When Amazon released the Kindle Colorsoft, I was really surprised they priced it so high at $279. Kobo had just released the Kobo Libra Colour a few months earlier with the same 7″ color E Ink screen, and Kobo priced it at a reasonable $219. Even Onyx’s Go Color 7 is cheaper than the Kindle […]
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Kindle Colorsoft Review Ratings Slowly Going Up
The first few weeks after Amazon released the Kindle Colorsoft, a bunch of negative reviews were posted on Amazon’s website, with a lot of 1-star reviews because of the frontlight issue and a general lack of quality control. The overall rating for the Kindle Colorsoft was way lower than any other Kindle that’s ever been […]
Kindle Colorsoft On Sale for First Time, But There’s a Catch
Amazon has finally put the Kindle Colorsoft on sale for the first time since it was released last October—it’s the last new Kindle to go on sale—but it’s one of those deals that’s exclusively for Amazon Prime members. If you have an active Prime membership you can get the Kindle Colorsoft for $229 right now […]
My Kindle Voyage Mysteriously Turned Ad-Free
I haven’t been using my Kindle Voyage much lately since the Kindle Paperwhite 6 came along, but I decided to fire it up yesterday to charge it and I noticed something odd. The screensaver ads have mysteriously disappeared. It’s now showing a generic screensaver instead of an advertisement like ad-free Kindles. Furthermore, the banner ad […]
Kindles Do Support Sideloading Library eBooks (Except New Models)
There seems to be a common misconception about how Kindles work with ebooks borrowed from public libraries through OverDrive/Libby. Between Amazon randomly deleting USB sideloaded content and people trying to avoid getting automatic software updates that potentialy break things, especailly after jailbreaking their Kindle, some people feel like they’re asking for trouble by leaving their […]
What’s the Best Kindle to Buy in 2025?
People looking to get a new Kindle often get confused by Amazon’s selection of different Kindle models and sub-models, and the question of which is the best one to get comes up frequently, so I thought I’d do my best to answer that in this post. First off, the “best” Kindle isn’t going to be […]
Has Amazon Really Fixed the Kindle Colorsoft’s Screen Issue?
Right after Amazon released the Kindle Colorsoft, people started reporting an issue with a weird yellow band at the bottom of the screen caused by the frontlight. Amazon acknowledged the problem and promised to fix it, but have they really done anything about it? Amazon still has the “We Want You To Know” disclaimer on […]
Download and Transfer Option for Kindle eBooks Not Working
I’ve started seeing some reports of the Kindle’s download and transfer via USB feature not working at Amazon, so I tested it myself and the reports are indeed accurate—it’s currently not possible to download purchased ebooks from Amazon using the download and transfer option from the Content section of their website. When you try to […]