Prime members can now get $50 off the Kindle Colorsoft

Amazon expanded its ereader lineup a couple of months again with the Kindle Colorsoft, its first mannequin with a shade show. Nonetheless, at $280, it was definitely on the pricier finish — particularly in contrast with related gadgets from rivals. That equation has modified a bit, no less than for Amazon Prime members. They’re at present capable of .

That equates to a reduction of 18 p.c. It is the primary time that Amazon has lowered the worth of the Colorsoft, although you do have to be a Prime member to make the most of the deal.

There have been some teething points with the Colorsoft, with stories that some clients had been seeing a yellow band on the backside of their show. That difficulty emerged on our evaluate unit as properly. Amazon supplied refunds or replacements for affected gadgets.

The corporate despatched us a second evaluate unit on which the yellow band wasn’t current. The show appeared hotter usually too, which makes it look extra like bodily guide pages. We have now till we have been capable of take a look at the substitute unit for an extended interval and made certain the yellow-band drawback does not reoccur.

Web page turns are swift on the seven-inch show, which has a 300 pixel-per-inch (ppi) density for black-and-white materials and 150 ppi for shade content material. The machine has 32GB of built-in storage and it helps Audible audiobooks. The Kindle Colorsoft will run for as much as eight weeks on a single cost and you may prime up the battery wirelessly or through USB-C.

The ereader has an IPX8 score. it might face up to immersion in as much as two meters of freshwater for as much as 60 minutes and 0.25 meters of seawater for 3 minutes, in response to Amazon. So, you possibly can take the Kindle Colorsoft to the pool or seashore with out worrying an excessive amount of about it getting moist.

There is a pinch-to-zoom characteristic that needs to be useful for many who learn graphic novels on the Colorsoft. The auto-adjusting entrance gentle is helpful too. One other main constructive is that, not like different Kindle fashions, the Colorsoft does not characteristic lock display advertisements by default.

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