E-readers are electronic devices with a very long lifespan. Very often, after 7 to 10 years, it is the battery that loses a lot of its autonomy and ends up retiring your e-reader. Amazon has decided to significantly improve things with its latest generation of Kindle e-readers.
First of all, additional information is available on Amazon.com on the “Amazon Kindle Battery Guide” page here: https://link.amazon/B038xVDVV
There you can read that the Kindle e-reader’s battery has a monitoring system accessible from the settings. There is therefore a status indicator that shows whether the battery is working normally or in a degraded state. In other words, you can know whether or not your battery has lost autonomy.
Good news: if there is a problem, your battery is replaceable, since the new e-readers have a case that opens easily, at least for the basic e-reader, as shown in this photo taken by the video creator The eBook Reader:
I have no idea whether this will be the same for waterproof models like the new Kindle Paperwhite, however…
So, for the cheapest Kindle, the plastic version opens easily, while the aluminum model requires a screwdriver to access the e-reader’s battery.
According to some posts on social media, the new Kindle is so easy to open that some protective cases split it in two when you remove it from the e-reader.
