Will there be a new kindle for xmas?

Every time this topic comes up, I think, "the kindle is perfect as it is!"

Well, not quite true . . . I can always think of tiny tweaks that would make it more perfect for me.

They ALWAYS come up with something more . . . sometimes something I (or others here) have thought of and sometimes all new stuff.

Example: I thought the PW was fantastic . . . the second iteration tweaked a few things and was better.  THEN, the Voyage tweaked a few more; specifically the adjustable lighting, page turning on the bezel, the weight and shape, and improved placement of the power button. And its release was more or less coincident with the fixing of the cloud collection functionality.

At this point, I can honestly say the ONLY thing I would really want that isn't already part of the Voyage is a single button on the device that takes you HOME in one step.

Others here have said they'd like to have the ability to listen to books back . . . . .

To answer the question posed: I don't know.

Here's the Kindle release schedule since it's inception:

Nov 2007
Feb 2009
Summer 2009 -- the DX model
Aug 2010
Sept 2011 -- both Touch and new Basic model
October 2012 PW
Sept 2013 PW2
Sept 2014 Voyage -- as well as new Basic model with touch screen. (They no longer sell an eReader without a touch screen.)

The Fire tablets were first released in fall of 2011 and there has been at least one new model each year since.

stevene9 said:

Do you folks think they will have a new one this year, and what could they possibly offer in a new upgrade? The biggest thing I want is to be able to use other fonts, like we used to be able to with "USE_ALT_FONTS".

Steve

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It's early in the year to make predictions. I actually wouldn't be surprised to see a new entry level eInk Kindle of some kind, after last year's high end offering.

I think the ability to add fonts is something that the people who want it REALLY want it, but most owners don't care that much. For me, I never once put down a paper book because of the font, so the font choices that I have now are so many more than I had in paper versions, I'm pretty happy, but that's me; clearly others feel strongly. I recommend that you use [email protected] to request the ability be added.

I will say that perhaps the reason that Amazon removed the capability is that the found the number of service calls they had to answer due to people trying to add the ability and somehow doing something bad to their Kindles made it not worth allowing the option to continue. It's been a long time since I did it (tested it once just to see the difference), so I don't really recall how difficult it was, but my experience in tech support has been if there's a way to do it wrong, someone will. In the early days, we did have people occasionally post here who had bricked their Kindles by trying to do some of the customizations that used to be available.

Betsy