Amazon Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition (newest gen) | With colour display, auto-adjusting front light, wireless charging and long battery life – 32GB

Its not often I am an early adopter of new technology but a coloured e-reader or Kindle has been something that has been on my own technology wish-list for several years. Finally this year through Kobo with its Clara and Libra Color (colour from here on out). I am well entrenched in the Amazon ecosystem and due to my vast library and pretty much positive experience I am happy to stay there too. I will say that prior to a colour reader from Amazon, the Kobo did catch my eye and I was almost going to get one but decided to wait. They look a fun device but for me it is missing the certain something and it looks not as premium or well made as a Kindle (no joke intended). Also I have searched for many books I own on Kindle on the Kobo store and not found them available so that was another mark against the Kobo. Then Amazon announced the Kindle Colorsoft and my dream came true… Then it came out and was what people feared it to be a rushed product that was blighted by issues since launching. Notably a yellow band across the screen and (something common to both Kobo and Kindle) dead pixels. Due to the backlash and negative feedback the device has been limited in availability and taken off shelves up until just before Christmas (typically when all presents have been decided and bought). I decided I deserved a New Years gift and it was in stock so on the 4th January I ordered it expecting it the 7th and to my surprise it arrived on the 5th and dear reader… She is beautiful! Is she perfect? No, but we can overlook all that. It was with baited breathe I waited for the delivery and opened it, having read reviews and posts and seeing other peoples experiences I was expecting at least a hint of yellow banding but to my surprise it is perfect. No yellowing or dead pixels at all. I have been using it for a few days now and I have to say I am pretty impressed with it so far. It is not perfect but it is a wonderful step into the World of Colour and e-readers. Price It is an expensive piece of kit? Worth it? That is subjective and for me yes it is worth it and I will enjoy using this device and get value from it and many years of use. I expect it to be another 2 or 3 years before a second coloured Kindle. Given the amount of issues with QC I would not keep a premium product at this price point unless it was 100% perfect. I wouldn’t settle if it was just a little yellow etc. Screen With the new technology going into this, it is going to look a little different to the previous models of Kindle, it is a completely new technology. The screen looks papery, not as crisp and clear as a normal Kindle but not too bad either. Looks a bit like thin tracing paper laid over the screen. Colour is where this shines and compared to Kobo it looks a lot more vivid and clear and less ghosting when zooming. The implementation of the technology has been superior in Kindle. The colours pop nicely and compared to the greyscale normal of the kindle the colours do make a difference. Contrast is where it is let down as it is very dark and renders the colours not too good especially the darker it is. I do prefer my brightness up. How the screen is affected by the sun I don’t know yet and haven’t tried (UK here!). Images are not glossy like a magazine, similar to a news paper, if you want vivid images read on a tablet with Kindle App. I did expect more from it and the lock screen, it is cool to see the cover and in colour but like all Kindles the lock screen isn’t backlit so you don’t really see the colour. If there are future devices I would love to see a wake function for the lock screen where the screen can brighten and show off the cover without opening the Kindle. Performance Excellent performance, feels more snappy and quicker. Not had any issues with anything especially once all the indexing was completed. No stuttering or ghosting encountered. Other I do have the Jade vegan case to go with the Kindle, my first Amazon case having only ever used third party cases and if feels good quality and well made. Certainly feels a premium product to go with the Colorsoft. A big negative is that with the generation of Kindles (possibly the last too) Amazon has done away with the “Download and Transfer” feature for the new models. Which means you can no longer download a copy of your purchased titles to transfer via USB. It still works for older models but not the new ones. Overall A great device and addition to the Kindle and e-reader family but a device that can be so much more. For the first one it is an admirable effort and hopefully can be built upon and do more with it. Imagine a Kindle Scribe Colour or a Kindle Oasis Colour? Would that be more making the Kindle a tablet and too similar to a Fire tablet? Where do you draw the line? For me some slight adjustments to this and you have a perfect reader. The same screen technology with the Scribe = perfect. Perhaps an illumination feature for the lock screen to show off the book covers. Perhaps too the long requested buttons? Could also have a toggle for Colour/B&W? So many possibilities. All in all a great product and certainly a base to build from

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 a landscape 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.

Un bellissimo Kindle, veloce e pratico. I colori danno una bella sensazione, specialmente se si leggono libri / riviste con disegni. Regolando la tonalità di l'illuminazione dello schermo (da caldo a freddo) si può ridurre l'affaticamento degli occhi nella lettura avendo un'esperienza è simile ai Kindle paperwhite, ma non è la stessa cosa, quindi può piacere come no. Per il resto lo trovo un ottimo book reader.

Świetny czytnik. Użytkujemy czytników Kindle od 15 lat. Nigdy nas nie zawiodły. Pierwszy raz będziemy mieli czytnik z kolorowym wyświetlaczem. Myślę, że będzie super - jak poprzednie.

I love it so far!

