Nearly every Kindle is steeply discounted at Best Buy

The Kindle Paperwhite, our favorite Kindle, is down to $124.99. | Image: The Verge If you’ve been thinking about picking up a Kindle before school starts, or for your next vacation, now’s a good time to do it. As part of its Black Friday in July sale, Best Buy has brought the Kindle Paperwhite back down to its all-time low of $124.99 ($35 off). It’s the Kindle we recommend for most people because it has a bunch of features. It’s waterproof and features a sharp 300ppi, 7-inch display, it offers an adjustable warm light for reading at night, and it has great battery life that can last for more than a month on a single charge.

Kindle Paperwhite (12th-gen)

Where to Buy:

$159.99 $124.99 at Best Buy (with ads)
$159.99 $124.99 at Target (with ads)

Best Buy has also discounted nearly every other Kindle model. The Kindle Kids is a good deal even for adults. It’s down to $99.99 ($30 off), and includes the same hardware as the standard Kindle, but with some extras: a kid-friendly cover, no ads, a two-year worry-free guarantee, and six months of Amazon Kids Plus. If you read comics, the Kindle Colorsoft is also on sale starting at $159.99 ($90 off). It shares many of the Paperwhite’s strengths but adds a color E Ink display that displays color at up to 150ppi. The Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition, which has 32GB of storage and wireless charging, is on sale for $219.99 ($60 off).If you want an e-reader that doubles as a digital notebook, the Kindle Scribe and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft are worth considering. They’re on sale starting at $379.99 ($120 off) and $479.99 ($150 off), respectively. Each offers an 11-inch display with an included stylus for writing notes, annotating Kindle books, and marking documents. They also include notebook templates and AI-powered tools that can summarize notes or clean up messy handwriting. The biggest difference is that the Scribe Colorsoft adds a color E Ink display, making it a better choice for reviewing color documents or organizing notes with different colors.

Read our reviews of the Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition, and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft.

Kindle Kids (2024)

Amazon’s Kindle Kids is identical to the standard Kindle — meaning it packs a 300ppi display and support for USB-C charging — but comes with a case, an extended two-year warranty, and six months of Amazon Kids Plus.

Where to Buy:

$129.99 $99.99 at Best Buy
$129.99 $99.99 at Target

Kindle Colorsoft (16GB)

Amazon gave its Kindle lineup a much-needed jolt with the introduction of the Kindle Colorsoft last year, its first color E Ink ebook reader. Now it’s back with a cheaper 16GB model that offers many of the same perks, including up to eight weeks of battery life and a 7-inch display that’s great for comics and graphic novels.

Where to Buy:

$249.99 $189.99 at Amazon
$249.99 $189.99 at Best Buy
$249.99 at Target

Kindle Scribe 32GB

The third-gen Kindle Scribe 32GB is even bigger than its 10.2-inch predecessor; it offers an 11-inch display with 300ppi resolution and the same great battery life that Kindles are known for.

Where to Buy:

$499.99 $379.99 at Best Buy

Kindle Scribe Colorsoft

The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft is Amazon’s first note-taking e-reader with a color screen. It features an 11-inch display, a slimmer design, an improved interface, an updated stylus, and a new AI-powered search feature that can quickly summarize documents.

Where to Buy:

$629.99 $479.99 at Best Buy (32GB)

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Nearly every Kindle is steeply discounted at Best Buy

Kindle Paperwhite (12th-gen)

Where to Buy:

Read our reviews of the Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition, and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft.

Kindle Kids (2024)

Where to Buy:

Kindle Colorsoft (16GB)

Where to Buy:

Kindle Scribe 32GB

Where to Buy:

Kindle Scribe Colorsoft

Where to Buy:

4 Samsung Galaxy apps that made me ditch Google’s alternatives

Samsung DeX finally clicked for me when I stopped treating it like a phone

The RecreateDSKY project lets you remake Apollo’s guidance computer with a Raspberry Pi

My old laptop became a private AI a**istant for the whole house, and now I’m not paying for cloud subscriptions

I stopped recommending Bazzite after realizing any Linux distro can game just as well

Can Reddit fend off a new wave of AI SEO spam?

I stopped using Notion after installing this open-source self-hosted alternative

The $5 flash drive is still the most useful thing in my tech drawer, and no SSD changes that

OpenAI drags Apple’s lawsuit into the court of public opinion

The studio behind Pokémon struggles to find its voice in Beast of Reincarnation

I turned my old phone into a device that does something my $300 smart home gadgets can’t

The next Xbox could play every Xbox game ever made

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