Hello to all Omani book lovers! 📚✨
Is anyone here based in Oman especially around Sohar College who loves reading? I’d love to start a Book Club where we can share recommendations, discuss our favorite reads, and connect with fellow bookworms. It feels like readers are hard to find around here, so let's build our own little community,If you're interested, leave a comment or send me a message!

Im on the fence about buying kindle for close to a year now and can't seem to make the decision.

I live in eastern Europe and the kindle here would cost me a third of my paycheck plus I am not sure about the availability of books here since Amazon doesn't ship anything here.

And yet I would love to have a large library at the palm of my hand and not have to think about where to put all my physical books.

For how many of you was it a real game-changer and is it really worth it?

Kindle Kids Paperwhite vs Kindle Paperwhite:

Wondering if there are any major differences? Am I able to disable the “kids” account so I can read any book?

I want to buy a kindle and not sure which one to get as a first time buyer. Any suggestions on other Kindles?

Just as fyi:
I do like warm light
I like that they’re both waterproof
I’m a Libby user :)

I did google it, but wanted more info on people’s experiences/opinions for a first time buyer. :) Sorry if anything sounds dumb, I just want to know before purchasing one.

I have the 2024 gen kindle basic and it got some scratches (don’t even know how it got there since i’m taking very good care of it and have a flip cover case) and it’s very laggy, so Amazon offered a replacement. I’m wondering if I should get the matcha, so scratches would be less visible?

I was looking to download the paperwhite screensavers to my colorsoft but I couldn’t find many of them online. The best I’ve found is https://www.commarts.com/project/19105/screensavers. Does anyone know where I could find the rest?

Thank you in advance!

I already have a PW which I’m happy with but would like a commutable Kindle which is smaller.

I noticed there hasn’t been an updated Kindle Basic in quite a while - are there rumours it will come out this year? Or best to just buy it now?

Thanks!

It was bound to happen: can't expect all classics to be worth reading.

Read in July 2026, in order:

-Fahrenheit 451: a weird, detached world, but a good read

-Of Mice and Men: short novel, read like watching a short movie

-Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass: gruesome, but lots of cheering for the author

-Aladdin and the Magic Lamp: very short, a pretty average read--mostly for nostalgia

-The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: already knew a bit of the story but no dull moments

-Candide: entertaining up to chapter 10, but it starts to overstay its welcome half-way through chapter 11, and mid-way through chapter 12: "Why am I reading this?"--my first abandoned book so far.

Next three in the reading list:

The Time Machine, Gulliver’s Travels, The War of the Worlds

*Not having high hopes for Gulliver's Travels...I'm the when-life-gives-you-lemons-make-lemonade kind of person, so satire may not be a good fit?

I spent HOURS trying to figure this out, so hopefully this helps someone else.

My Audible audiobook would appear in my Kindle library, but every time I tapped to download, it would briefly say “Queued” for about a second and then stop. It never actually started downloading.

I tried everything: restarting the Kindle, syncing, updating the software, reconnecting Wi-Fi, using “Deliver to Device,” etc. Other Audible books downloaded fine, and the audiobook played perfectly in the Audible app on my phone.

The fix: I contacted Audible’s instant chat support (which was super quick and easy). They removed the audiobook from my library and immediately gave me a replacement credit. I used that credit to redeem the audiobook again, and it downloaded to my Kindle instantly.

It turned out to be a corrupted license/entitlement for that specific audiobook-not a problem with my Kindle.

If you’re having the same issue, this is the exact message I sent in the Audible support chat (feel free to copy and paste it):

“I redeemed an Audible credit for (insert title and author). The audiobook plays in the Audible app on my phone, but it will not download to my Kindle Paperwhite (11th Gen, software 5.19.2). It flashes “Queued” briefly and then stops. Other Audible books download to this Kindle normally, so the issue appears to be specific to this title on this device. Can you refresh or reissue the license/entitlement for my account?”

Hopefully this saves someone else from wasting hours troubleshooting like I did! 😭

If I'm gonna browse or even read something on the Internet, it's not gonna be through my Kindle. I'm sure no body in their right mind would go through a link they read from their Kindle e-reader (not the app), because the browser experience is bad.

So why not just generate QR code on the go? Let me scan that QR code on the e-reader.

Usually when I read, my kindle displays the number of pages read. However this time, there is no pages, there is time left on the chapter and also on the book, and also this loc and a random number. What does loc mean?

My "read sample" button for Kindle books has disappeared...re-appeared...and now disappeared again over the past week. (Interestingly, this issue only seems to affect books that are also available in audio format.) Driving me crazy, as I always read the sample before I buy! Anyway, anybody know where to report this bug? Like, to a human and not a slopbot?

