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hi everyone this is FaZe and welcome to
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my Channel today I'm going to be
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reviewing the all new Kindle colorsoft
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which is a first ever colored Kindle
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from Amazon this is something that I've
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been waiting for for such a long time
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not just me I know a ton of people in
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the digital reading community that have
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been wanting a Kindle with a color
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display and we're seeing so many other
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companies like Cobo for an example who
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have come up with not just one but two
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really nice Flagship e-readers with a
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color display in fact I reviewed both
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the Kobo Clara and the Kobo Libra this
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year and I thought they were fantastic
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e-readers especially now that they have
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a colored display and when I did that
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review earlier this year I was wondering
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why Amazon is so late in giving us a
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Kindle with a color display and this
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year finally you know they launched the
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new Kindle color soft and I've been
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testing it for quite a few days now and
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it's great in fact when I first unboxed
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this and I set this up it was so nice to
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see color for the first time ever on a
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Kindle and the Kindle is always you know
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a very special device to me because it
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was one of the first Flagship e-readers
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in the market and it was always known
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for its black and white display so to
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see color and its user interface that
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I've you know grown to love it was quite
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an incredible feeling especially to see
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the book covers and flipping through
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comic books and seeing color was amazing
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but now I will say in this review I'm
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not going to get overly technical it has
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the same Kido 3 you know display that
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the Cobo Libra and the Kobo color half
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for an example so there's not much of a
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difference and there is a slight
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difference actually but I'll get to that
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later I just want to talk about my
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reading experience on the new Kindle
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color soft so reviewing this device is a
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little difficult for me because it's
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literally identical to the new Kindle
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paper white that I reviewed last week so
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if you saw that review just know that
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everything that I said in that review
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also applies to this you get the nice
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7-in display the Kindle paper white you
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get a standard version and a signature
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edition which gives you 32 GB of storage
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a metallic back and wireless charging
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and auto adjusting front light but those
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are standard on the Kindle color soft
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they only provide you with a signature
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edition not a cheaper version and who
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knows in the future they might come up
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with a cheaper model of the Kindle col
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soft that's just standard and because
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they are marketing this as a signature
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edition so if this is signature edition
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where's the standard edition so like I
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said you get the auto adjusting front
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light you get the metallic back you get
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wireless charging and you don't get any
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ads on it as well also there's this nice
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little touch that Amazon has done to the
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back of the Kindle color soft that they
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haven't done with any of the other
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Kindles that is on the Amazon smile logo
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there's this nice shimmering effect that
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shows color it's really cool has like
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this almost rainbow type looking feel
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and I think that's a cool little touch
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because it shows off that this is a
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color Kindle because if you were to
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compare this side by side with the
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screens turned off with this and the
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Kindle Paper wide you would not be be
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able to tell a difference they're
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identical so I think this nice uh
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colorful smile shimmering effect on the
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back of this is a is a nice touch now
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when you're reading in black and white
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on the Kindle colorsoft the experience
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is almost identical to the Kindle paper
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white and I say almost because I did
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notice that the screen seems a little
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darker just a tad bit darker than that
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of the paper white and I looked into it
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and it's based on the placement of the
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lighting with this new Kindle color soft
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it's slightly different because they're
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using a display to provide color so they
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have to adjust the lighting and the
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amount of lights that are in the Kindle
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color soft so it is slightly darker I
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don't think a lot of people are going to
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notice a difference but because I was
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reviewing it I was really being nitpicky
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and I noticed that it is slightly darker
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than the Kindle paper white not a big
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deal at all you just have to make the
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screen a little brighter than the Kindle
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paper white and just like with the
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Kindle paper white you get 25% faster
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page flips so when you're reading
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through this you're just flying through
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and you don't see those page refreshes
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so that's really really neat so if you
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are someone with an older generation
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Kindle in general and if you get this
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one you're going to really appreciate
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the faster page flips it's really really
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fast and it's not just with the page
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flips it's also the overall experience
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of using this scrolling through books
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browsing through the Kindle Store
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everything is 20% faster even when
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you're adjusting the temperature of the
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display or the brightness of the display
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everything just feels faster and I'm
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going to keep comparing this to the
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previous generation Kindle paper white
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because this is what it's built off of
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right so it's much faster so if you are
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coming from a Kindle paper white you're
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noticeably going to see a big
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Improvement on speed and if you're using
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the current Kindle paper white then it's
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identical but now I know what everyone's
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thinking faas stop talking about just
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the reading experience in black and
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white how is it when reading with
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colorful graphic novels and stuff and
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the experien is great I wouldn't say
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it's amazingly different from a Kobo
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Clara or a Cobo Libra it's very very
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similar and I don't think an average
