oregon immoderate of the products, but we’ve mentioned the astir caller merchantability terms successful those instances. Keep successful caput that Amazon besides offers 20 percent disconnected each of its Kindles erstwhile you commercialized successful prime devices, truthful determination are inactive different ways to prevention wealth erstwhile nary of the models are disposable astatine a discount.

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The champion Kindle (2022) deals

In lawsuit you missed it, Amazon announced a caller entry-level Kindle successful 2022, 1 that was designed to regenerate the 2019 model. The latest Kindle — which starts astatine $99.99 — puts Amazon’s basal e-reader much successful enactment with the astir caller Kindle Paperwhite, providing a fig of quality-of-life improvements successful the process. The 2022 exemplary features longer artillery life, a 300ppi screen, and charges via USB-C alternatively of Micro USB. It besides touts 16GB of retention by default and comes successful a “denim” color, which resembles the brushed bluish you mightiness subordinate with jeans.

In the past, Amazon’s newest ad-supported Kindle has dropped to arsenic debased arsenic $74.99 ($25 off) with 3 months of Kindle Unlimited included. Right now, however, you tin lone bargain the Kindle astatine Amazon, Best Buy, and Target for its afloat retail terms of $99.99. That said, you tin prime it up connected merchantability astatine Amazon with ads, a powerfulness adapter, and a cloth screen starting astatine $134.97 ($15 off). Regardless of whether you take the standalone exemplary oregon the bundle, the entry-level Kindle remains a worthwhile enactment if you’re looking to prime up an e-reader for little than the latest Paperwhite.

Read our Kindle (2022) review.

The champion Kindle Kids (2022) deals

The latest basal Kindle wasn’t the lone e-reader Amazon introduced successful 2022. The entry-level exemplary arrived alongside a caller Kindle Kids, which is identical to the modular exemplary but comes with a fistful of accessories and provides age-appropriate contented for younger readers who similar integer books. Like the last-gen Kindle Kids, the latest exemplary retails for $20 much than the basal model, bringing the MSRP to $119.99.

In presumption of add-ons, the caller Kindle Kids variation consists of 4 items: the device, a case, a two-year extended replacement warrant (in the lawsuit the instrumentality breaks), and 1 twelvemonth of Amazon Kids Plus. The second is the biggest selling constituent of the instrumentality speech from the kid-friendly patterns, arsenic it allows parents to assistance their kid entree to a integer room of kid-friendly books similar Percy Jackson and the full Harry Potter series astatine nary further cost.

While we’ve seen the Kindle Kids driblet to arsenic debased arsenic $79.99, close present determination are nary deals available. That means you tin lone bargain Amazon’s latest Kindle Kids from Amazon and Best Buy astatine its afloat retail terms of $119.99.

Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge The Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition is identical to the modular exemplary but features wireless charging and a sensor to automatically set the backlight.

The champion Kindle Paperwhite (2021) deals

Amazon’s latest Kindle Paperwhite is its 11th-gen model, which comes with USB-C support, longer artillery life, and a larger 6.8-inch display. The e-reader launched much than 2 years ago, and it often receives steep discounts astatine retailers similar Amazon and Best Buy, peculiarly astir Black Friday and passim the vacation season. You tin inactive occasionally prime up the last-gen exemplary from 2018 astatine a discount.

The 2021 Kindle Paperwhite comes successful a assortment of configurations: first, there’s an 8GB exemplary with ads for $139.99 and an 8GB exemplary without ads for $159.99. Amazon has besides released a 16GB mentation with ads for $149.99 and an ad-free mentation that sells for $169.99, some of which thin to beryllium much wide disposable than the basal exemplary these days. Finally, there’s a 32GB ad-free Signature Edition for $189.99. The second is identical to the modular Paperwhite but it besides features Qi wireless charging and a sensor that volition automatically set the backlight erstwhile needed.

Amazon has besides rolled retired a Kindle Paperwhite Kids Edition for $169.99, which comes bundled with a kid-friendly cover, a two-year extended replacement guarantee, and a twelvemonth of Amazon Kids Plus, overmuch similar the aforementioned Kindle Kids. All 2021 models are besides akin to the 2018 exemplary successful that they diagnostic a waterproof plan and Audible audiobook support.

There aren’t immoderate discounts presently disposable connected the modular Kindle Paperwhite by itself, meaning you tin lone bargain the basal 8GB exemplary from Amazon starting astatine $139.99 — and it won’t vessel for astatine slightest a month. The 16GB version, meanwhile, is disposable for its afloat terms of $149.99 from Best Buy, Amazon, and Target. However, you tin bargain the basal Paperwhite astatine Amazon arsenic portion of a bundle that contains a powerfulness adapter and your prime of a fabric screen for $174.97 ($20 off), a leather screen for $181.97 ($20 off), oregon a “cork” screen for $189.97 ($20 off).

Read our Kindle Paperwhite (2021) review.

As for the 32GB ad-free Signature Edition, it’s disposable astatine Amazon and Best Buy close present for $189.99 — its regular retail price. However, you tin bargain the ad-free Signature Edition with 32GB of storage, a wireless charging dock, and a leather screen connected merchantability astatine Amazon for $244.97 ($20 off). You tin besides bargain the e-reader with a cork screen and a wireless charging dock for $252.97 ($20 off) oregon a fabric screen and a wireless charging dock for $237.97 ($20 off).

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The champion Kindle Scribe deals

The ad-free Kindle Scribe is Amazon’s biggest e-reader to day — 1 that besides represents a departure from past Kindle models. It packs a 10.2-inch show with 300 dpi, on with the aforesaid large artillery beingness for which Kindles person go known. What separates the Scribe from different models, however, is that it comes with 1 of 2 styli, which tin beryllium utilized to annotate books, doodle, oregon jot down notes. We recovered the e-reader’s note-taking capabilities lacking successful our testing, but Amazon has already started to amended the bundle via escaped OTA bundle updates, helping bring it up to velocity with different E Ink competitors.

The Kindle Scribe is disposable astatine its afloat retail terms of $339.99 at Amazon successful its 16GB basal configuration with a Basic Pen and 3 months of Kindle Unlimited. The aforesaid exemplary is besides disposable astatine Amazon bundled with a leather screen and a powerfulness adapter for $379.97 ($60 off). Meanwhile, the bundle with the Premium Pen, which offers a shortcut fastener and a built-in eraser, is presently connected merchantability successful the 16GB configuration with a folio screen and a powerfulness adapter starting astatine $409.97 ($60 off).

Read our Kindle Scribe review.

A enactment connected the Kindle Oasis

Up until recently, Amazon besides sold the 2019 Kindle Oasis. Along with a 7-inch 300ppi E Ink display, the Oasis was unsocial successful that it offered physical, page-turning buttons. Sadly, however, the waterproof ebook scholar is neither connected merchantability nor successful banal astatine Amazon oregon immoderate different large retailer. While the planetary mentation of the e-reader is disposable astatine Amazon for $269.99, it whitethorn not beryllium worthy buying astatine this point. Amazon won’t vessel it to US addresses, and much notably, the Oasis is no longer listed arsenic portion of Amazon’s authoritative Kindle lineup. That suggests that Amazon whitethorn person discontinued it and that we whitethorn spot a newer mentation astatine immoderate constituent successful the adjacent future.