Amazon’s 16GB Kindle Colorsoft is $30 off forward of Labor Day weekend

You is perhaps feeling prefer it’s time to improve your ereader and even purchase your first one, significantly if you happen to’re hoping to do some studying this Labor Day weekend. Alternatively, it might be that you just’re in search of a method to learn digital comics with out the entire distractions of an iOS or Android pill. In such instances, it might be price contemplating Amazon’s Kindle Colorsoft, which is presently $30 off at $220.

That is a file low worth for this particular model, which has 16GB of storage — half as a lot because the Signature Version. This model additionally lacks the auto-adjusting entrance mild and wi-fi charging discovered within the Signature Version, which prices $280.

In our review of the Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition (which is in any other case the identical because the model that is presently on sale), we described it as a “good Kindle” with which “Amazon has lastly stuffed a obvious gap in its ereader lineup.” The fast load occasions and web page turns, and pinch-to-zoom function are particular highlights, whereas we had been glad to see that Amazon is not charging a premium to show off lock display screen adverts.

The Kindle Colorsoft has a seven-inch colour E Ink show with a pixel density of 300 ppi for black-and-white content material and 150 ppi for colour content material. Amazon claims the ereader can run for as much as eight weeks on a single cost and that it has a water-resistant ranking of IPX8 (the corporate says it is in a position to endure immersion in 2 meters of recent water for 60 minutes). There’s additionally Audiobook assist.

Certainly one of our predominant drawbacks was that the machine was costly, however this low cost mitigates that concern considerably. We additionally felt that there was a small dip in sharpness and distinction whereas studying black-and-white textual content. In any case, if a colour ereader is of curiosity to you, the Kindle Colorsoft is an efficient possibility, particularly at this worth.

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