- Amazon has silently listed the Kindle Colorsooft Ereader in its Australian site
- Now it is available to buy for AU $ 399
- It is also sent to New Zealand for NZ $ 417, although it could incur the shipping charges
Originally launched in other important markets such as the United States and the United Kingdom in October 2024, Amazon has taken a long time to tear down the Kindle Colorsooft. Amazon Au site has been silently added and is available to buy immediately.
He reached the headlines abroad for being the only color Kindle that will be launched and, in our Kindle Colorsooft review, our tester was quite taken by him. I can understand why, particularly if you are already a Kindle user and subscribe to services such as Reading Prime or Kindle Unlimited.
The 7 -inch Ink Kaleido 3 inches becomes good to show book covers, manga and comics, according to our review, but I have not yet had the opportunity to see it for myself: I can not wait to see how it compares with its competition of the tastes of Kobo Libra color, the Kobo Clara Color and the ONYX Go Color 7 (I am currently trying the gen II also also).
Due to being the only color Kindle, Colorsooft is already one of the best Kindles to buy, now available at Amazon Au by AU $ 399. It will be sent through the trench to New Zealand for around AU $ 417 too.
That is not a bad price for a 7 -inch color Kindle, but I am not very convinced that it represents good value, particularly in Australia.
Colorame skeptical
I have been waiting anxiously for the Kindle Colorsooft to throw it in Australia, but now that I have seen its RRP, I am not sure that I buy it myself, here is why.
It is in direct competition with the two Kobo Ereaders. In design terms, Kobo Clara Color is the 6 -inch alternative that offers more or less the same characteristic as colorsoft, but for Au $ 269.95. Both use the same screen, although the Kobo is smaller, and both are waterproof with an IPX8 certification. They also share the same storage specification on board 16 GB.
However, in terms of size, and in terms of price, coloring is closer to the color Kobo Libra, which costs au $ 379.95 in Australia. This 7 -inch Kobo also uses the same screen technology, but comes with complete writing capabilities. You must buy the Kobo Stylus 2 separately, but that is a characteristic that color does not offer.
In addition, if you are usually holding your ereader in one hand, the pound color design, with your physical turn buttons, will be more ergonomic than the simple configuration of the Kindle tablet.
Then there is the difference in storage capabilities: the pound color comes twice the space at 32 GB. It also has Bluetooth support in the Kobos (all of them), which will not obtain in any current Kindle in Australia, so it cannot connect to its audible account to listen to audiobooks.
Maybe that is not a decisive factor for many readers, but you cannot borrow from a local library through a Kindle in Australia: you can use a Kobo Ereader if your library also uses the Overdrive platform.
However, to be fair, now that coloring is available locally, they are very likely to see greater discounts than the miserable ones that Kobo $ 20 offers on their devices. So, my advice if you really want the Kindle Colorsooft: wait for a great sale as the next primary day in October or the sale of Amazon Black Friday in November.
