Would You Buy a Color Kindle if it Was Like This?

This video shows the new PocketBook InkPad Color 2 with a 7.8" color E Ink screen compared to the Kindle Paperwhite 5 with a regular 6.8" black and white E Ink screen.

How many people would be interested in a color Kindle if Amazon came out with something like the InkPad Color 2?

[aymunsalman]

Absolutely. Especially for textbooks about artwork. You absolutely have to be able to see the colors of a painting if you're studying about it.

[pe]

have always loved the promise of a colour e-ink device, so have been keeping an eye on the tech over the years, but the underlying weakness of the separate colour layer affecting the purity of blacks (and general saturation) still seems like a deal breaker to me.

as much as colour support on e-ink is a nice-to-have, if i needed to read in colour, i’d just pick a conventional lcd tablet, and then keep my paperwhite around for the basic, word-heavy/eye-soothing feels.

i doubt amazon would hop into the colour realm for the same reason, so i expect that still won’t be resolved for a few years yet.

[_MiKi_]

Kindle scribe with color is my dream...

[harkiratbedi]

Yes I would. Price would be the decisive factor for the utility

[HerfingPug]

A good question. The Kindle’s definitely need an upgrade, whether that be be software or hardware, they are looking quite dated. I love the idea of colour eInk but the technology, although improving, is still not quite there.

[izaiahflores]

Big comic book fan I’ll for sure buy this but I don’t know which ones the best color little tablet thing

[Lukasz]

I would buy a color Kindle but it must have 300 ppi in color mode. It also needs to have faster screen refresh - perhaps using LTPO with color eink would solve that or custom Amazon SoC. Kindle ereaders are perhaps too niche to develop a custom SoC with 2 milliseconds faster refresh rate. I would accept the limited amounts of color and color shift. Color ReMarkable would be so cool for note taking - but the refresh rate is too slow at least for now.

[nolongerhavetowork]

Hi when are they bringing out the colour version for Amazon Kindle.

[xplaintome]

I will buy one if they release COLOR.. Will be very useful to sketch and label etc.

[anthonytt]

The appeal for a kindle was the light weight and long battery. But if losing color is where I'm conflicted cuz I also read comics.

[cbblackard]

I'm not interested in color if it causes the lagging response time I'm seeing in your video. The Scribe is the first E Ink device I have owned that I felt had an acceptable response time.

[rickriffel]

It seems the best color eink available is Kaleido 3 laid over Carta 1200. A better eink was promised, Gallery 3, but it is stuck in development purgatory. I would settle for Kaleido 3, and I would be pleased with a color Kindle Scribe.

[-chris-]

Do they have the colour content for it, though? In theory, the Scribe is perfect for textbooks, and yet many Kindle textbooks are available for download on any Kindle model except for the Scribe.

[wanderson]

Please, make a comparison between Onyx Boox Tab Ultra C and Pocketbook Inkapad Color 2. It would be interesting to see the color display differences of both devices.

[Darkrift]

Micro SD card expansion on the pocket book?

[eis]

Hi! sorry I didn't get it -- is it possible as an author to publish a colour paged KINDLE with amazon direct publishing?

[KegRaider]

Kindle doesn't have text to speech??!! My old Kindle 3 (keyboard edition) does text to speech fine. When did the bean-counters remove that feature? I'm looking to update my ageing beast, but crikey, who want less features for more cost nowadays?

[Strravigor]

pocketbook is sluggy and buggy ( particularly when you want to select or subline, , or set gesture, and sometime it reboot ) .We have to wait for a better UI ! that's a pity because it wood be a very good device if they solve that

I just re buy it in December. It s a really nice device, and Ijust easily install’ed ko reader on it and it works great ! So I am happy with it
But it s a little heavy

[VorkKnightOfGood]

Kindle? No. Kobo? Sure. I'm considering a colour ereader to complement my Kobo Sage.

[steverolfeca]

Let's not forget- Kindle performs better BECAUSE it isn't colour. Thinner panel, simpler construction and software development, not as CPU-intensive. Amazon consistently undercuts the competition by producing simple, well-made devices, and by selling at a loss to lock customers into their content. Not sure that bleeding-edge technology is their thing...