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It’s only five days until the release of the new Kindle Colorsoft, which is the first color
e-reader from the iconic brand. It will
retail for $279 if you want to buy it, but our indications suggest that it won’t be flying off the shelves. We ran a poll of
Android Authority readers asking if you’re likely to buy the Colorsoft, the results of which are below.
In fairness to Amazon, which owns the
Kindle brand, we put our thumb on the scale before asking the question. Writer and Kindle fan Dhruv Bhutani wrote a
well-reasoned article about why he won’t be looking to buy the Colorsoft just yet, and it was at the end of his piece that we ran the poll. He felt the device is lacking in useful new features, particularly note-taking and color-coded organization, which are available in competing e-readers like the Kobo Libra Color. The low-resolution color display (150ppi) was another concern for him, and he also criticized the removal of physical page-turn buttons, which he enjoys on the Kindle Oasis.
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