The Kindle Colorsoft isn’t the Paperwhite upgrade I expected
The Kindle Colorsoft showed up under my tree this past holiday season, and I was thrilled. Finally, I thought, I could read comics and graphic novels on their own dedicated screen instead of pulling out a tablet for it. It didn’t work out that way. A few weeks in, I’d stopped reaching for it. The color I was promised looked flat, the text ran small, and my eyes paid the price. I keep a few older Kindles in rotation around the house, so I know what a good one feels like in daily use. The Colorsoft is a good one. It just isn’t the leap over my Paperwhite that I pictured. The comics experience fell apart fast Small text and clumsy zoom wore me down Comics were the entire reason I wanted a color screen. The trouble starts with the 7-inch display. A full page shrinks to fit, and the text inside each speech balloon gets too small to read at a glance. Color renders at only 150 pixels per inch, half of what the …