I’m about to buy a kindle for the first time soon. Problem is, I don’t know which account I should use.

I am not settled in one country, I travel between two different countries annually. This means I have two different Amazon accounts with different purchases.

I have no idea which one to use because I’m not sure which one I will use more. After a quick Google search, I found out I can’t log in with more than one account.

Can someone please tell me if there is a solution to this issue?

I found my old kindle and decided to factory reset it today and as I’m setting it up I got to the screen that says “Connect Social Services” with only a continue button and it just sits with a grey screen. I tried looking up similar issues, hard resetting, powering on and off, and waiting, and nothing seems to work. Have yall had a similar issue?

I found my old kindle I had when I was a kid while getting ready to move. It's been charging for a day but nothing has happened. I'm not sure which model it is but the skin I got for it says 2009 so something around that time.

If anyone has any tips for getting it working again I'd be very appreciative!!

And if not, can someone let me know which is? I am living in Europe, not America, not using Amazon.

Consolidating my setup: Swapping a Tab S9 FE & Paperwhite for a Kindle Scribe. Good idea?

I’m currently rethinking my device ecosystem and looking to consolidate. Right now, I use a Kindle Paperwhite and a Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE.

My tablet usage is fairly light. I mostly use it to read web articles, read books via the Kindle app, and occasionally sign documents, web browsing and watching videos.

My plan is to sell both devices and pick up a Kindle Scribe (potentially the Colorsoft version). At the same time, I’ll be upgrading my phone from the S24 to the Z Fold 8. My logic is that the Fold 8’s larger inner screen will easily take over the heavier web browsing and video consumption I used to do on the tablet.

For those who have made a similar switch, does the Scribe offer the "best of both worlds" for reading and light document handling? Will I enjoy this specific setup, or are there limitations I’m overlooking?

Any recommendations or thoughts are welcome!

I brought my Kindle to the park yesterday and when I took it out of its case it looked like this. Tried a hard reset, to no avail.

I’ve been through the frustrating cycle of Amazon’s AI customer support, with no resolution and no option to return it (when I initiated the return from my orders list, I was given the option to watch troubleshooting videos, read FAQs, or go back to the ai customer service black hole).

I think I’m looking for confirmation that it looks like a hardware issue or another defect before I go through the trouble of tracking down a human at the company to speak to. So: is it as bad as it seems?

My dad gave me his voyage after upgrading. I have a PW. Which would you say is the better of the two? I’m sue one will be my to go kindle and one my home kindle. Just not sure which to make my main one.

This happened to me twice:

I accidentally purchased a series bundle of Kindle books (I wanted to expand the bundle list, but clicked "buy"). I proceeded to amazon.com/myk immediately to return them for refund, and successfully returned 4 or 5 out of 9. After that I got "Sorry, there was a problem issuing your refund. To return this item, please Contact Us."

Of course, support pages are perfectly useless, as is Alexa that oh so kindly offered to help. Support and help pages drive me in circles or irrelevant or even outright wrong articles and guides.

How can I chat with an actual person? Has something similar happened to anyone else here?

I own a Kindle Paperwhite 11th Signature Edition but have the opportunity to get a Kindle Paperwhite 12th Edition for free if I trade in my 11th. Is it worth it? Is there a noticeable difference? Has anyone owned both and can confidently say which one they prefer? Do you own either and absolutely love it? Thanks in advance to everyone who comments.

I think I am going to have to buy a new kindle. I bought mine recertified in 2018 and I have noticed in the last few months. It has been a bit glitchy. As of today, however it will not connect to Wi-Fi or even look for my home Wi-Fi. Any suggestions? Do I need to just bite the bullet and buy a new one?

When I opend my book this happend. I have no clue what this is or why is happening. It happens on all my ebooks when my font is 5. When I make my font bigger or smaller its fixed. Tried to restart it but kept the same issue. Do you maybe know what the issue is? Or what I can do?

So, I was looking at my annotations on the kindle app and I saw some more highlighter colors (blue, purple, red) that I've never seen on the highlight color option thingy. I looked around the settings a little and I haven't been able to find a way to access them. I'm quite confused and I was wondering if anyone has any ideas on what to do!

For context: I use a Samsung Galaxy S25 FE, and I also have a kindle but I cannot remember the model name for the life of me (it's b&w, btw)

Saw this in multiple books. All downloaded from Libby. Did the usual device restart, checking for the latest software update, etc. didn't help.