I was just examining some photos of the new Kindles on the Amazon website. Although i don't care for the silver bezels, I did notice what is perhaps a significant improvement. The K3 bezel has more or less squared corners around the screen. The new Kindle bezels (Touch and Non-touch) have what appear to be more rounded corners. This might be significant from an engineering perspective. The K3 sometimes developed hairline cracks in their bezel near the corners. The more squared a corner the more likely it can crack when stressed. The new more rounded corners should help to prevent these stress cracks from occurring on the new models.