New Kindles on their way?

[drofgnal]

Nevermind. I thought I was looking at a new model.

[John F]

Originally Posted by jhowell

It’s very odd. I have gotten multiple emails about Kindle books on sale during Prime Days. But no mention of actual Kindles.

It has occurred to me that the current management of Amazon may no longer have the interest in selling a reading device at a loss and making it up in the sale of books when they can just sell the books and let customers read them on phones and tablets.

Is the bolded part still true? Googling, I see a lot of articles from 2011-1012, but nothing recent. The only recent news is about the Amazon devices unit losing money, but that includes a lot of devices (Fire, Echo, rings?, earbuds?, ...)

Amazon pricing seems comparable to Kobo's, so Kobo is also selling at a loss?

Just curious.

[pdurrant]

Only the Kindle Kids, Kindle Paperwhite Kids and the Oasis are now available at Amazon UK.

Surely something will be released soon?

[Hollow Man]

Considering I'm still using the original Oasis, and I've given up hope they're going to release a new one, I'd sure like to think they are going to put out something exciting...

[Waylander]

Good thing I bought the 16GB PW5 when I did at the beginning of the year. On the off-chance that there aren't any more Kindles released, then this one will hopefully last me a while. If they don't release a new line, I'll just move to Kobo or Boox when it gives up.

[foosion]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Only the Kindle Kids, Kindle Paperwhite Kids and the Oasis are now available at Amazon UK.

Surely something will be released soon?

Kindle PW, scribe and kids currently available at Amazon US at a "limited time" price. I don't believe they were available yesterday. The only oasis I see is the international edition, which cannot be shipped to my location (US).

[Hollow Man]

Not all the Paperwhite colors are available. It's a very minimal list of things to buy.

It's too bad they never perfected the original Oasis, because I like it quite a bit. Its battery indicator is erratic, and it doesn't always go into full sleep mode when the cover is on, but I still dig its small size and physical buttons.

I find it hard to believe that Amazon is going to stop selling Kindles. I think it's just a waiting game.

[DNSB]

On Amazon Canada, they show Scribes as being available. The other Kindle ereaders that show as search results are either Currently unavailable (Paperwhite 5 SE) or Temporarily out of stock (Oasis). No other Kindle ereaders are listed.

[binaryhermit]

Originally Posted by jhowell

True. Even the new kindles are largely speculation. The only description in the FCC paperwork is “Electronic Display Device” and that could refer to a new Echo Show Alexa device.

Could it also be something like a TV or a computer monitor?

[JoeC]

Originally Posted by Hollow Man

Not all the Paperwhite colors are available. It's a very minimal list of things to buy.

It's too bad they never perfected the original Oasis, because I like it quite a bit. Its battery indicator is erratic, and it doesn't always go into full sleep mode when the cover is on, but I still dig its small size and physical buttons.

I find it hard to believe that Amazon is going to stop selling Kindles. I think it's just a waiting game.

I agree with your comments on the original Kindle. I wish they created a V 2.0 that addressed the original’s imperfections.

[tomsem]

Originally Posted by BionicGecko

It’s possible, however as long as Apple and Google demand their pound of flesh for every book bought via an app on their platform, I’d argue Amazon still has an incentive to offer a device for which they control the distribution.

I do at least half of my reading on a Kindle, but almost never purchase a book with one. Kindles are too slow for exploration beyond the usually not very good Recommendations, don't provide as much metadata about the book, and going through reviews is slower. So it's actually a much better purchasing experience to use a web browser (on any mobile or desktop device) than it ever was with a Kindle or the Kindle app.

Neither the macOS or Windows Kindle app have store (or even Recommendations) built in. In the case of Apple maybe there is some App Store restriction since App Store is the only way to get (the latest version of) it. But I think it is just that is more development work just to feebly duplicate the web browser experience, which the Kindle developers have little to do with.

[tomsem]

Originally Posted by Aleron Ives

You can use the inverted mode to get dark mode everywhere, but images will also be inverted if you do that.

My Kobo Clara Colour has no such feature. All there is is Dark Mode in Reading Settings. It's not in Settings or with the controls for the front light levels, which is where 'everybody else' (Kindle and PocketBook) has it. And Dark Mode on both does not invert images, just the background and text.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by tomsem

My Kobo Clara Colour has no such feature. All there is is Dark Mode in Reading Settings. It's not in Settings or with the controls for the front light levels, which is where 'everybody else' (Kindle and PocketBook) has it. And Dark Mode on both does not invert images, just the background and text.

Inverted Mode can be accessed from Developer Options. To get Developer Options to show, do a search for "devmodeon" on the home screen. There won't be a notification or anything, but if you go to Settings after this, you should see Developer Options under Device Information.

After you've checked Inverted Mode, you must reboot your Kobo.

[DNSB]

Or you can use NickelMenu to implement an Invert & Reboot item.

menu_item : main  : Invert & Reboot    : nickel_setting : toggle : invert
    chain_success   : power              : reboot

Though personally I'm not fond of invert since it inverts everything from the home screen to images and even the connected and charging screen.

[Aleron Ives]

Oh yeah, the inverted images can be tolerable on a monochromatic device, but with colour... oh dear.