The Kindle Colorsoft is back on sale for $50 off

Here's different accidental to get a discount connected Amazon's archetypal ereader with a colour display. The Kindle Colorsoft has dropped backmost down to $230. That's $50, oregon 18 percent, off. The woody brings the Kindle Colorsoft backmost down to a grounds debased price.

We saw the Kindle Colorsoft hit $230 for the archetypal clip successful January. However, that discount was lone disposable to Prime subscribers. There's nary specified regularisation this clip around, arsenic you don't request a rank to instrumentality vantage of this deal.

There's 1 further perk here: the Colorsoft comes with 3 escaped months of entree to Kindle Unlimited. As such, you'll person entree to much than 4 cardinal ebooks during that time. After the escaped entree play is over, your Kindle Unlimited entree volition automatically renew. The work costs $12 per month, truthful beryllium definite to cancel earlier your three-month freebie expires if you don't privation to wage for it.

A fig of aboriginal Kindle Colorsofts, including our archetypal reappraisal unit, developed a yellowish barroom crossed the bottom. However, Amazon said it was resolving the issue, and it offered refunds and replacements to those affected. Although we haven't encountered the occupation connected our replacement, we person removed the people from our review until we've tested the ereader for a longer play of clip and made definite the contented doesn't re-occur.

That said, we admit the speedy load times and leafage turns of the Kindle Colorsoft. The auto-adjusting beforehand airy is simply a plus, portion it was precise invited to spot that, by default, this exemplary does not person ads connected the fastener screen. A pinch-to-zoom diagnostic is besides handy, particularly erstwhile it comes to speechmaking graphic novels.

The ereader has 32GB of built-in retention and it supports Audible audiobooks. It should tally for up to value weeks connected a azygous charge. You tin recharge the artillery wirelessly oregon via USB-C.

The large selling constituent is, of course, the colour screen. The Colorsoft has a seven-inch show with a 300 pixel-per-inch (ppi) density for black-and-white worldly and 150 ppi for colour content.

Last but not least, the ereader has an IPX8 rating, meaning it tin withstand immersion successful up to 2 meters of freshwater for up to 60 minutes and 0.25 meters of seawater for 3 minutes, per Amazon. As such, you won't person to interest excessively overmuch astir getting the Colorsoft bedewed erstwhile you instrumentality it to the excavation oregon beach.

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