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stumped · 07-28-2019, 11:35 AM

amazons numbering / naming is a nightmare

wikipedia is best for clearing up confusions

amazon marketing dept will quote generation , and/or years as well as numbers, plus they invent/discard names: e.g. kindle Fire ( dropped), voyage ( no longer in production). HDX ( ditto), Paperwhite, oasis... "Basic" is another moveable label - tends to get applied to whatever is the cheapest one at the time. and don't get me started on their use of " all new"

and often there s no visible difference between generations, so if you are looking to buy used on ebay it can be challenging. e.g. a paperwhite gen 1 looks like a paperwhite gen 3 but has poorer resolution... a 3rd Gen HDX looks just like a 4th Gen HDX...

this applies to kindles and to tablets- i have twice bought tablet covers that didn't work properly because I muddled my generations , and if you get the gen or year wrong, chances are that auto wake/sleep will not work as they move the magnets around inside the designs.

for kindles, try this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle
and for fire / kindle fire:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Fire_tablet

then you have to match the wiki entries to whatever marketing blurb you find on the for sale listings

07-28-2019, 11:35 AM	#16
stumped Wizard Posts: 3,305 Karma: 10259306 Join Date: May 2016 Device: kobo forma, Kobo Libra, Huawei media Tab, fire HD10, PW3 HDX8.9,	amazons numbering / naming is a nightmare wikipedia is best for clearing up confusions amazon marketing dept will quote generation , and/or years as well as numbers, plus they invent/discard names: e.g. kindle Fire ( dropped), voyage ( no longer in production). HDX ( ditto), Paperwhite, oasis... "Basic" is another moveable label - tends to get applied to whatever is the cheapest one at the time. and don't get me started on their use of " all new" and often there s no visible difference between generations, so if you are looking to buy used on ebay it can be challenging. e.g. a paperwhite gen 1 looks like a paperwhite gen 3 but has poorer resolution... a 3rd Gen HDX looks just like a 4th Gen HDX... this applies to kindles and to tablets- i have twice bought tablet covers that didn't work properly because I muddled my generations , and if you get the gen or year wrong, chances are that auto wake/sleep will not work as they move the magnets around inside the designs. for kindles, try this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle and for fire / kindle fire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Fire_tablet then you have to match the wiki entries to whatever marketing blurb you find on the for sale listings Last edited by stumped; 07-28-2019 at 11:41 AM.