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Aluminum back makes the e-reader heavier, but not so heavy it's uncomfortable. Double the storage of the plastic version. Compatible with new Kindle Click remote.
Aluminum is ad-free (plastic version can be ad-free if you pay extra). Expensive for the least amount of features in a Kindle. No warm light, and no auto-adjusting light like you'll get on the aluminum version of other Kindles.
Not compatible with Kindle Page Turn Cover. Amazon announced a new Kindle lineup at the start of the month, with new versions of the Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite, and Kindle Colorsoft. The base Kindle is the first one available, with both a plastic version and an aluminum version.
It's simply named the Kindle Aluminum, while the aluminum versions of the Paperwhite and Colorsoft are now the new Signature Editions with extra features (like wireless charging, an auto-adjusting front light, and a couple AI features). The Kindle Aluminum only offers the AI features compared to the Signature Editions, while also including a different body, 32 GB of storage, and no lock screen ads. It's not really enough to validate the price change, yet still I find myself loving it.
Notably, it comes in two colors, Seaglass Green and Alpine Sky. The latter is currently sitting just a few inches away from me as I write this, glinting in the sunlight. It's the shade of blue I had hoped the MacBooks would be when Apple released its Sky Blue color in 2025, and every single reader friend I've shown it to has said they want it for the color alone.
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