Amazon Just Released The First Full-color Kindle For The Youngest Readers

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My older kids each person a Kindle they usage to publication each nighttime earlier bed, and it's nan cleanable e-reader for young readers acknowledgment to beardown parental controls and easy personification interface. Now, Amazon is adding colour to nan Kindle Kids lineup pinch a caller Kindle Colorsoft created exclusively for children.

The first-ever colour Kindle for kids is simply a 16GB Kindle Colorsoft built to supply young readers a much enriching experience. The instrumentality brings a colour E Ink show to nan Amazon Kids+ and Kindle experience, which offers children a distraction-free reference situation free from notifications, ads, societal media, aliases messaging. 

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My eight-year-old loves reference novels connected her Kindle and, conscionable past week, averaged astir 2 hours of reference per day, which is awesome for summertime break. My six-year-old conscionable learned to publication a twelvemonth agone and she still prefers schematic novels and image books, truthful she often prefers beingness books complete her Kindle erstwhile she wants to, arsenic she puts it, "see pictures pinch color."

A Kindle Colorsoft Kids is cleanable not only for this type of young reader, but besides for older kids who simply for illustration schematic novels and comic books complete accepted novels. 

One of nan fewer drawbacks to my six-year-old preferring beingness books complete her Kindle is that, if she brings a image book pinch her erstwhile we spell out, she's retired of luck erstwhile she's done reading, wherever a Kindle lets you instantly download nan adjacent book. Of course, there's besides nan truth that a backlit Kindle is overmuch easier to publication successful nan acheronian earlier bed, and doesn't require a reference light. 

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The Kindle Colorsoft Kids is now disposable for $250, and is disposable pinch a prime of 2 covers, Fantasy River and Starlight Reading. It has 16GB of retention and includes 1 twelvemonth of an Amazon Kids+ subscription, which includes thousands of books and audiobooks. It besides has a two-year worry-free guarantee that ensures Amazon replaces your Kindle if nan surface breaks aliases you person different issues pinch it. 

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Kids tin besides usage Bluetooth headphones to perceive to audiobooks connected their Kindle Colorsoft Kids, and readers pinch dyslexia tin besides usage it pinch nan OpenDyslexic font. 

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The Signature Edition Kindle Colorsoft launched past autumn arsenic nan first Kindle successful colour for readers. At $280, it was met pinch mixed reception from first users, but reviews person since leveled to nan affirmative side. As a colour E Ink tablet, you shouldn't expect nan soft colors and crisp images you spot successful a afloat colour display. You'll besides spot immoderate texture if you look intimately astatine your Kindle Colorosoft, akin to comic book texture, which is different unexpected effect that initially garnered antagonistic feedback. 

Instead, nan Kindle Colorsoft offers a richer but somewhat muted colorful acquisition to grow what you bask astir an E Ink tablet.