I've Got My Eye On This Kindle Essentials Bundle Deal During Amazon Prime Day (and Its Price Dropped Lower)

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Looking to return immoderate books connected your summertime vacation? If you've sewage respective novels you're hauling connected flights, to nan beach, aliases successful your backpack, I tin deliberation of 1 lightweight solution to your book-induced backmost ache. A Kindle. 

A Kindle is simply a portable, e-reading powerhouse that is loaded pinch each book connected your to-read list. Right now, Amazon is moving a woody connected its Kindle Essentials bundle, which includes its latest Kindle, a cloth screen case, and a powerfulness adapter for 31% off. The woody is unrecorded passim Amazon Prime Day. The arena began connected July 8 and runs done July 11. 

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That slices nan value of nan Essentials bundle from $162 to $111. This discount is unrecorded connected some nan Black and Matcha Kindle, and connected nan 3rd time of Prime Day it was lowered by $10 more. On nan 2nd time of Prime Day, nan Essentials bundle was $121, and now it's going for $111. The cloth lawsuit colors see Black, Pink, and Matcha. 

I tested nan 2024 guidelines exemplary Kindle and fell successful emotion pinch its bladed and portable build. I recovered myself downloading much e-books from my nationalist room and reference a wider assortment of novels because of really easy it was to rent them done Libby and publication them while I sat connected nan subway aliases passed nan clip successful nan waiting room of doctor's appointments. The Kindle really fits successful my overgarment pocket, which is astir miraculous for a female fixed really mini women's pockets are. The page-turning and book-loading speeds were importantly quicker than my Kindle Oasis aliases Kindle Paperwhite from 2022. 

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I urge nan guidelines exemplary Kindle to group who person ne'er owned an e-reader before, because nan Kindle Paperwhite has a fewer much functionalities that awesome bookworms and e-reader obsessives would appreciate, but make nary quality to e-reading novices. You're getting astir six weeks of artillery life connected nan guidelines exemplary Kindle -- a agelong clip successful betwixt charges, to opportunity nan least. 

I besides adored nan agleam Matcha colorway of nan guidelines exemplary Kindle, Kindle's newest greenish colour that it added to its 2024 Kindle lineup. It's a flashy popular of colour that adds immoderate brightness to nan e-reader, truthful you tin easy find it successful your backpack aliases book bag. 

"What the 2024 Kindle does have, however, is beautiful and effective simplicity that makes it easy to urge nan e-reader to anyone looking to dial into their reference goals successful nan caller year," I constitute successful my review. 

So if you're looking to adhd a screen and an adapter to your caller Kindle purchase, I'd urge jumping connected this 25% discount while it's live. 

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How I rated this deal

I complaint this woody a 4/5 because nan discount is 31% disconnected nan Kindle Essentials bundle's original price, and Kindle e-readers don't spell connected waste terribly often, extracurricular of deals events for illustration Amazon Prime Day aliases Cyber Week.