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32GB Amazon Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition (Metallic Black) on sale for
$229.99.
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About this Item:
- Read in color – The new 7" Colorsoft display is high-contrast and easy on the eyes, with paper-like color that brings covers and content to life.
- Color your pages – Highlight your favorite scenes in yellow, orange, blue, and pink.
- Marathon reading – A single charge via USB-C lasts up to 8 weeks, or power up with the wireless charging dock (sold separately).
- Adapts to your surroundings – The glare-free display and auto-adjusting front light let you read in the brightest sunlight or late into the night.
- Waterproof and worry-free – Take your stories by the pool, in the bath, or anywhere in between.
- Massive selection – Instantly access over 15 million titles in the Kindle Store worldwide, and add a Kindle Unlimited subscription for all-you-can read access to a catalog including best sellers.
- A brand-new experience – The Kindle Colorsoft display is optimized for reading in color and is different from the Kindle Paperwhite display, which is optimized for black and white reading.
- Try the Page Color feature to invert the black text and white background of pages inside books. While different than Dark Mode, it enables comfortable reading while still displaying colorful images and covers.
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But having said that, this is a huge hit or miss depending on the kind of unit one gets. A yellowish tint is a major issue reported and I got the same with my unit last time. Ended up returning it rather than replacement. Based on reviews on Amazon, there are users with up to 5 units being replaced because of the same issue and finally returning. A lot of potential hassle and time expense. Again, YMMV
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I still think it's a good product but I'll not pay full price for something with a defect, especially since the next version will not have this defect and will probably cost less if they can get a color screen at 300ppi thus not needing two screens, one on top of another.
I still think it's a good product but I'll not pay full price for something with a defect, especially since the next version will not have this defect and will probably cost less if they can get a color screen at 300ppi thus not needing two screens, one on top of another.
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This is why the screen for b/w is less sharp because there is a second screen on top of it.
The only reason they do this now is because they cannot produce a 300ppi color kindle screen and they know that people would not accept a downgrade from the now standard 300ppi back to 150ppi.
Once they are able to technically produce a color 300ppi screen there will be no reason for having two screens. I'll wait for the 300ppi color screen.
This is why the screen for b/w is less sharp because there is a second screen on top of it.
The only reason they do this now is because they cannot produce a 300ppi color kindle screen and they know that people would not accept a downgrade from the now standard 300ppi back to 150ppi.
Once they are able to technically produce a color 300ppi screen there will be no reason for having two screens. I'll wait for the 300ppi color screen.
To give way too much technical information, a screen is a backlight, a color filter, and a way to block or open up the light to pass through. E ink floats black or white inks to the top. For LCDs that is a color filter with some white light source from behind. This technology treats the white particles as the backlight (reflected ambient light) and has a color filter but can only block light via the dark eink capsules.That they managed to get 150PPI RGB out of this is pretty awesome.