Amazon wants to sell your Kindle’s physical buttons back to you for $35

Amazon has new Kindles. The company says it redesigned the lineup from the ground up. I look at them and see, well, Kindles. What new can you do with a slab of digital ink? Not much. Still, they made the front completely flat, with no seams, like a phone. And some of them come wrapped all around in colors with names like ube, alpine sky, seaglass green. Like all recent Kindles, the new versions have no physical buttons. But it seems some people miss the ability to click to a new page because Amazon is now offering a new $80 cover with page-turn buttons and a $35 Kindle Bluetooth clicker. [Photo: Amazon] Goodbye to buttons These gadgets for your gadget is an interesting choice considering earlier Kindles all had physical buttons. Amazon started to phase them out with the first Kindle Touch back in 2011. Much to its users’ dismay, Amazon discontinued the last physical-button model—the Oasis—in October 2024. That was the only Kindle still sold with physical page-turn buttons. Amazon added a workaround in 2025: A ‘Double Tap to Page Turn’ gesture that lets you tap the sides or back of the 2024 Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Colorsoft to advance a page. But that only goes forward, not ba…