Amazon’s 16GB Kindle Colorsoft is lower than a month outdated, nevertheless it’s already on sale for $219.99 ($30 off) at Amazon, Greatest Purchase, and Goal. In the meantime, the brand new Colorsoft Youngsters — which features a 12-month subscription to Amazon Youngsters Plus, a two-year prolonged guarantee, and a cover-style case — has been discounted to $239.99 ($30 off) at Amazon, Greatest Purchase, and Goal. Each ad-free e-readers function a seven-inch colour E Ink show, IPX8 waterproofing, and a battery that may last as long as eight weeks on a single cost.
The 16GB Colorsoft is Amazon’s latest colour e-reader, and it has most of the identical options discovered on final 12 months’s Kindle Colorsoft Signature Version. It affords the identical web page flip speeds and works nicely when studying each monochrome and colour books; nevertheless, like with the step-up mannequin, the decision drops from 300ppi to 150ppi when studying books in colour, which was noticeable however not a dealbreaker in our testing. Viewing PDFs in colour on the Signature Version by way of the Ship to Kindle service labored nicely sufficient, too, however transferring them from a pc by way of USB-C stripped their colour.
Total, Amazon’s entry-level Colorsoft is the most effective colour e-reader in its value vary. When you love studying graphic novels or books with a number of illustrations, you’ll get a a lot richer expertise in comparison with studying the identical titles on a monochrome Kindle (it additionally gained’t irritate your eyes as a lot as looking at a cellphone or pill display). That being stated, you do lose some options when stepping down from the Signature Version, together with help for wi-fi charging and an auto-adjusting entrance gentle. The Signature Version additionally has twice the storage (32GB) and supposedly an additional 4 weeks of battery life, although we haven’t used the entry-level mannequin lengthy sufficient to substantiate the latter.
