This Pricey New Accessory Gives Your Kindle a Feature That Used to Be Standard
We may earn a commission from links on this page. It has been 14 years since Amazon made a Kindle e-reader without a touchscreen, and while I certainly don't miss the days of slowly paging through my e-book library with the arrow keys on my Kindle Keyboard, the move to touch navigation did have one unfortunate result, at least for a small subset of readers: the loss of physical page-turn buttons. Once standard on all Kindles, they eventually became a premium feature available only on the pricey Kindle Oasis, before being dropped from the lineup entirely when that device was retired in 2024. While this fall's overhaul of the Kindle lineup introduced upgrades like a metal enclosure and a flush-front design, Amazon hasn't exactly reintroduced physical buttons, but the company has launched a new accessory to appeal to the roughly 5% of the market (per Kevin Keith, Amazon's vice president in charge of Kindle) that essentially turns your new Kindle Paperwhite Signature Editi...
