Color Me Impressed? Kindle Colorsoft REVIEW

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After years of sticking to the classic Kindle formula with its black-and-white simplicity, the Kindle Colorsoft finally brings color to the Kindle reading experience. Amazon promises it has everything people love about Kindles: crisp, high-contrast text, weeks of battery life, and a glare-free display.

Now, with color, it’s meant to make book covers, highlights, annotations, graphs and images more engaging without breaking that immersive reading experience.

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I'm Chalid, and I've been a fan of e-ink technology for a very long time. I've been reviewing e-ink devices since 2010. After more than 100 different e-reader tests for my German website, this channel is dedicated to sharing my experiences with the latest e-readers, other e-paper devices, and sometimes other tech in English as well.

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*In case you’re wondering about the yellow tinge at the bottom edge of the screen I mentioned in the video: Amazon reached out to let me know they’re aware of the issue and are working on a fix. They haven’t provided a timeline, but I expect they’ll try to resolve it before the end of the holiday season. While it’s disappointing to see an issue like this in a new release, I’m glad they’re addressing it quickly rather than leaving us with a ‘You’re holding it wrong’ response like we’ve seen from certain other companies in the past. But let’s see if Amazon can deliver on the fix. I’ll keep you posted if I hear anything new.*

ChalidRaqami
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I appreciate how you gave your conclusion at the beginning, if that's all someone was wanting to know.

jayvansickle
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My friend, your reviews just get better and better. Thanks for your perspectives on the new Kindle Colorsoft. I am better informed as a potential consumer.

deadiemeyers
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PDFs over USB not having color is absolutely crazy. Amazon needs to stop trying to force people to send their private documents unencrypted through Amazon’s cloud service!

coder
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Your reviews are excellent. Thorough without being too technical that it becomes inaccessible. I appreciate the upfront conclusions!

SteamyPMcGee
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7:04 slight correction. Kobo has a devmode where you can choose different color modes

Netjerett
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First actual hands-on review and comparison of the Kindle Colorsoft! I have the Kobo Libra Colour and I can see the improvement. I'm a big colour-coding annotator with a huge Kindle library, so I can't wait for my Colorsoft to be delivered now!

esthereley
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That transition from a BW to Color screen in the very beginning was really good. One of the best I've seen of this type of thing.

mellangatang
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This was an EXCELLENT review! Very concise and well done. Love the comparison with the color e-readers from other brands.

LMHB
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Thank you for showing how it looks in guided view! It was helpful to see the refresh in action as it goes panel by panel.

thecozyarchivist
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This is a very good review. Mine is on the way, so I am even more excited now. Cheers!

wizzle-
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It seems that the Pocketbook inkpad color 3 is still the most saturated. The extra 0.8 inches is also supposed to help read comics and graphic novels due to a larger font size. Therefore, I would like to see the complete comparison between the two taking into account ghosting, page turning speed, color saturation, and readability.

alexanderbolanos
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1. That was a Sweet transition at the beginning of the video.
2. I had no idea there were Lower Decks comics

jayvansickle
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Thank you for such a thorough review. I found your detailed comparisons to other device’s implementation of Kaleido technology to be very insightful. It’s this comparison that helps to highlight ‘how’ Amazon actually has done better with this same screen technology.

I was at first moderately displeased with the darker screen (when compared to my 11th Gen Paperwhite), but your explanation of how Kaleido works helped me to reconcile this. I am now very happy with my purchase. I do have the yellowing issue at the bottom of my screen and have contacted Amazon - they will be sending a replacement when available.

Thank you again for your review.

theiphonejunkie
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I love this channel. You do such a great job balancing a TL;DR version with a comprehensive review. Thank you!

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Looks like they made a decent color ereader even with all the expected drawbacks. The pocketbook reader did look the best out of all of them in the comparison section though. Which makes sense since they've been doing color ereaders longer than anyone else as far as I remember.

pspsmallz
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Kobo does offer different color options through the developer mode. There are about 5 different options to toggle through.

twobabyboyz
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Thank you for being so quick to give out an in-depth review! Top speed and quality!

lili-jvjs
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Thanks for the review - you seem to be the only one to comment on the darkness of the screen without backlight. A paperwhite-type backlight-less screen is the only reason I'd move from the Kobo Libre Color so this was really helpful.

mikeinashed
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Trust you to have the deep dive right away! Excited to see your more detailed comparison, especially at different frontlight levels since I hate bringing mine up too much. I'm curious to see if they managed to get the whites "whiter" at lower levels or if they're about the same.

Have you tried some of the developer option settings of the Libra Color to try to bring them closer together in look?

Editing to add: no color for sideloaded documents, classic Amazon moves

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