The New Entry-level Kindle Colorsoft Is $30 Off For A Limited Time

Amazon’s 16GB Kindle Colorsoft is little than a period old, but it’s already connected waste for $219.99 ($30 off) astatine Amazon, Best Buy, and Target. Meanwhile, nan caller Colorsoft Kids — which includes a 12-month subscription to Amazon Kids Plus, a two-year extended warranty, and a cover-style lawsuit — has been discounted to $239.99 ($30 off) astatine Amazon, Best Buy, and Target. Both ad-free e-readers characteristic a seven-inch colour E Ink display, IPX8 waterproofing, and a artillery that tin past up to 8 weeks connected a azygous charge. 

The 16GB Colorsoft is Amazon’s newest colour e-reader, and it has galore of nan aforesaid features recovered connected past year’s Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition. It offers nan aforesaid page move speeds and useful good erstwhile reference some monochrome and colour books; however, for illustration pinch nan step-up model, nan solution drops from 300ppi to 150ppi erstwhile reference books successful color, which was noticeable but not a dealbreaker successful our testing. Viewing PDFs successful colour connected nan Signature Edition via nan Send to Kindle service worked good enough, too, but transferring them from a machine via USB-C stripped their color. 

Overall, Amazon’s entry-level Colorsoft is nan champion colour e-reader successful its value range. If you emotion reference schematic novels aliases books pinch a batch of illustrations, you’ll get a overmuch richer acquisition compared to reference nan aforesaid titles connected a monochrome Kindle (it besides won’t irritate your eyes arsenic overmuch arsenic staring astatine a telephone aliases tablet screen). That being said, you do suffer immoderate features erstwhile stepping down from nan Signature Edition, including support for wireless charging and an auto-adjusting beforehand light. The Signature Edition besides has doubly nan retention (32GB) and supposedly an other 4 weeks of artillery life, though we haven’t utilized nan entry-level exemplary agelong capable to corroborate nan latter.