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8th gen kindle basic uses IR (infrared) grid over the screen to detect where you are touching, not capacitative touch as with the front-lit Kindles. Anything that is not transparent to IR will be detected as a touch - which is to say just about any material.
There are tradeoffs: IR does not require an additional layer over the screen, so there’s less diffusion, and it is not sensitive to variance in fingertip capacitance due to coldness or dryness, and anything works as a stylus if you don’t want to get skin oil on the screen. But it seems most people prefer front light.
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