Coming from an old Kobo Clara HD device to Kindle, it was a bit of a leap. I decided on Kindle as arcs and indie authors are better supported. Otherwise the specs vs the high costs of the kindle didn't convince me to get it. With the discount, I settled on a kindle and overall I'm happy although I do not think it would be worth it's full price as the Kobo Libra offers more - for less. I like the screen and the colours are subtle but still nice enough and it's fairly easy to get your ereader set up. The screen is quite reflective and fingerprint sensitive, which I don't like. Options wise it's missing personalized settings such as for example the page turned spots on the screen; a wider variety of fonts, dark mode is not available (there is page colouring when you read but the menu stays white and the pictures also do not flip). The auto brightness does not work when you read your ebooks in black backgrounds. The battery is quite good so far but seems to drain quicker than my older Kobo (mind you it was around 8yrs old). I received my Kindle last thursday and 4 days later the battery is now at 70% using ecomode and low brightness. It's not possible to use your own audiofiles on the ereader, therefor I think with Kobo you would have more freedom in regards to that. Only Audible is available to Kindle so this is a limitation. The colour notes are nice, I wish we could also code what each colour means for those who really go wild with annotations. You can not actively write and list with the Kindle Colorsoft like you can with a Libra for example. Send to Kindle is a nice and easy feature. The signature edition gives you around 25Gb available space. I only have a couple of books on there and used around 600MB now leaving around 25Gb total to use. Something I liked with Kobo also is that you could include two reading update bars while reading where kindle only shows you one. I would like to see the time left in each chapter and also the total duration of the book at the same time (time and/or page total) to determine where Im at exactly and the chapter time is used to know where to end the reading as I try to finish chapters. So all in all, the device does offer a nice reading experience but I think specs/price way its too pricy and needs to offer more (personalized) features for it to be worth €300. Pro tip: get your hands on MoKo's magnetic detachable cases. It's a nice flipcase where you can remove the flip!

Editado abajo: Inicialmente 3 estrellas, después 5. Análisis inicial: Bien... Pero... No... Tengo varios lectores de libros digitales, de diversas marcas (kobo, boox, bigme,...), y doy mi opinión sincera. A favor * Sin duda puedo decir que el Kindle Colorsoft Signaturit Edition es el lector o tablet con e-ink kaleido 3 que mejor muestra el color. Repito, sin duda. * Es el primer lector de tinta a color kaleido 3 que tengo y que no tiene ni un solo pixel quemado o muerto. Eso me ha sorprendido gratamente. * Si tienes libros EPUB propios los puedes enviar a tu Colorsoft a través de un email... Y a los segundos aparece en tu lector. Es realmente cómodo. * No tiene apenas "ghosting" y eso es alucinante, con un paso de páginas rapidísimo. En contra * Comprado en noviembre de 2025 y se aprecia una muy ligera linea amarilla abajo. A mí no me molesta, pero para ser versión más actualizada ese fallo debería estar corregido antes de ser vendido. * Las opciones de personalización son mínimas... Tengo lectores de hace 10 años que permiten más tipos de letra, espaciado de líneas, más opciones de márgenes. * Mala compatibilidad. He comprado un par de comic en Amazon Kindle para leerlos en el Colorsoft y he tenido que devolverlos porque tenían, ambos, problemas de compatibilidad (no se lee el texto del comic)... Y lo peor es que es un comic que he comprado en el propio Kindle... Incomprensible. * No tiene acceso a E-Biblio. No poder sacar prestados libros de las bibliotecas es incomprensible para un producto que cuesta casi 300€. Esto le hace perder muchos puntos. En definitiva... ¿Si tuviera que elegir un lector digital elegiría el Kindle Colorsoft como primera opción? NO. Creo que hay opciones mejores y que permiten muchísima más personalización como el Boox Go Color 7 (II Gen) y que permiten hacer, también, muchas más cosas. De hecho con esas alternativas puedes seguir teniendo acceso a Kindle, Kobo e incluso E-Biblio. Y si, lo he dicho y lo repito, el Kindle Colorsoft es la mejor pantalla a color de e-ink kaleido 3 que tengo. Su modo "vivido" es una pasada y, además no tiene apenas "ghosting" Me lo quedo porque colecciono libros digitales y de cada uno saco algo, pero si quieres comprar un lector digital y no eres coleccionista como yo, creo que hay alternativas que dan mucha más opciónes de personalización, que, para mí, es imprescindible. EDITO unas semanas después y pongo 5 estrellas. Tengo que decir que estoy encantado. Es LA MEJOR PANTALLA Kaleido3 que tengo (y creedme que tengo unas cuantas). Para leer es, sin duda la más nítida, es un placer leer aquí, pero es que el modo color es avanzadisimo. Ni Boox ni Bigme pueden con esta saturación de color. Pero es que, además es rapidísimo y reacciona al instante a todo... Siento haber puesto la nota inicial. Creo que es el mejor lector que he tenido nunca, y aunque hay cosas que le faltan (altavoz, acceder al email, navegador, y otras cosas que tienen otros lectores) este es realmente el mejor. Sin duda. Si tienes dudas, hazme caso, no te arrepentirás de este modelo.