Amazon - Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition (32 GB) – With color display, wireless charging, and long battery life - 2024 - Metallic Black

I’ll start with the positives. It’s the first kindle with color and it’s the fastest kindle made… however… make sure to manage expectations about ANY color ebook reader for the fact that they will be less clear/grainy due to the color filter. My eyes are sensitive to resolutions and clarity on tv’s computer monitors, etc, so it’s something that definitely doesn’t look as appealing to me. From a normal reading distance though, it’s not too bad. Compared to the traditional black and white kindle paper white, the overall brightness of the colorsoft is lower because of the added color layer and the overall hue is more blue. It feels closer to a dim LCD screen in certain brightness settings. If you primarily read black and white text, stick with the paperwhite. The color covers are nice to see, but the rest of the tradeoffs aren’t worth it. For the biggest negative that’s all over the news right now… I’ve tried two different colorsofts and both have had the infamous yellow banding issue at the bottom and sides of the display.

I absolutely LOVE IT. Some people complain about the yellow line at the bottom but it doesn’t bother me honestly.

So instead of doing the trade on Amazon I decided to sell my 11th gen PW SE with hopes of becoming an iPad mini 7 girlie. Well that was so nice reading on my new mini but I missed the form factor of a kindle, waterproof and having a distraction free device so I decided to get the 12th gen PW SE after a big price mislabeling and rewards I broke even after buying a case for it so no love or money lost. Welllll I was having FOMO like why did I settle when I knew I wanted the colorsoft. So what did I do place an order at Best Buy to compare the two and let me just say I returned the colorsoft after literally 1 hr of testing it out. I did not think it was terrible grain since I wear glasses, set the bold to max and read at a 12pt font but putting the two side by side I knew I made the right decision by getting the 12th edition. The 2 main things that the colorsoft failed on were the darkness of the screen and the death yellow bar on the bottom and side/s. I would wait guys or get a iPad mini or kindle fire with matte screen protector to read in color. I did quickly realize that I do enjoy reading on the mini if I want color so until Amazon fixes this my 12th gen PW SE and mini 7 are perfect. I read that it could be a adhesive issue which is a hardware not software fix and I am upset that Amazon has not addressed and pulled this entirely and went back to the drawing board. They see that kindle lovers couldn’t wait for this but they should have had better QCers and randomly sent these to customers to review vs influencers. Unless it’s sent to me or given/bought for me I wouldn’t buy the colorsoft.