The latest Kindle Paperwhite drops to its best price all year

The latest Kindle Paperwhite adds waterproofing, truthful you tin work by the pool. | Image: The Verge

Mother’s Day is coming up, and if you’re looking for a present, we recently published our acquisition guide with a scope of ideas. One of those recommendations is the $109.99 entry-level Kindle, but close present you tin bargain the latest mentation of the higher-end Kindle Paperwhite with 16GB of retention and ads connected merchantability starting astatine $134.99 ($25 off) astatine Amazon, Best Buy, and Target, making it the amended buy. That’s its champion terms of the year, and $10 shy of the all-time debased we past saw connected Black Friday. The Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition, which adds wireless charging and treble the basal storage, is besides connected merchantability for $164.99 ($25 off) astatine Amazon and Best Buy.

Kindle Paperwhite (12th-gen)

Where to Buy:

• $159.99 $134.99 astatine Amazon (with ads)
• $159.99 $134.99 astatine Best Buy (with ads)
• $159.99 $134.99 astatine Target (with ads)

For astir $15 more, the Kindle Paperwhite adds waterproofing, truthful you (or mom) tin work by the excavation oregon successful the bath without worrying. It besides adds an adjustable lukewarm frontlight that, successful my experience, is easier connected the eyes astatine nighttime and little disruptive erstwhile you’re trying to upwind down earlier bed. I besides find its larger seven-inch show is somewhat much comfy to read, portion artillery beingness lasts months, truthful you won’t request to recharge it arsenic often. 

Like the basal Kindle, the Paperwhite besides offers a crisp 300ppi show and USB-C support. It weighs little than the iPhone 17 Pro Max with capable retention to clasp thousands of books — though less if you’re downloading audiobooks — truthful you tin easy instrumentality your room connected the go. And erstwhile you privation thing caller to read, it’s incredibly casual to browse, buy, and download books straight from Amazon’s Kindle store, which is wherefore it’s my go-to pick for those embedded successful Amazon’s ecosystem.

Read our latest Kindle Paperwhite review.

Some much ways to save

• Newegg is selling the PC variation of Marathon for $26.99 ($13 off) with codification EPF4475. Set successful a unusual sci-fi beingness successful 2850, the extraction shooter puts you successful the relation of a Runner, who is sent into unsafe areas to scavenge resources and flight alive. My workfellow Andrew Webster described it arsenic a weird crippled “in the champion imaginable way,”one helium was anxious to support playing aft conscionable a fewer hours, acknowledgment to its captivating satellite and satisfying halfway action.
• As a portion of Moft’s Mother’s Day Sale, you tin prevention 15 percent erstwhile you bargain 2 oregon much items implicit $10 from this list. The promo includes Moft’s upcoming Trackable Tripod Wallet, which acts arsenic a tiny tripod with tracking capabilities done Apple’s Find My network. It besides comes with a wireless remote, truthful you tin instrumentality photos without touching your phone. Moft is besides taking 20 percent disconnected different items with codification STACKABLE, including the MagSafe-compatible Snap Case Movas for the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, which is $39.99 ($10 off).
• You tin erstwhile again bargain the 13-inch MacBook Air with an M5 chip, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD connected merchantability for $949.99 ($150 off) astatine Amazon. The caller Air builds connected its predecessor with improved performance, treble the basal storage, and enactment for Wi-Fi 7. It besides offers faster work and constitute speeds, truthful it’s overmuch easier to transportation files rapidly and multitask, portion retaining agelong artillery beingness that should past you good implicit a afloat enactment day. Read our review.