Colour isn’t important in an e-reader, however let’s be sincere, it’s a pleasant perk that may carry digital books, magazines, comics, cookbooks, and different publications to life. The catch is that colour e-book readers are typically considerably pricier, which makes right now’s offers stand out. Proper now, the Kindle Colorsoft (16GB) and Kobo Libra Color are matching their lowest costs thus far, with the Amazon e-reader going for $169.99 ($80 off) at Amazon and Finest Purchase, and the Libra Color going for $199.99 ($30 off) through Rakuten’s on-line storefront.
At their core, each are glorious e-readers with 7-inch, 300ppi E Ink shows, which drop to 150ppi when viewing colour. The Colorsoft’s show is barely extra vibrant in most cases, however the distinction isn’t dramatic. Every additionally gives IPX8 water resistance, so that you don’t want to fret about spills and might comfortably learn within the tub or by the pool.
Which one makes extra sense for you largely depends upon the place you purchase your books, how a lot storage you want, and whether or not you wish to take notes. The Colorsoft is nice if you happen to’re closely embedded in Amazon’s ecosystem, as shopping for and accessing Kindle books is intuitive and doesn’t require any sideloading. Because the extra reasonably priced possibility in Amazon’s lineup, the usual Colorsoft delivers a virtually an identical studying expertise to the Signature Version, and it helps Amazon’s “Ship to Alexa Plus” characteristic, which helps you to ship notes or paperwork to Amazon’s AI-powered assistant for summaries, to-do lists, reminders, and extra. The draw back is that it lacks wi-fi charging and an auto-adjusting entrance mild — that are customary on the step-up mannequin — and comes with 16GB of storage as an alternative of 32GB.
That mentioned, if I didn’t already personal so many Kindle books, the Libra Color could be my choose. It gives double the storage at 32GB and contains intuitive bodily page-turn buttons. You too can write notes whereas studying, provided that it gives stylus help, and it contains built-in pocket book templates, in addition to the flexibility to transform handwriting to typed textual content. It additionally helps EPUB and a wider vary of file codecs, and allows you to save articles for offline studying with Instapaper. And it additionally gives adjustable heat lighting, which makes studying at evening a bit simpler on the eyes.
