Other later developments include devices with larger eink displays such as the Kindle Oasis 2 (2017) at 7' and the Paperwhite 5 (2021) at 6.8', as well as a device with a 10.2' screen and Wacom stylus support called the Kindle Scribe (2022). After an initial 3 generations the Kindle Fire tablet branding was changed in 2014 to Amazon Fire, reflecting their wider capabilities as an Android-derived tablet. Active Content support was introduced in 2010 only to be dropped from new Kindle devices in late 2014. However, the Kindle e-reader has often been a narrow-purpose device for reading rather than being multipurpose hardware that might create distractions while reading. The range included early generation devices with a keyboard (Kindle Keyboard), devices with touch-sensitive, lighted, high-resolution screens (Kindle Paperwhite), early generations of a tablet computer with the Kindle app ( Kindle Fire), and low-priced devices with a touch-sensitive screen (Kindle 7).

The DX remained the only non-6' eink Kindle device until the 2017 introduction of the Oasis 2. Kindle hardware evolved from the original Kindle introduced in 2007 and the Kindle DX (with its larger 9.7' screen) introduced in 2009. They felt this was an apt metaphor for reading and intellectual excitement. Lab126 asked them to name the product, and they suggested 'kindle', meaning to light a fire. īranding consultants Michael Cronan and Karin Hibma devised the Kindle name. Amazon originally used the codename Fiona for the device. In 2004, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos instructed the company's employees to build the world's best e-reader before Amazon's competitors could. All Kindle devices integrate with Windows and macOS file systems and Kindle Store content and, as of March 2018, the store had over six million e-books available in the United States. Currently, it comprises a range of devices, including e-readers with E Ink electronic paper displays and Kindle applications on all major computing platforms. The hardware platform, which Amazon subsidiary Lab126 developed, began as a single device in 2007. Amazon Kindle devices enable users to browse, buy, download, and read e-books, newspapers, magazines and other digital media via wireless networking to the Kindle Store.

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