The Amazon Kindle 2014 Range

[Artemis]

So with a barely audible cough and a silent fart, Amazon has quietly vomited up their 2014 Kindle range.

The basic touch-screen, Paperwhite (now 'Voyage') and Kindle Fire HD all get an upgrade. Whoop-dee-do.

People who think pressing buttons make e-readers feel like books will be delighted to learn of the inclusion of A BUTTON on the Voyage, plus the screen resolution is a lot better, the materials are more 'premium', and it's all flush and delicious. Frustratingly, the design has changed to the extent that the previous Amazon cases, which were really nice, have now been replaced by some origami bollocks (not to be taken literally) which costs £54.99!! For a case!! This country, etc...

So anyway, there they are. Something new to read sexed up PDFs on for people with no appreciation of real books. Like me.

[Mister Six]

Surely that hands-free reading business doesn't work if you have to keep leaning over to tap the screen? Those covers only work on iPads because people play videos on them.

I wish they'd release a backlit Kindle without a touchscreen interface. I hate getting fingerprints all over my stuff.

[olliebean]

I wish they'd release a backlit Kindle without a touchscreen interface. I hate getting fingerprints all over my stuff.

Quite, and that's the reason to have buttons, not because they somehow make it feel like a book (they don't). Although these are more like pressure pads than buttons by the sound of it. Not sure what I think about that.

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"Reimagined Page Turns".

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Surely that hands-free reading business doesn't work if you have to keep leaning over to tap the screen?

With these ones you can tap the screen without leaning your entire body forwards.

[Alberon]

I appreciate the page turn buttons on the left and right, which apparently have a slight haptic response when you push them.

But to be honest the Kindle 3G I bought four years ago still works as good as ever and the only real disadvantage is I can't read it in the dark, which I would never do anyway.

[amnesiac]

the other funny thing is Amazon's own comparison chart which shows the Voyager is identical to the Paperwhite apart from increased dpi, and I really don't think anyone would notice, are people complaining their Kindles are great APART FROM BEING TOTALLY UNDREADABLE?

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are people complaining their Kindles are great APART FROM BEING TOTALLY UNDREADABLE?

That would be a peculiar criticism indeed.