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consumer or reader is going to find a
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difference between reading on the Kindle
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cter soft or some other digital e-reader
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with a color display because most
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e-readers out there in the market use
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the Kido 3 display and this is the same
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one that Amazon is using as well they
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did say that they have this other
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technology built off of it um which
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gives you enhanced colors but I didn't
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really notice a big difference I did
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notice a slight difference because when
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when I compared it to the cobal Libra
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for an example I noticed that the blacks
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are a lot richer in this Kindle color
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soft and the blues and the greens and
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the purples all the colors in general
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are a little more saturated now
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obviously it's a digital e-reader right
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so you're not going to compare this to a
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iPad Mini for an example which has the
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amazing vibrancy and saturation of an
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LCD display so it's more of like reading
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from a newspaper or something right
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that's how the colors look slightly
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washed out but once again that's how
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newspapers are that's how it is when
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you're reading in print right so that's
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not a bad thing that's just something we
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have to get used to now one thing that
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Amazon is providing you with is two
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different color styles so for example
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you have standard which is balanced
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color for just everyday reading and
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Vivid which enhances color and less
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saturated images so if you're reading a
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comic book and the colors in general of
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that comic book are not as colorful um
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then if you use Vivid they seem brighter
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and more saturated so that's kind of
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what I have on my settings I like
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everything to be a little more colorful
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um so vivid is the you know the choice
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that I went for but you can also
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alternate between standard and Vivid I
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think you know for most people the
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Kindle paper white is the ideal device
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but if you are someone who reads a lot
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of comic books and color is a big
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component in your you know everyday
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reading you're really going to love the
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Kindle color soft and at the end of the
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day it is
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$280 I don't know why but I feel like
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there will be a cheaper version of this
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because like I said even on the box it
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says Kindle colorsoft signature edition
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right so they're spelling it out that
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this is more of a expensive model so
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where's the standard one I said this in
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the beginning I'm saying it now I feel
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like there might be a cheaper model that
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will come out which won't have the you
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know Auto adjusting front light which
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may not have wireless charging it may
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have the more cheaper plastic back
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instead of this metallic back so I think
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they're going to make a cheaper model of
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this in the future but I feel like for
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280 bucks this isn't for every everybody
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I will say this again this is great for
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those who read graphic novels and comic
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books or review documents and they're in
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color now when it comes to battery life
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um Amazon is saying that this should
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give you around 8 to 10 weeks of battery
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life in comparison to the Kindle paper
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white which gives up to 12 weeks of
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battery life I've been using this for
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about 30 to 40 minutes every single day
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for the past 3 or 4 days and I'm at
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35% so that's pretty good U once again I
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need to use this more and maybe I'll
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come up with an updated a review um
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where I can go over the battery life in
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Greater detail so for a device like this
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where you're only plugging it in like
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once a month maybe once every two months
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I don't think it makes a big difference
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to talk about the battery life if it
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even gives you 6 weeks instead of the 8
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weeks that Amazon's promising that's
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still a winner also I do want to bring
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up that a small number of customers have
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reported a yellow band along the bottom
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of the display I however did not face
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this issue at all but I know quite a few
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people that to have I reached out to
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Amazon and they said that customers who
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noticed this can contact their customer
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service team for a replacement or refund
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and that they are looking into this
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issue but at the end of the day this
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basically wraps up my review I know it
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was very short and I'm only talking
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about from my personal experience the
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colors are great it's not
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industry-leading right it's if you've
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seen any you know eer out there in the
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market with a colorful display probably
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very similar but if you're in the Kindle
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EOS system and all your books are on
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here and you love reading books with
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color then this is the device for you
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and yes the technology will mature it
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will get better I feel like in the next
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couple years we might get an updated
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color soft with an even better color
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accuracy and saturation but for what I'm
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seeing here for a first gen model I
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think this is pretty good and if you
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have $280 to spend on a device that
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you're going to do a lot of reading with
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color this is a device to get but once
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again there are cheaper models out there
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in the market there is the Kobo Libra
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and the Kobo clar um both with colorful
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displays so maybe you can consider
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looking into that as well and I've done
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and I've done reviews for both the cobal
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Clara and the Libra on my channel and I
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love them very very much and I actually
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really like the Cobo Libra color because
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it has page turn buttons and I know a
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lot of people love the Kindle Oasis
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because of its page turn buttons but
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Amazon unfortunately discontinued the
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Kindle Oasis for whatever reason but if
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you do like patreon buttons and you like
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a colorful display the Cobo Libra color
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might be the perfect e-reader for you
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but at the end of the day I want to know
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your questions your concerns and your
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thoughts so comment below let me know
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