Amazon is giving its entire Kindle e-reader lineup a shakeup today, at least by the slow-moving and relatively placid standards of the e-reader market. The company is announcing a major refresh to the pen-centric Kindle Scribe, a screen-size bump for the mainstream Kindle Paperwhite, and small tweaks to the basic Kindle—a rare simultaneous refresh for devices that the company usually updates one or two at a time.
In addition to the monochrome e-readers, Amazon added its first color e-reader to the lineup today. The new Kindle Colorsoft, covered in more detail here, looks almost identical to the new Paperwhite and launches on October 30th for $279.99.
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Going from most to least significant: The new Kindle Scribe’s upgrades are mostly meant to make it a more paper-like writing experience. It has a new textured screen coating, a white screen bezel that blends into the screen (we’ve also seen this deployed in tablets like the reMarkable Paper Pro), and a tweaked Premium Pen accessory with a “new soft-tipped eraser” that feels more like an actual pencil eraser.