The Best Kindle of 2025: Paperwhite, Scribe, or Colorsoft?

For Easier Reading

If you've ever had a agelong reference convention that gives you manus cramps, these accessories mightiness help. You tin cheque retired much options successful our Best Kindle Accessories guide.

Strapsicle E-Reader Hand Straps for $21: Attach 1 aliases some of these to nan backmost of your Kindle—one is angled for your correct manus and nan different for your left—and descent your manus in. Your hands won't cramp, you won't accidentally deed nan surface and flip pages, and nan scholar won't gaffe retired of your hands. There are 3 sizes meant to clasp different types of e-readers. You should spot precisely which models they activity pinch connected nan Amazon pages, arsenic good arsenic connected this page connected nan Strapsicle website.

Lamicall Gooseneck Tablet Holder for $20: I emotion this device. While I wouldn't telephone it wholly hands-free, it’s a ace convenient and comfortable experience, peculiarly if you person chronic symptom successful your wrists. The clamp is easy to connect to furniture frames and broadside tables (there’s besides a floor guidelines type for $70). It’s lightweight to deploy anyplace and has capable guidance to nan cervix that it doesn’t autumn guardant aliases retired of nan position you spot it in. It did wobble a spot erstwhile I touched it to move nan page (or it sewage bumped by a funny cat), truthful I usually support a remainder manus connected it to clasp it steady. If you want to spell afloat hands-free, adhd a page-turner remote truthful you tin publication without lifting a finger.

PopSocket for $10: PopSockets aren't conscionable for your phone; they besides activity awesome connected e-readers. Whether you person a Paperwhite aliases a basal Kindle, it's different awesome solution for reducing manus cramps.

Hello Clio nan Original Kindle Belt Bag for $58: If you're ever walking pinch your Kindle but don't want to transportation a larger bag, this is simply a awesome accessory. It has a soft interior to support your surface safe, on pinch further pockets for your phone, keys, and wallet. It tin fresh nan basal Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Oasis, and Kindle Colorsoft.

The Bookish Goods Bookish Crossbody for $50: Need a container for your Kindle Scribe? The Bookish Crossbody from Bookish Goods fits nan Kindle Scribe successful its main ample crossbody pocket, and fits a smaller Kindle aliases Kindle Paperwhite successful nan beforehand pocket. It's a awesome size to bring a fewer things pinch you on pinch a Kindle Scribe—catch maine pinch this container and my Kindle successful nan parkland this summertime pinch my kiddo.

Nomad 65W Slim Power Adapter for $59: Kindles person agelong artillery life, but erstwhile WIRED reviewer Brenda Stolyar still likes to transportation a charger pinch her connected nan spell just successful case. This 1 from Nomad is her favorite. It's ace bladed and comes pinch 2 USB-C ports, truthful she uses it to complaint her e-reader and telephone simultaneously (the near broadside delivers 45 watts and nan correct delivers 20 watts erstwhile charging 2 devices astatine nan aforesaid time). The prongs besides fold up, truthful it fits nicely successful nan broadside pouch of a bag.

Do You Need a Cover?

Kindles are, thankfully, not arsenic vulnerable arsenic our pricey smartphones, but you whitethorn still want to adhd a screen to protect nan surface if you're often toting it astir successful a bag. These aren't padded for superior drops. The Kids' editions travel pinch cases.

Fabric Covers for Kindle for $32 and Paperwhite for $37: These unfastened for illustration a book and travel successful immoderate variety of black, blue, pink, aliases green. They're made from postconsumer recycled fabric.

Fabric Cover for Scribe for $60: This 1 flips up and complete for illustration a notepad, and you tin position it into a guidelines too. There's besides a slot for nan pen if you don't want it to connect magnetically each nan time. It's besides made pinch recycled materials.

The Bookish Kindle Cases for $36: I really for illustration that this screen besides has a built-in strap, truthful you tin bask nan information of a manus strap while reference and person nan protection of a screen erstwhile you're not. There are a bunch of nosy colors too.

The Quirky Cup Collective E-Reader Sleeve for $27: Our squad loves these gorgeous sleeves, peculiarly nan Sun and Moon version. They're beautiful and will protect your instrumentality erstwhile you aren't utilizing it, truthful you tin propulsion it successful your container without worry. The extracurricular is velvet and nan wrong is satin, pinch immoderate padding successful betwixt and a zip closure. On nan backmost is simply a mini zip pocket. On each merchandise page, you'll spot which devices fit, but consult nan measurements. There are besides separate, larger book and iPad sleeves ($35).

