When was kindle touch released

It gets about three to six weeks of battery life, depending on how much you read. Amazon announced three new Paperwhites that will ship October We haven't tested them yet. However, it will probably be worth springing for one if you can wait. The new Paperwhites have bigger, 6.

Even with the max brightness increased by 10 percent, there will still be 10 weeks total battery life and the long-awaited, faster USB-C charging. It will have adjustable warm white lighting, like the Oasis, and a dark mode. As with the last model, these are waterproof so you can read by the pool or in the bathtub.

There's also a new Paperwhite Kids , which has the same large screen and waterproofing—a first for kids. However, this is a significant price bump.

If you already have a Paperwhite, you don't need to replace it. The Oasis costs the same as three standard Kindles—but it's an absolute joy to use. Many of the Oasis' features now show up in the new Paperwhites, like adjustable warm lighting and a faster processor.

At 7 inches, the touchscreen is now only slightly bigger than the new Paperwhites now, too. However, it still has the sleek aluminum design with a ridge on one edge and physical buttons to turn the pages.

Material shortages? So when you give it a white bezel, the white plastic shows it up and makes it look even more grey. We wanted the black text to pop more on the display. Combined with a new Pearl display from E Ink, it made for a major jump in contrast. The fourth-generation Kindle was the first to do away with the keyboard, producing a notably smaller device. It seems to me to have lost something of its soul with this change, though; the Kindle 4 and its successors reminded me more of budget tablets of years past rather than a brand new device.

The solution, a network of infrared blasters and sensors that could only tell roughly where you put your finger, was a stopgap measure. We used that IR window until we got the frontlight working, because that would burn away that sepia layer.

The frontlight was already well under way, and would be announced in the form of the Kindle Paperwhite. I saw a prototype several months before that, and it turns out Amazon had quietly acquired a company in called Oy Modilis that specialized in light-guiding films like those used in the Paperwhite.

At the time, having taken care of even lighting, the designers were mostly worried about color temperature. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators. The device is addressed to users who want to read a lot of graphic books, pdf documents, newspapers, magazines, and blogs. Its internal memory of 4GB gives approximately 3. Kindle DX has 3.

Kindle 2 starts shipping from Amazon. The international version of the e-reader was announced and available for pre-order on October 7. Amazon is introducing Kindle for PC — a free application for reading and managing Kindle ebooks on the Windows computer.

The app can be downloaded directly from Amazon. Kindle and Kindle Store launch in Canada. Customers can order the device on Amazon. Over , Kindle ebooks and over 90 top newspapers and magazines are available for purchase by Canadian users. Kindle 2 gets a built-in native pdf reader, introduced earlier this year with Kindle DX. It enables the user to read documents in their original pdf format without conversion.

The Kindle can now work on a single charge for seven days, compared to four, with wireless turned on. Users who bought the device earlier can also enjoy a better battery life after they install a free software update. The international version of the e-reader can ship from Amazon. Jeff Bezos reveals that for the first time in history Amazon customers buy more Kindle books than hardcover books.

Over the past month, for every hardcover books Amazon has sold, it has sold Kindle books. Amazon reveals that Stieg Larsson, the author of the bestselling Millennium Trilogy has become the first author to sell over 1 million Kindle books.

Larsson becomes the first member of the new Kindle Million Club, which will recognize writers whose entire body of work has sold over 1 million copies in the Kindle Store. Amazon announced the device a month earlier, on July New crispier and darker fonts are designed to improve readability. Its weight is only 8. The battery can work without the charge for up to four weeks. Kindle Keyboard is the first Kindle that comes in two versions — with and without the wireless connection.

Kindle Keyboard is available to customers from countries and 30 territories around the world. Kindle for the Web a feature that allows readers to read free samples of Kindle books on their web browsers without the need to install anything or register an Amazon account.

Amazon reveals that in the past 30 days the customers purchased more Kindle books than print books hardcover and paperback combined for the top 10, 25, , and 1, bestselling books. Kindle app for Windows Phone 7 is released. The app includes new features built into a mobile Kindle app for the first time, such as personalized book discovery or recommendation sharing. Three months earlier, on October 12, , Amazon made a call to writers, thinkers, business leaders, and publishers to join Kindle in creating a new kind of content — Kindle Singles.

A single is a song that is released separately from an album. Each Kindle Single is focusing on a single idea which should be well researched and well argued. Each title costs much less than a typical novel or a non-fiction book. Announced in April, special offers are ads that are displayed on the Kindle screensaver and the bottom of the home screen. Kindle versions with such ads are cheaper regular versions. The first Kindle featuring ads and sponsored screensavers is Kindle 3 with Special Offers.

It happens less than four years since the introduction of the 1st-generation Kindle, and sixteen years since the first print book was purchased on Amazon. I know the Kindle will eventually carry the day — an electronic reader means no more embarrassing coffee stains, no more library holds and renewals, no more frantic flipping through pages for a lost quote or going to three bookstores in one afternoon to track down an evasive title. Kindle Cloud Reader is a web-based reading application that enables users to read and manage Kindle books instantly using only their web browser.

No downloading or installation is required. Kindle Cloud Reader is compatible with Chrome and Safari browsers on desktop computers. A version optimized for Safari on the iPad is also available. Kindle ebooks are now available to borrow from over 11, public libraries in the United States. The book will be delivered in seconds to their preferred e-reading device or application. Kindle books borrowed from a library are the same books as the ones bought in the Kindle Store.

You can read them on the Kindle e-reader or in a Kindle mobile app, using the same unique features these reading environments provide. It sports five buttons and a cursor pad instead. The silver-gray e-reader is considerably cheaper than its predecessor. Reduction in size and price was achieved at the cost of the internal memory. Owners of Kindle e-readers or Amazon Fire tablets but not Kindle applications can borrow for free from thousands of eligible Kindle ebooks, including current and former New York Times bestsellers.

There are no due dates, but the user can borrow one book at a time, and no more than one book per month. For a lot of people who are more and more immersed into technology, the Kindle became a way back into reading books.

The e-reader features an internal storage of 4 GB for approximately 3, books , deep integration with Audible, and battery life extended to two months. X-Ray is a unique, highly advanced reference tool, developed by Amazon to be used in Kindle e-readers and applications.

With a single tap, you can see the passages from across the book that refer to characters, ideas, places, or topics mentioned in the text. X-Ray is not only a must-have tool to follow more complicated plots but is a great way to extend knowledge about topics the book is about, by providing extended definitions from Wikipedia and Shelfari. Kindle Touch starts shipping to international customers of Amazon. The list of locations the Kindle can be shipped includes countries and territories.

Members of Amazon Prime can enjoy Harry Potter books for free. All seven parts of the famous J. At the time of the announcement, there are over ,00 Kindle-exclusive ebooks in the Kindle Store. Whispersync for Voice was developed in cooperation with Audible. It enables the user to seamlessly switch between reading a Kindle book and listening to its audiobook version — all in just a few taps, within one book. Lastly, it's gaining the warm light feature from the higher-end Kindle Oasis, which lets you add an orange tint to the screen that can be easier on your eyes if you're reading in bed.

It looks the same but also supports wireless charging so you can drop it on any wireless charger you might already have for a phone to juice it up. It also has an auto-adjusting light that will dim or brighten depending on the level of ambient light in your room. Skip Navigation. Key Points.