Amazon admits its color Kindles aren’t the best option for bookworms

• Amazon updated its Kindle Colorsoft FAQs with a candid disclaimer. • The company says that black-and-white Kindles, like the Paperwhite, offer crisper text. • Colorsoft screens still suit comics and PDFs, but trade sharpness for color.

Color E-Ink might be all the rage these days thanks to the Kindle Colorsoft lineup, but even Amazon is admitting there’s a trade-off. The company has updated its product FAQs to note that while its Colorsoft screens deliver a “high-quality reading and writing experience,” the black-and-white Kindles, such as the Paperwhite and Scribe, still offer slightly crisper text.

As spotted by Good e-Reader, Amazon added near-identical wording to the FAQ pages for both the new Kindle Scribe Colorsoft and the cheaper 16GB Colorsoft model. The company explains th