Introducing Amazon Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition (32 GB) – With colour display, auto-adjusting front light, wireless charging and long battery life + Kindle Unlimited

Firstly, please ignore the reviews which complain about washed-out colours, graininess and a darker screen. These are not the fault of Amazon, they are down to the limitations of the Kaleido 3 screen technology and affect every device that uses it. I watched a YouTube video comparing the Colorsoft to four other Kaleido 3 competitors and the Colorsoft had the best colour saturation, best contrast and least visible graininess, i.e. Amazon have done wonders with the available technology and that should be lauded. I was originally going to buy the Boox Go Color 7, since I also own Kobo and Adobe DRM'd ePub books, but that screen comparison changed my mind (plus there were too many negative reviews of Onyx's after-sales service). If you want an e-ink reader with colour then this is currently the best option.Secondly, if there is any yellowing at the bottom of the screen then I don't notice it.When reading ordinary books, at a normal reading distance, I don't see any difference between this and my previous Kindle. Obviously, if you hold the screen up to your face then you will notice a slight difference but there aren't too many people who have to do that in order to read.In short, I absolutely love this device. I've just finished my first comic compendium (the very first Spiderman comics) and the 'vintage' screen colours suit it perfectly. I'm going to subscribe to Kindle Unlimited just to get access to all of the other comics that it includes. Additionally, having the ability to read comics panel by panel is fantastic.Colour me happy :-)

I currently own the paperwhite 11th generation and I use it constantly. In comparison the colorsoft it much faster, doesn't have all the shadowing of the text behind from the previous page, has a slightly larger screen although personally I thought the previous size was fine. however having now had the product for just under a week I feel very differently about the product itself.When I compare this to my old model of the paper white the actual quality of the imagines is now very poor. they are just so blurred and not sharp at all. I have played around with the settings a lot and this just does not improve. the colours of course are muted since that is how it is designed however they are totally off in some instances. Mine does also have the yellow bar at the bottom of the screen. you can avoid this when reading by turning the background of the page to black instead but of course with no dark mode on this model there is no removal of this on the main page.If you are looking to upgrade or become a new kindle reader I would recommend the paper whites instead. the colour software even if they do fix the yellow bar is just not at the quality it needs to be for sale. For the price point too it is quite ridiculous. tis was an impulse buy that I really regret and I will be returning the product. I did message amazon gave them the serial number and they offered a replacement to be sent instead however not until the end of the month at the earliest. That would be given if they actually manage to fix the issues with the devises. Whilst I wouldn't mind as long as they are willing to fix the issue and provide the replacement however having thought through this I just do not think this is a model I would like to keep at this time. I am very happy with the black and white versions and since reading tends to mainly be in black and white its perfectly adequate. The upgraded paper white may be a nice idea just for the size and speed changes.

I bought the Colorsoft at launch. On my settings I don’t have an issue with a yellow band as do some other reviewers although there’s a barely detectable tint at the bottom of the screen. Despite my enchantment with the pastel colours, I didn’t take to it at first, comparing it unfavourably with the Oasis.The reason was habit. I’ve had to unlearn the muscle memory I’d developed for the ‘cradle hold’ I used for the physically wider Oasis. Adapting was a slow process of becoming conscious of these habits before letting go of them to begin to appreciate differences as improvements, and for a while I flipped back and forth between Oasis and Colorsoft.The Colorsoft is narrower than the Oasis so there are more ways of holding it that avoid fouling the off switch on the bottom edge (unintentionally switching it off when not using a case, my preference). Presumably it’s there for aesthetic reasons so that the hardware ‘controls’ (on switch, charging port, LED) are grouped together, in a departure from the laudable asymmetry of the Oasis. After finding it frustrating because I had grown accustomed to an on/off switch at the top, on the Oasis, and not having auto rotate for the display, I came to accept the choice.Auto rotate is arguably unnecessary since the device is symmetrical. There is alandscape view, which you can set manually (not seemingly automatic when zooming diagrams, as with the Oasis).I didn’t use a case for the Oasis: it has a metal body that slips in and out of a jacket pocket when on the move. An index finger poised at the top easily switched it on or off without having to rely on a case’s auto wake function.The narrower Colorsoft slips into a greater variety of pockets, (upside down when without a case, to avoid its own weight switching it on).I missed the physical, and satisfying to operate, page turn buttons on the Oasis where you can keep a finger rested on the ‘next’ button throughout your reading or slip it down to hit the back button. The Colorsoft touchscreen seems more responsive and reliable than previous versions, at the expense of grubbiness (fingers on screen rather than buttons), but it’s only recently that I noticed (a software upgrade?) the double tap (back or sides of body) for page turning (because there’s an accelerometer, although that doesn’t yet seem to activate anything else). I have enabled page turn animation (Font > More tab, scroll down) and the two used together come close to the feel of physically turning a page.The understated colour is hard to resist even when most of my reading is b&w. Colour in the covers, and highlighting, becomes something you miss: it’s a pleasant surprise to come across a hyperlink among black text, and find it displayed in blue, and the occasional cookbook is more rewarding with colour photographs or illustrations, in place of monochrome.Pages (or rather, their appearance beneath the mask on the glass front) are not squared off at their corners as on the Oasis, they have small radiuses not generally noticeable (a tad more pronounced than those of the earlier PaperWhite Signature, I see) but perhaps adding an unconscious impression of greater quality.It’s around 30 grams heavier than the Oasis, plus the effect if using a case.Its display is murkier when off (perhaps misleading some reviewers to think book covers aren’t displaying in colour), compared with the Oasis display, though there’s negligible difference when using the backlight.I can barely see the yellow at the bottom of the screen with my preferred screen settings. I’ve only once had a problem with a Kindle (a string of dead pixels creating a horizontal line across the screen of a Scribe) across many models. I’m picky but perhaps have been lucky. (People complained about uneven lighting on the first screen-lit versions, which I found settled within minutes of first use, maybe as the strip of LED lights equalised).It’s a neat package overall, most of the best improvements over time have been incorporated: Faster, Narrower, Waterproof, USB C.Book covers display in colour when off, without having to switch to vibrant as one reviewer suggests (though with the screen light also necessarily off, it’s not always apparent. Easier to see under artificial light, or maybe strong daylight). Sometimes it’s unexpected pleasure when a cover is attractive, for example Barbara Pym’s Excellent Women, or Tokyo Express.It seems faster than earlier models, but not quite fast enough to make viewing graphic novels seamless. I tried it with one of the Stéphane Heuet volumes of Proust, where you have to use the zoom facility (particularly because the pages are noticeably smaller than the screen, perhaps victim of aspect ratios) and while you don’t have to wait for the zoom, you do for a second for the frame colours to resolve.