Here is what Amazon has planned for the Kindle in 2026

Amazon has been crushing it on the e-reader and e-notebook space for the past couple of years. In 2025 they released the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft and Kindle Scribe with front-light, both with 11-inch 300 PPI e-notebooks, that specialize in note taking, freehand drawing, editing PDF files and reading books. The company also released a 16GB version of the Kindle Colorsoft with 16GB and also issued a kids version. What does the company have planned for 2026? New Devices The only confirmed device that Amazon has planned for 2026 is the Kindle Scribe without front-light, which is considered the most inexpensive Scribe model, with a $300 price tag. It has the same 11-inch screen as the 2025 Kindle Scribes, including all of the new AI drawing features. It should be come out in the first couple of months, but it remains to be seen how it will sell at full price. It is very likely that this will be the model heavily discounted for Mothers Day, Prime Day and all of the holiday events, since they will want to push this model out to consumers. Amazon released the Kindle Basic, Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition and Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition in late 2024, since these products are relatively still new, it is doubtful that they will refresh these models in 2026. This is primarily due to now new E INK technology that is close to being released in 2026, there are rumours that E INK is working on Kaleido 4 and E INK Carta 1400, but the release date is unknown. The 12th generation Kindle Paperwhite and Signature Edition both employ Carta 1300. Software and new features Amazon has updated the product listing for its new Kindle Scribe Colorsoft and disclosed that in early 2026, it will receive full dark mode, where the text will be inverted, with the background black and the text white. Here is the updated text on the Kindle Colorosft listing on Amazon “System-wide Dark Mode will be rolled out in 2026, but currently is not available on this device. This means that notebooks, documents, PDFs, Home, Library, and Workspace can only be displayed with a white background. But you can enable a similar reading experience within millions of Kindle books using the Page Color feature, which, like Dark Mode, inverts the book page color to black and the book text color to white. To enable the feature in eligible books, open your book, access the Quick Actions menu or the Aa menu, and toggle the Page Color to black. Amazon has disclosed to Good e-Reader that many of the software features found on the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft and Kindle Scribe with Frontlight will carry over to the first- and second-generation Kindle Scribe e-notebooks sometime in early 2026 . This includes the new home screen, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, and some of the new AI features. Amazon typically keeps many new features on its latest models to encourage people to keep spending money on them. Once...

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