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Planning to relax by the pool or on the beach with a good book? Amazon’s latest sale has dropped the price on its Kindle Colorsoft, making it now a great time to upgrade before your next holiday.
You can save up to £65 on the colourful e-reader, dropping the price from £239 to £174. Plus, if you trade in your old Kindle, you can receive an additional 20% off your purchase, making a reading upgrade even more affordable.
The Kindle Colorsoft delivers all the features you've come to expect from Kindle, but enhanced with a colour e-ink screen. That means you can browse book covers in vibrant colour within your library and experience the full visual impact of graphic novels and illustrated content. It should offer an enhanced, vibrant experience for your favourite stories.
Send in your old Kindle back to Amazon and unlock an additional 20% off
When you send in your old Kindle to Amazon, you can unlock an additional 20% off the Colorsoft. Escape into your books in colour without the social media distractions, notifications, or other distracting apps. The glare-free display and auto-adjusting front light let you read in the brightest sunlight or late into the night, no matter your location. You can also highlight passages in varying colours to help you keep track.
If you need even more storage, the Kindle Colorsoft 32GB is also on sale for up to 44% off.
Kindle Colorsoft (16GB)
$239.99
$127.19
For those who prefer dark mode, the Page Color feature inverts the traditional black text on a white background. This can be beneficial if your eyes are sensitive to brighter lights.
And for the first time, you can now switch your entire device interface to Dark Mode, including your Home screen, Library, and Settings.
Dark mode on an e-reader can improve your reading comfort by inverting the screen to white text on a black background, which can significantly reduce eye strain during night reading. It's also handy if you want to reduce blue light exposure, which often occurs when reading from your phone or PC.
This feature has been available on Amazon's other e-readers, like the Paperwhite, for the last five years, so it's interesting to see it just now arrive on the colourful models.
The Kindle Colorsoft and Scribe Colorsoft are finally getting the Dark Mode feature — letting you read books, articles, and other content with a dark background and light text
| AMAZON PRESS OFFICEThese newer Kindle models also offer rapid page transitions, an adjustable warm light for comfortable reading, and battery life measured in weeks rather than days. This means you won't have to lug around an extra charger while on holiday.
Kindle Colorsoft has a waterproof design, so you can read worry-free in the pool or bath without the need for a case. And if you drop the Kindle Colorsoft into the sand after a long day of reading on the beach, or accidentally spill a drink over this compact 7-inch e-reader, you can simply rinse it off.
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For avid notetakers, you can highlight passages in four different colours - yellow, orange, blue, and pink - and filter these annotations later for easy reference.
You'll be able to purchase the 16GB Kindle Colorsoft, bundled with a three-month Kindle Unlimited subscription.
Kindle Unlimited is a monthly subscription where you can borrow and read as many titles as you want from the Kindle Unlimited catalogue, without due dates.
You can benefit from the colour e-reader when you read graphic novels, cookbooks, magazines, and more
| AMAZON PRESS OFFICEHow to trade in your older Kindle
If you're looking to dip into even more savings, follow these steps to trade in your older device:
- Choose an eligible Kindle associated with your Amazon account or search for other device(s), even if bought elsewhere.
- Answer a few questions about the condition of your device(s) to receive a trade-in quote. Even non-working devices are eligible.
- Print a shipping label and send your device(s) for free - Amazon will verify the condition within 3 days after receipt.
- Once your trade-in is complete, an Amazon gift card equal to the appraised value of your old device(s), plus the 20% discount towards any new qualifying Kindle E-reader, will be automatically applied to your account.