Amazon’s New Kindle Lineup Includes the First-Ever Color Kindle

October 17, 2024:

Front and back views of the Kindle Paperwhite three small ereaders in black blue and pink laying flat on a bamboo surface

There’s also the Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition, which has all the same features as the standard Paperwhite plus an auto-adjusting front light, wireless charging, and double the storage at 32 GB. Both versions also come in new colors including Metallic Raspberry, Metallic Jade, and Metallic Black.

The Kindle Paperwhite and Paperwhite Signature Edition are available now for $160 and $200, respectively, and they ship immediately.

Amazon also announced an all-new Kindle Paperwhite Kids. It has all the same features as the standard Paperwhite—it’s faster, thinner, and brighter—but comes with kid-friendly cases, some of which feature new designs. It also comes with a year’s subscription to Amazon Kids+ subscription (its kid-friendly content library), parental controls, and a two-year warranty.

The 2nd-Gen Kindle Scribe

The second-generation Kindle Scribe, designed for note-taking and reading, comes with a few new features on the inside and out. The display sports white borders with a paper-like display to mimic the look of a traditional sheet of paper. Meanwhile, the Premium Pen (sold separately) now has a soft-tipped eraser that feels like the one you’d find on a No. 2 pencil.

A person using a stylus to scribble on the screen of a Kindle Scribe a teal ereader with interactive screen

There are a few new software features in the Scribe too. There’s Active Canvas, which allows you to write directly within the book you’re reading (this was a big complaint we had with the original when we reviewed it). While making notes, it’ll flow around the text and anchor the ink to the exact spot you annotated. That way, if you resize the text or the book layout changes, it won’t lose its spot. In the future, you’ll also be able to take advantage of expandable margins—so you can write in the side panel and hide the notes when you’re done.

And if you thought you were safe from generative artificial intelligence in a hardware launch story about Kindles, you were wrong. Say hello to “Refined Writing” and “Summarization.” With Refined Writing, you can tap a button to refine your notes into a script font so that it’s legible but also looks more presentable. Summarization quickly summarizes pages of notes into bullets within a script font that you can share directly from the notebook tab.

You can preorder the new Kindle Scribe now for $400, and it ships on December 4.

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