{"id":106240,"date":"2025-03-26T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T20:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/newer-kindles-get-a-work-around-for-touchscreen-page-turning-in-new-software-update\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T20:42:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T20:42:00","slug":"newer-kindles-get-a-work-around-for-touchscreen-page-turning-in-new-software-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/newer-kindles-get-a-work-around-for-touchscreen-page-turning-in-new-software-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Newer Kindles get a work-around for touchscreen page-turning in new software update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Amazon discontinued <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2016\/05\/review-amazons-kindle-oasis-is-a-pricey-look-at-the-future-of-e-readers\/\">2016&#8217;s Kindle Oasis<\/a> in early 2024, and since then, the company hasn&#8217;t offered a new e-reader with physical page turn buttons or any other alternative to touchscreen input. There still isn&#8217;t a Kindle with buttons and the feature seems unlikely to return, but buyers of <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2024\/11\/review-amazons-2024-kindle-paperwhite-makes-the-best-e-reader-a-little-better\/\">the latest Kindle Paperwhite<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2024\/10\/amazons-first-color-kindle-e-reader-the-kindle-colorsoft-will-run-you-280\/\">the Kindle Colorsoft<\/a> are getting a possible consolation prize in the new 5.18.1 software update: a &#8220;double tap to page turn&#8221; feature that will turn the page or move to the next screen when you double-tap on the back or side of the device.<\/p>\n<p>The 5.18.1 software update is available on all Kindle readers going back to 2018&#8217;s &#8220;10th generation&#8221; models, but the double-tap feature only works on the newest 12th-generation Paperwhite and the Colorsoft, not on any older Kindles or either Kindle Scribe model. We verified this firsthand by installing 5.18.1 on a 10th-generation Paperwhite, but we also checked the release notes for each individual Kindle on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/help\/customer\/display.html?nodeId=GKMQC26VQQMM8XSW\">Amazon&#8217;s software update page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All Kindles that get the 5.18.1 update also gain access to new book summaries for &#8220;thousands of bestselling English language Kindle books,&#8221; aiming to make it easier to pick up a new book in an ongoing series.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/03\/newer-kindles-get-a-work-around-for-touchscreen-page-turning-in-new-software-update\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/03\/newer-kindles-get-a-work-around-for-touchscreen-page-turning-in-new-software-update\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon discontinued 2016&#8217;s Kindle Oasis in early 2024, and since then, the company hasn&#8217;t offered a new e-reader with physical page turn buttons or any other alternative to touchscreen input. There still isn&#8217;t a Kindle with buttons and the feature seems unlikely to return, but buyers of the latest Kindle Paperwhite or the Kindle Colorsoft are getting a possible consolation prize in the new 5.18.1 software update: a &#8220;double tap&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","tve_updated_post":"","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{},"tcb2_ready":0,"tcb_editor_enabled":0,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Newer Kindles get a work-around for touchscreen page-turning in new software update - UshopWell.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/newer-kindles-get-a-work-around-for-touchscreen-page-turning-in-new-software-update\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Newer Kindles get a work-around for touchscreen page-turning in new software update - UshopWell.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Amazon discontinued 2016&#8217;s Kindle Oasis in early 2024, and since then, the company hasn&#8217;t offered a new e-reader with physical page turn buttons or any other alternative to touchscreen input. 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