Amazon’s Kindle is decisively the most popular e-reader brand, allowing the e-commerce giant to take its time bringing a device with a colour screen to market.

And yet, though the Kindle Colorsoft is great for comics and adds an appreciated pop to book covers, it feels like a first draft of what the product should ultimately become.

If you’ve seen a recent Kindle Paperwhite, you’ll know more or less what to expect from the Colorsoft, as it looks and feels practically identical. That means there’s a seven-inch touchscreen that sits flush with the device’s black plastic bezels, no page-turn buttons, an adjustable backlight that can also add an orange tinge for reading at night, and IPX8 waterproofing so you can read safely in the bath.

But you’ll notice the key difference between the two

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