--- title: Your Amazon Kindle Is About to Get Way Better description: Amazon is expanding a new reader-friendly font called Bookerly to a wide range of Kindle e-readers, including the Kindle Voyage and older versions of the Kindle Paperwhite and base Kindle. authors: - name: Brad Tuttle role: Senior Editor url: https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/ bio: Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals. education: Columbia University School of Journalism, MS at_money_since: 2014 articles: 366 covers: - Technology - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Pets - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes social: - https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle - https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225 former_staff: true published: '2015-08-11T14:14:50.000Z' modified: '2024-05-16T10:24:25.000Z' section: Technology tags: - Amazon - Amazon Kindle - e-readers - pubdesk - reading - Tech word_count: 189 canonical: https://money.com/amazon-kindle-bookerly-font/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![man holding amazon kindle in cafe](https://img.money.com/2015/08/150811_em_kindle.jpg) The [Kindle Paperwhite](https://time.com/3524541/best-amazon-kindle-voyage-vs-paperwhite/) has been called the ["best e-book reader"](https://time.com/3625970/amazon-kindle-paperwhite-e-book-reader/) for the money, offering a terrific reading experience for a relatively cheap price of $119. The recently released 2015 Kindle Paperwhite has drawn even more raves, with a high-res screen and a longer-lasting battery for the same old price. The new Kindle Paperwhite was also released with a new font. Which may not seem all that exciting. But the font, [Bookerly](http://www.amazon.com/b?node=11624010011), was designed specifically for Amazon for reading on digital screens, with improvements over the old standard font used on Kindles (Caecilia) in terms of text justification, image positioning, consistent paragraph breaks, easier-to-use footnotes, and "kerning," which is the technical term describing the spacing between letter pairs. Now, [Engadget](http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/11/kindle-update-bookerly/) has just reported, Bookerly is being expanded for use on a wide range of Kindles, including previous generation Kindle Paperwhites, as well as the Kindle Voyage, Kindle Touch, and the seventh-generation base Kindle. 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