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Amazon’s next entry-level Kindle with a brighter screen leaks

A person holding a green Kindle in their left hand, with a various book covers on its E Ink screen.
Amazon’s new 12th-gen Kindle will come in at least two colors: black and matcha green. | Image: MediaMarkt

With stock of its current generation e-readers dwindling, Amazon is expected to announce new Kindles soon, perhaps as early as next week. A Spanish retailer has a listing for a new 2024 version of the entry-level Kindle with a release date listed as September 30th, as spotted by Good e-Reader.

The new Kindle will have a six-inch, 300ppi screen, with improved contrast and a backlight that’s 25 percent brighter than the model Amazon released two years ago. It will also offer faster page turns and a new dark mode that inverts its monochromatic E Ink screen, but there’s no mention of it having warm screen lighting, or whether it will feature the improved E Ink Carta 1200 screen which Amazon used on the 11th-gen Kingle Paperwhite that debuted…

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