I don't remember much about the original Kindle Touch other than it had a brownish screen, at least mine did. But the Sony PRS-x50 series of readers from a few years back had an IR touchscreen that worked well with a stylus. Maybe if this new Kindle does have an IR touchscreen a stylus will also work with it. The bad thing about capacitive touchscreens is that a stylus will not work with them unless it is a capacitive one, and those are pricy and don't work that well.