The origin of Amazon as a company was closely linked with the books. During the early years, Amazon was nothing more than a website where people bought books and movies over the Internet. As the business expanded, Amazon investigated so as not to remain a simple online store. Today, one of the company’s most advanced products is its Alexa assistant, but the first product that those from Seattle managed to put in every home was the Kindle, which to this day remains the quintessential e-reader. For a time, we all bought a amazon-kindle, and many of us leave it abandoned for a long time. If you’ve found your Kindle and now need to know the model for some reason, so you can tell:
Identify your Amazon Kindle with these easy steps
exist 10 generations of the Amazon Kindle, and all have their characteristics and peculiarities. Of course, within each generation there are devices of various sizes and with different features. If you want to buy a new cover for your reader, if you need to replace the battery of the device buying a spare part or if you are simply going to put your Kindle for sale on Wallapop now that you have found it, you will need to know the exact model you have in the hands.
As if that were not enough, Amazon has a very peculiar way of cataloging its Kindles, and the classification they chose for this product may lack some logic. Therefore, let’s see how you can know the model of your Amazon Kindle:
If your Kindle turns on and works
Let’s go to the best case. Your Kindle is on and working fine enough that you can read a book on it or access settings. If this is your case, do the Next steps:
- Go to the menu of setting of your Amazon Kindle.
- Go now to the option ‘Information‘ and go into that menu.
- will appear all technical data of your deviceamong which will be the serial number, the MAC address of the network card and also the exact model of the device.
If your Kindle won’t turn on
In this case, things get a bit more complex. Both on the back of your Kindle and in the box—if you keep it—comes a number that is associated with the model.
Well, your mission now will be to check that model to find out exactly what version you have. Here is a list so you can quickly identify your model:
Amazon Kindle Models by Generations
To identify your Amazon Kindle model, just recognize these numbers within the prefix of your serial number. As we said, this code is both on the back of the reader and on its box.
1st Generation
- Kindle (2007) – Models: B100, B101
2nd Generation
- Kindle 2 (2009) – Models: B002, B003
- Kindle DX (2009) – Models: B004, B005, B009
3rd Generation:
- Kindle 3 (2010) – Models: B008, B006, B00A
4th Generation
- Kindle 4 (2011) – Models: B00E, B023, 9023
- Kindle Touch (2012) – Models: B00F, B011, B010.
5th Generation
- Kindle 5 (2012) – Model: B012
- Kindle Paperwhite (2012) – Models: B024, B01B, B020, B01C, B01D, B01F
6th Generation
- Kindle Paperwhite (2013) – Models: B0D4, B0F2, B0D8, B0D7, B0D6, B0D5, B062, B061, B060, B05F, B05A, B017, 90F2, 90D8, 90D7, 90D6, 90D5, 90D4, 905F, 905A,9062, 9061,9060,9017
7th Generation
- Kindle Basic (2014) – Models: B0C6, 90C6, B0DD, 90DD
- Kindle Voyage (2014) – Models: B013, 9013, B054, 9054, B053, 9053, B02A, B052, 9052
- Kindle Paperwhite 3 (2015) – Models: G090G2, G090G4, G090G5, G090G6, G090G7, G090KB, G090KC, G090KE, G090KF, G090LK, G090LL
8th Generation
- Kindle Basic 2 (2016) – Models: G000K9, G000KA
- Kindle Oasis (2016) – Models: G0B0GC, G0B0GD, G0B0GR, G0B0GU, G0B0GT
- Kindle PaperWhite 3 (2015) – Models: G090G2, G090G4, G090G5, G090G6, G090G7, G090KB, G090KC, G090KE, G090KF, G090LK, G090LL
9th Generation
- Kindle Oasis 2 (2017) – Models: G000P8, G000S1, G000SA, G000S2
10th Generation (current)
- Kindle Basic 3 (2019) – Models: G0910L, G0910WH
- Kindle Oasis 3 (2019) – Models: G0011L, G000WQ, G000WM, G000WL
