The Kindle Colorsoft Brings Books To Life In Vivid Color, And It's At An All-time Low Price At Amazon

ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• The Kindle Colorsoft is disposable now for $279.
• It has a agleam show (even successful nonstop sunlight), customizable colour settings, and zippy capacity while browsing titles and turning pages.
• It could beryllium a spot larger to get nan afloat effect of nan colour display.

The new Amazon Kindle Colorsoft is discounted for $55 correct now, making it costs $225 during nan Big Spring Sale event. This 20% connection is nan astir discounted we've seen nan instrumentality since its debut past fall. 

To avid readers, nan Kindle has been a champion since its inception successful 2007. Each caller Kindle exemplary gives readers much precocious features and faster performance. But now, pinch nan caller Kindle Colorsoft, readers get a vivid colour show to bask their books successful a caller way.

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The Kindle Colorsoft is nan latest loop successful nan Kindle lineup. It features nan aforesaid 300 ppi show that's modular for e-readers, isolated from it besides has a 150 ppi show for colour images, on pinch 120 nits of brightness to really make your pages pop.  Depending connected your colour preferences, you tin customize nan colour settings to modular aliases vivid. 

Amazon dubs nan instrumentality arsenic "color without compromise", and arsenic personification who's tested galore e-readers this twelvemonth alone, I was impressed by nan Kindle Colorsoft arsenic a invited summation to nan colour e-reader world.

Fresh retired of nan box, nan Colorsoft proudly displays its colour capabilities, since moreover erstwhile turned off, nan show dims to 1 of Kindle's built-in backgrounds. Alternatively, you tin take to show your book's screen successful standby mode truthful you tin spot nan creation really it was meant to beryllium seen.

After turning connected nan instrumentality and mounting it up (super easy to do, particularly if you've owned a Kindle before), nan first point I really noticed was nan performance: it's fast. Compared to my guidelines exemplary Kindle (2022 version) it zips done nan Kindle room erstwhile choosing a book, and pages successful your book move accelerated without immoderate annoying lag effects. 

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Like nan Kindle Paperwhite, nan Colorsoft is ace agleam and tin beryllium publication successful nonstop sunlight without drowning retired nan colour connected nan screen. To trial really nan Colorsoft's 120-nit brightness held up successful nonstop sunlight to competitors, I placed it extracurricular connected its highest brightness adjacent to 2 different colour e-readers astatine their highest brightness: a Kobo Libra Colour and a Boox Note Air C 3. The Colorsoft's colour show and brightness outperformed nan Kobo Libra Colour successful nonstop sunlight, and it had little lag erstwhile moving betwixt titles.

Compared to nan Colorsoft, nan Boox Note Air C 3 had nan aforesaid precocious brightness and was arsenic speedy arsenic nan Kindle erstwhile moving done pages, particularly erstwhile reference a colour magazine. However, upon seeing nan Boox and nan Kindle broadside by side, you tin decidedly announcement nan pixelization connected nan Boox's colour display, arsenic opposed to nan soft colour that nan Kindle provides.

The Colorsoft's colour features don't extremity there: you tin besides item passages successful your books successful different colors and shape them into categories (i.e., quotes successful yellow, facts successful blue, characters to retrieve successful purple, etc.).  

While I'm not a instrumentality of reference comics, Keeley Boehmer, Principal Product Manager for Kindle, told maine that nan Colorsoft provides panel-by-panel reference for comics, making it easy to spot nan elements nan writer intended for each panel. In addition, a pinch-and-zoom characteristic allows you to really spot nan colour images successful detail.

Another awesome characteristic of nan Colorsoft is that it's h2o resistant (rated IPX8), truthful you tin publication it by nan beach, pool, aliases successful nan bath. Plus, it has wireless charging, a characteristic antecedently only disposable successful nan Kindle Paperwhite.

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I person virtually nary complaints pinch this Kindle isolated from possibly its mini size. The size itself is easy and comfortable to hold, but reference colour books aliases magazines, a bigger size for illustration that of nan Boox Note Air C 3's 10.3-inch show makes a greater impact, and you tin really spot and admit nan colour images amended erstwhile seeing nan full page.

ZDNET's buying proposal

In nan world of colour e-readers, nan Kindle Colorsoft is simply a apical competitor acknowledgment to its customizable colour display, accelerated capacity successful downloading books and page-turning, and wireless charging. The colour show isn't pixelated for illustration immoderate different colour e-readers, and its item characteristic enables caller ways to publication books.

If you're personification who sounds a batch of books aliases comics pinch color, nan Colorsoft is decidedly worthy it. However, if you publication chiefly successful achromatic and white, you tin prevention $120 and opt for nan caller Kindle Paperwhite, which has conscionable arsenic accelerated performance. 

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