Get the lowest price ever on Amazons newest Kindle during the Spring Sale
As an avid reader (and e-reader tester!), I never leave home without an e-reader, and since October, I’ve been throwing the Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition into my bag more often than any of the other models I’ve tested.Amazon dropped its first Kindle model with a full color screen in October, and today, you can get it at its lowest price ever during the Amazon Big Spring Sale (which runs through midnight PST on March 31).
At 20% off, you’ll snag this first-of-its-kind product for $224.99, down from $279.99.You might be thinking, that’s still pretty expensive, right? Let me tell you why the Kindle Colorsoft is 100% worth it, especially right now.
The Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition is essentially a Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition, just in color.It has the same matte, anti-glare screen, wireless charging capabilities, weeks of battery life (I can count the times I’ve charged mine on one hand), and brightness settings.
Right now, the Colorsoft is only $25 more than the Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition — it just makes sense to spend a little more to open a whole new world of reading.In the image above, you’ll see two of the ways having a Kindle with a color screen has completely changed and enhanced the experience of using an e-reader.
I read a lot of nonfiction about Hollywood, and I’ve found being able to highlight text in multiple (up to four) colors has been so helpful when sorting through them later; I highlight text passages and meaningful quotes in one color, and use another to mark any movie title mentioned in a book so I can go back and make a more cohesive list when I’ve finished the book.The image on the right is an example of what a comic book or graphic novel page looks like on the Kindle Colorsoft screen.
It looks small, considering the screen itself isn’t as big as, say, a tablet, but double tapping on any panel will activate a zoom mode that lets you see the individual panels with more detail.As a Comixology Unlim...