It has been 14 years since Amazon made a Kindle e-reader without a touchscreen, and while I certainly don't miss the days of slowly paging through my e-book library with the arrow keys on my Kindle Keyboard, the move to touch navigation did have one unfortunate result, at least for a small subset of readers: the loss of physical page-turn buttons. Once standard on all Kindles, they eventually became a premium feature available only on the pricey Kindle Oasis, before being dropped from the lineup entirely when that device was retired in 2024.
While this fall's overhaul of the Kindle lineup introduced upgrades like a metal enclosure and a flush-front design, Amazon hasn't exactly reintroduced physical buttons, but the company has launched a new accessory to appeal to the roughly 5% of the market (per Kevin Keith, Amazon's vice president in charge of Kindle) that essentially turns your new Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition into a Kindle Oasis: the Kindle Page-Turn Cover.
The Page-Turn Cover builds the buttons into the case
Credit: Joel CunninghamBy default, the top button will advance you forward by one page, and the bottom button will do the reverse, though you can change which does which in your device settings. While the physical buttons on some Boox and Barnes & Noble Nook devices allow you to map different functions—like skipping an entire chapter or scrubbing through a book quickly—to a long-press or double-tap, as of this writing, the Page-Turn Cover will only let you turn one page at a time. The buttons also only work for turning pages; you'll still navigate your library and the device menus using the touchscreen.
You might think that changing pages with an accessory would slow down your device, but in my testing, the Page-Turn Cover actually seems to turn pages faster than tapping the touchscreen. Though the new Kindles are quite speedy, there's still a perceptible lag between when you tap the screen and when the display changes to a new page. Not so with the Page-Turn Cover attached; although the very first page turn after attaching it is a bit laggy, after that it is basically instantaneous. I can't imagine this will be a game-changer for anyone—the difference is a mere fraction of a second—but it's worth noting all the same.
Physical buttons come at a high price
Amazon Kindle Page-Turn Cover $79.99 at Amazon Shop Now Shop Now $79.99 at Amazon Amazon Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition (2026) $249.99 at Amazon Shop Now Shop Now $249.99 at Amazon Amazon Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition (2026) $319.99 at Amazon Shop Now Shop Now $319.99 at Amazon SEE 0 MOREIn short, that means if you want a Kindle with physical buttons, you'll have to shell out at least $330, or $80 more than the third-generation Kindle Oasis cost when it launched back in 2019. (For what it's worth, you can get the Oasis-like Boox Go 7, one of my picks for the top non-Kindle e-readers, for around $270).
Why physical buttons matter on an e-reader
If you've made do without them so far, you probably aren't missing them, but if you're an old-school e-reader (or just a particularly tactile person), they are definitely a nice bonus. Are they worth an $80 upgrade? That's going to depend on the reader.
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