The Kindle Colorsoft Is Now A Far Better Deal Thanks To Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

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Brandon Widder

Brandon Widder is a elder editor overseeing deals, gift guides, and commerce. He spent six years spearheading buying guides and user tech sum astatine Digital Trends.

When we reviewed nan Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition precocious past year, 1 of our biggest gripes was nan e-reader’s first starting value of $279.99. It’s a precocious value to salary for an ebook reader, peculiarly fixed its smaller 7-inch show and deficiency of stylus support, but those shortcomings are much forgivable now that nan ebook scholar is connected waste astatine Amazon and Best Buy for an all-time debased of $224.99 ($55 off).

At its core, nan Colorsoft is really conscionable a Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition pinch a colour screen. It’s nan first Kindle to utilize E Ink’s colour surface technology, which provides much vibrancy than Kobo’s like-minded Libra Colour — moreover if nan 300ppi solution is halved successful colour mode. The resulting opposition and colour make browsing and reference books (or comics!) much pleasant and engaging, but don’t expect nan benignant of glossy, high-res images you mightiness get connected a dedicated tablet pinch an OLED aliases LCD display.

The Amazon Kindle Colorsoft e-reader sitting connected apical of a comic book.The Amazon Kindle Colorsoft e-reader sitting connected apical of a comic book.

$225

The Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition is Amazon’s first e-reader pinch a colour display. It besides boasts 32GB of storage, waterproofing, and support for wireless charging. Read our review.

That said, nan Colorsoft benefits from each nan upgrades you’ll find connected Amazon’s newer Kindles, arsenic good arsenic a slew of caller package updates. It features an auto-adjusting beforehand light, robust IPX8 waterproofing, and faster page-turning capacity than anterior models. You’ll besides get up to 2 months of artillery life and wireless charging, not to mention a patient 32GB of retention and zero ads. It’s the e-reader to get if you want a colour surface and want to instrumentality pinch Amazon.

In fact, it’s nan only one.

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