The New Kindle Colorsoft Is Now on Sale at Its Lowest Price Ever
I love Kindle e-readers and have been using them since the first Kindle Paperwhite came out in 2012, but until recently this was my dream of reading color comics on the Kindle. But then Amazon finally released Kindle Colorsoft last November. It finally came out with the Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition in November and is now on sale for $224.99 (originally $279.99), which is the lowest price reached since its release, according to price trackers . In fact, upgrading the Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition to the color version costs just $25 more.
You can also get it with three months of free Kindle Unlimited (it will automatically renew unless you cancel), and if you’re a Prime member, you can top it up with some free ebooks . Here’s what you can expect from Colorsoft.
The Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition is exactly what it sounds like: it’s a color Kindle e-reader. It’s essentially the same hardware and design as the Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition , with the same dimensions, weight, and 32GB of internal storage. It also has the same features, such as auto-adjusting front light, IPX8 waterproof rating, wireless charging, and an ad-free lock screen that displays either the cover of the book you’re reading or a regular wallpaper. Battery life is shorter than the Paperwhite: Amazon suggests it can last up to eight weeks compared to the Paperwhite’s 12, but that’s still good enough for most people.
The seven-inch Kaleido 3 display offers a standard resolution of 300 pixels per inch (ppi) for black-and-white content and 150 pixels per inch for color content, but it uses a unique stack developed by Amazon that improves color quality . If you love reading comics, that’s where the Colorsoft Signature Edition comes in: As Lifehacker technical editor Michele Erhardt notes in her review , the colors look like printed newspaper quality, and there’s a feature that provides close-ups of every comic panel so you can enjoy the art without having to manually zoom in on each panel.
Color e-ink is still in its infancy, but Kindle Colorsoft makes it better than ever and for not much more money, at least for now.