The Kindle Touch and Kindle 3G are a bit bigger and heavier than the non-Touch version, but their batteries last twice as long. Kindle Touch ($99 with special offers, $139 without special offers, Read the full review) The $20 step-up buys you a touch screen, audio support, and a few other extras including a new X-ray feature that lets readers examine "the bones of a book." Page turns, search, dictionary look-up, and menu access all happen at a touch, no buttons required. Fans of audio books, background music, or text-to-speech ("read-to-me") will be disappointed in the lack of audio support-the new base Kindle is totally silent.
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It does include a dictionary and Wikipedia, but manual text entry requires shoving the cursor around an onscreen keyboard with the directional keypad. It lacks a touch screen, so page turns are accomplished via buttons mounted on either side. Kindle ($79 with special offers, $109 without special offers, Read the full review) The basic Kindle is actually the smallest and lightest of the three. According to Amazon, "special offers and sponsored screensavers display on Kindle when you're not reading." The premium to avoid advertising is $30 for the base Kindle or $40 for the Kindle Touch and Kindle Touch 3G. You can search the site to see whether your local library or school is onboard.Įach e-ink Kindle is available at different pricing depending on whether you want " special offers" advertising. Unlike the Nook or Sony Reader, the Kindle still does not support the EPUB format, but nonetheless more than 11,000 public libraries now allow Kindle borrowing via industry leader Overdrive.
#Amazon kindle 3 for free#
They all also have built-in Wi-Fi to download books and deploy other Internet-dependent functions when in range of a hot spot.Īmazon also addressed one glaring shortcoming compared with other e-readers when it enabled the ability to download and read e-books for free through participating local libraries and public schools. The biggest difference between old and new is that all three 2011 e-ink Kindles ditch the physical keyboard (although the company is calling the older, still-available versions "Kindle Keyboard"). According to our hands-on review of the $79 Kindle: "In other words, the text on the screen looks exactly like it did on the previous model, which is to say: it looks good, but don't expect any improvements in contrast or sharpness." The devices' lower price points represent an aggressive push by Amazon to boost its lead in the e-book space as competitors like Barnes & Noble's Nook, currently $99 for the latest touch-screen version and a CNET Editors' Choice, pose a growing threat.Īll three new non-Fire Kindles offer the same 6-inch e-ink Perl screen found on the previous-generation Kindle.
#Amazon kindle 3 update#
(Updated November 17, 2011) In addition to the Kindle Fire tablet, Amazon has a new lineup of three e-ink readers for 2011 to update the Kindle released in 2010.
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