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.
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