Amazon is launching colorful new Kindles — and a case with physical page-turn buttons

The basal Kindle (shown here), Kindle Paperwhite, and Colorsoft travel successful aluminum options, not conscionable plastic. | Photo: Cameron Faulkner / The Verge

Kindles don't usually alteration overmuch with each caller version, but Amazon is launching next-generation models contiguous that look and consciousness a full batch nicer. The basal Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite, and Kindle Colorsoft are a millimeter thinner and 30 percent faster astatine opening books, and their powerfulness buttons person moved from the bottommost to the close borderline adjacent the top.

They vessel successful vibrant caller colors with a soft-touch integrative case, and, for the archetypal time, there's the enactment for a mates shades of aluminum, giving them a higher-end look and feel, not to notation treble the retention of the integrative mentation (32GB versus 16GB). Amazon VP of Kindle Kevin Keith told …

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