Amazon Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition 32GB (newest model) – With color display, auto-adjusting front light, wireless charging, and long battery life - Metallic BlackRecycled Content Certification for Electrical and Electronic Equipment

This ended up being my very first e-reader so I cannot compare it to anything. I spent most of my summer wishing I had a book in my hand while I was at the pool and when a family trip to the local water park was planned around the same time the Amazon Prime Day special was about to launch, I decided to pull the trigger on buying an e-reader. My Colorsoft arrived the day before an outing to Cedar Point Shores, the waterpark attached to Cedar Point. I put my Colorsoft through the works the day we went to the waterpark. I spent several hours in their version of a lazy river that had an unavoidable waterfall. I took it into the wavepool a couple of times. It was never dropped into the water, but it was drenched many many times. I'd like to say that I thoroughly put my kindle colorsoft through the water works and it came out working perfectly fine.I specifically went with a Colorsoft because I occasionally like to read graphic novels, comics, and mangas. The quality is okay. The colors are more pronounced when I have the brightness all the way up, but I find that I'm still able to enjoy the colors on the lower brightness settings. I typically keep my brightness setting in the lower single digits, with 7 or 8 being the sweet spot unless I'm in full sunlight. I will say that even though I made my purchase with those things in mind, I haven't used it very many times for said reads.I tried to capture the faint yellowing at the bottom of my screen. I don't know if this is a defect or has something to do with the screen lighting placement. The faint yellowing at the bottom of my screen is only noticeable when I have the brightness set all the way up and I cannot seem to capture it in photo the way other people have been able to. I have zero intentions of exchanging it in hopes of getting one that doesn't have the faint yellowing because it seems like people who do usually end up with one that has it worse off than before. It isn't enough to dock it down to 4 stars for me because most of the time I don't even realize it's there. I only notice that it's there when I'm looking for it.Definitely an improvement from reading books on my tablet :)Photos are of what I typically keep my brightness at, to the brightest setting. I don't have a colorful comic to use as an example, so my digital copy of The Sandman Vol 1 will have to do.

2nd UPDATE (March 12, 2025): The 2024 Kindle Paperwhite that I purchased to replace my yellowed Kindle Colorsoft in November arrived with EVEN WORSE YELLOWING. I could NOT believe it. So instead, I sent THAT Kindle back, and requested Amazon send a replacement Kindle Colorsoft instead. The replacement Colorsoft arrived in December and I sent back my original, yellowed Colorsoft. Then over the past three months, that replacement Colorsoft BEGAN YELLOWING TOO. It's ABSOLUTELY clear Amazon did not change their production process. No matter what 2024 Kindle device you buy, its display will eventually turn yellow due to the faulty display adhesive they switched to in 2024. DON'T BOTHER. Just DON'T BOTHER. If I could give my Kindle Colorsoft--for which I'll never get my money back--ZERO STARS, I would. Same with the 2024 Paperwhite. I just use my iPad now to read Kindle books. But I will NEVER, EVER buy another Kindle device. Neither should you.____UPDATE: After 10 days of owning my new Kindle ColorSoft, I changed my 5-star review to a 1-star review. My original review is below, and all of it still stands. But the weird, prominent yellow bar across the bottom of the display--almost like someone wrote across the display with a yellow hi-liter, is a real thing. The only way not to see it, or be distracted by it, is to pump your display warmth up so that the yellow from the warmth blends in with the bottom stripe.It's ridiculous that Amazon went to market with this display flaw. Were they hoping no one would notice? Now reviewers are saying there won't even be a hardware fix--there may instead be a "software fix". Which means either making your whole display yellow or putting a black bar across the bottom of the screen. Either way, hard nope.If you request a call from Amazon Product Services, you have options to return or exchange your dingy Colorsoft.If you return it, you'll wait 2 to 4 weeks for your funds to be processed back to you.If you exchange it, you can only do so for a new, hopefully corrected Colorsoft, and they're not shipping for "3 to 5 weeks". Until then, you get to keep on using your faulty one.If you want to exchange for a different new Kindle model, Amazon will NOT process that for you in one transaction. Instead, you have to initiate a return--triggering that 2 to 4 week wait for your refund--and purchase a different new Kindle SEPARATELY. Which means, until your refund arrives, you're essentially lending Amazon your money for a month for free.Making things EVEN MORE complicated, if you used your old Kindle for trade-in value, Amazon WILL NOT give you that value back, giving you zero options for a clean return. The Product Services representative will, however, give you a 20% discount code to purchase a new Kindle. But you still have to do the return and new purchase separately. (And wait that month for Amazon to give you back your original purchase price.)All in all, the handling of this complete launch misfire has been unacceptably customer-unfriendly. Amazon could make it SO MUCH EASIER for the people who placed advanced orders, traded in their old Kindles, and early adopted the Colorsoft to get their money back and get new devices. You would think they'd want to do that after all the hard promotion the Kindle management team did with tech media and influencers in mid-October.Instead, the nearly complete lack of proactive customer service for what is Amazon's 100% own goal and no one else's fault has turned their product ambassadors into naysayers. That's a lot of marketing money thrown in the toilet.I decided to return my Colorsoft, and use the 20% discount code to order a new Paperwhite. Amazon charged me A DOLLAR to send me a shipping label, and I have to BUY MY OWN BOX at UPS. (At this point, are you surprised?Whatever you do, DO NOT BUY THIS DEVICE. This launch has been an unmitigated disaster. If I want color book covers, I'll use the Kindle app on my iPad. You should, too.____ORIGINAL REVIEW: Like reading a newspaper with full-color photos. Not tablet-like photos, not meant to be. Absolutely joyful. A breath of fresh air to be able to easily browse the covers in your library, your wish list, and the Kindle Store. The Vivid mode makes the colors pop better. Auto-brightness and scheduled warmth make the device less fiddly.The alleged fuzzy look of reading B&W text due to the color layer is a nothing burger—the layer is barely noticeable at all. The layer allegedly making things darker is also mildly ridiculous. That’s what your brightness control is for—including when auto-brightness is on. Just choose your preferences once and you’re all set. And does anyone really care the battery now lasts for two MONTHS instead of three?Unless you were an Oasis owner, this will be the best Kindle you’ve ever owned. Take advantage of current generous trade-in offers and treat yourself.