The 2024 Amazon Kindle is a very pocketable device that can carry your entire library, but it improves very little over its successor.

Amazon’s 2024 Kindle Paperwhite is already discounted for Black Friday. The new ereader has faster page turns, a larger screen and longer battery life. It’s marked down to $130 ($30 off).

The 11th-gen Paperwhite update, released in late 2021 for $140, was a big quality-of-life upgrade, with a bigger 6.8-inch screen, adjustable color temperature, USB-C, more frontlight LEDs, and (in the more-expensive Signature Edition) an auto-brightness sensor and wireless charging.

With a high-resolution, glare-free and paper-like display plus an adjustable built-in light and a dark mode — this e-reader can be used day and night. Its 16 GB of storage is enough to store thousands of books (and .

You can save as much as $25 on each of them, and you may find a couple of good reasons to upgrade if you already have older models.

Thankfully, this early Black Friday deal has slashed the prices on Amazon’s newest Kindle down to $85 (23 percent off) and the newest Kindle Paperwhite down to $130 (19 percent off). Both were released this year,