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 :-)

***EDIT***After reaching out to Amazon customer service using live chat, agent suggested return or swap, we did the swap, the new Kindle Colorsoft arrived today, this version doesn't have the yellow tint at the bottom and colour profile is different from original Colorsoft received, but the screen overall feels very grainy, that remains exactly the same and now I'm considering this isn't a defect, it's just how colour eInk is at the moment, I really wanted to love this Kindle but I don't, in the end I'm getting the Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition (Nothing beats that's eReader, and in my opinion Amazon NAILED the PW screens that no one comes close to it) and ordered an iPad mini, reading books will always be on my PWSE and anything with colour like comics, manga etc will go with the iPad still using the Kindle app.I appreciate Amazon reaching out to me after I left this review, really feels like they do care about my experience but unfortunately it's not a product I can keep as eReader as gives me migraines and text isn't crisp.***Original Review***My partner gifted my a Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition as my 7th get PW was getting really really slow.The thought of a new Kindle got me excited and then I realised Amazon has released a Colour edition, as they are devices that last quite a long time... my PW7 lasted 10 years!!!! I decided why not upgrade to Colour and will be even more future proof.Reviews weren't great but Amazon updated article page saying that this issue has now been fixed and new shipped devices were fine, this isn't the case unfortunately, my device was purchased 4th March and delivered next day and it for sure has all the issues people mentioned before... grainy screen and yellow/dirty bottom screen.The yellow bottom band as people refer, mine has this issue, it's almost like it's dirty on the inside, for those that lived decades ago, when people were allowed to smoke indoors and white surfaces yellowed... gives me that vibe, and I have OCD so now it's the only thing I can see when I look at my Kindle.Reading during the day you barely can tell the yellow area, it's more reading with low light (that I do everyday before sleeping)Grainy - I know this isn't called paperwhite, instead it's called Colorsoft but the screen isn't like a Kindle screen, feels like a computer screen, text isn't crisp and the screen isn't white, it's like a light grey.This is VERY distracting when reading a book, as causes migraines, never a Kindle caused me migraines while reading.When reading during the day you can for sure see this layer of grain filter making everything look bad, I'm adding pictures to describe this.Another thing, compared to PWSE the screen on Colorsoft isn't "flush" between the screen cover there's a gap and takes the immersion, and that's when you feel like you're using a screen instead of a book (Kindle PWSE gives you a book like experience).Another thing that's really annoying, is the screen isn't aligned properly - from my reading angle I can see a gap at the top corners, again PWSE you don't have this.I really wanted to LOVE this product as I loved all my Kindles but this isn't it Amazon, I know competitors are all launching colour eInk screens, you don't need to follow the trend until you nailed the tech the same way you completely mastered Paperwhite, people LOVE the kindle because has the best screen of ANY eReader, but this really isn't it.Live chat offered me a replacement that should be arriving tomorrow, but based on all reviews, I'm not holding my breath on this, I'll update my review if anything changes but my gut is telling me to just get the best of the best and that's the Paperwhite Signature Edition. (I've added a picture of the PWSE it's the one on a light wood table and Mac, and you can tell how stunning that Kindle really is)

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.