CoBak Clear Case for $9: The champion portion astir having a clear lawsuit is that it protects nan backmost of your Kindle and allows you to decorate it pinch stickers underneath. We urge this fun sticker battalion ($5).

Great Reading Lights

If you publication earlier furniture but don't want to disturb sleeping partner, kids, aliases roommates, put successful a reference light. All nan Kindles now person a beforehand light, truthful you don't need one, but these tin still beryllium handy, particularly if you move betwixt your Kindle and beingness books. Below are a fewer of our favorites. You tin find much successful our Best Reading Lights guide.

Vekkia 14 LED Book Light for $16: This is our apical pick. It's a clip-on ray pinch an adjustable gooseneck and 2 swiveling ray bars that battalion 7 LEDs each. You tin rhythm done 5 levels of brightness and 3 lukewarm colors. It's comparatively large, though, truthful it's not awesome for mini paperbacks. The clamp opens arsenic wide arsenic 2.1 inches and serves arsenic a unchangeable guidelines to spot connected a nightstand.

Glocusent LED Neck Reading Light for $22: This reference ray wraps astir your neck, truthful it looks silly. But it's an fantabulous replacement to a clip-on reference ray while remaining hands-free. It's lightweight, adjustable, and comes pinch 3 colour somesthesia modes arsenic good arsenic six brightness settings. It's rechargeable and offers up to 80 hours of artillery life astatine dimmer settings.

Black Diamond Wiz Headlamp for $28: This is our favourite headlamp for kids. It's comfortable, and nan adjustable straps travel successful various colors. It has 3 brightness settings and an IPX4 water-resistance rating, truthful you don't person to interest astir splashes. It turns itself disconnected automatically aft 2 hours, successful lawsuit they autumn dormant pinch it on. It takes 2 AAA batteries.

About Those Older Kindles

Amazon doesn't merchandise caller Kindles often—the institution takes a fewer years betwixt models. Whenever a caller 1 arrives, its predecessor's banal starts to dwindle. It's not that we don't urge these per se, but we only propose these if you tin find them connected waste for nan correct price. Otherwise, we urge buying nan latest version.

Before making your purchase, cross-check nan value pinch nan latest exemplary to make judge you're spending a adjacent magnitude little connected nan older device.

• Kindle (2022, 11th Generation): This is nan smallest of nan batch astatine 6.2 inches gangly and 4.3 inches wide, pinch a 6-inch screen. If you find tablets excessively cumbersome to clasp pinch 1 hand, see this one. With this model, Amazon doubled nan retention to 16 gigabytes and upgraded nan show to 300 pixels per inch (PPI) solution (up from 167 PPI). It's reliable to find, but if you negociate to snag one, you shouldn't walk much than $50.
• Kindle Paperwhite (2021, 11th Generation): This is nan adjacent measurement up from nan basal model. It has a agleam 6.8-inch surface pinch adjustable lukewarm lighting, a accelerated page-turn rate, a USB-C port, and 16 gigs of storage. It's waterproof too. I for illustration nan Signature Edition (8/10, WIRED Recommends), which besides includes auto-adjust brightness and 32 gigabytes of storage. I don't urge spending much than $100 if you tin find them.
• Kindle Scribe (1st Generation): The Scribe (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is simply a awesome action for note-takers. It has a elephantine 10.2-inch surface for taking notes, marking up PDFs, aliases drawing, and galore insubstantial formats you tin choose, for illustration college-ruled aliases dotted. It besides comes pinch nan Basic Pen, which feels earthy to constitute pinch and attaches to nan broadside of nan Kindle magnetically. I only urge it for $230 aliases less.
• Kindle Kids (2022): This is nan kid-friendly type of nan entry-level Kindle. It comes pinch a cover, a year’s subscription to Amazon Kids+, parental controls, and a two-year warranty. I don't propose spending much than $70 connected this one.
• Kindle Paperwhite Kids (2021): The Paperwhite type is simply a measurement up from nan Kindle Kids. It has a high-resolution 300-ppi show pinch an adjustable lukewarm surface and is besides waterproof. You shouldn't walk much than $110 connected this one.

Power up pinch unlimited entree to WIRED. Get best-in-class reporting that's excessively important to disregard for conscionable $2.50 $1 per period for 1 year. Includes unlimited integer entree and exclusive subscriber-only content. Subscribe Today.