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Amazon's Kindle Voyage May Be Over (cnet.com)
Amazon's Kindle e-reader family seems to have lost a member along the way, with the disappearance of the Voyage from its Kindle Family listing. From a report: The site now lists just three models in its lineup of eight configurations, the Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Oasis. Good e-Reader first noticed this a few weeks back, saying the Voyage seems to have vanished in July. In years past when Amazon has refreshed its Kindle e-readers and Fire tablets, it has done it in the summer or fall. The high-end Oasis was last updated in October 2017, but the most recent midline Paperwhite last saw changes in 2015, and the basic Kindle in 2016. Chances are one or both of the older models will receive an update in the near future.
Since they started adding ads to the home screen (Even the one without special offers), these were no longer worth buying.
The millennial that doesn't like most of the stuff designed for millennials.
Making new Kindle Fires. Those are still selling, and being updated. Pure Kindle readers - eInk, monochrome - are dying. Why pay $79 for an eInk reader, when you can get a full-blown tablet for the same price?
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