If you have considered buying the Amazon Kindle Colorsoft but understandably couldn’t stomach the usual £269.99 asking price, Argos has a deal you may be very tempted by.
Right now, Argos is offering the Kindle Colorsoft, Amazon’s first ever colour screen e-reader, for £193.49 thanks to a combination of two different discounts.
It’s part of Argos’s current Red Sale, a semi-regular sale the retailers puts on online that often features quite a bit of decent new technology. Using the code RED10 at checkout knocks 10 percent of the listing price off the Kindle Colorsoft – which is why we were surprised but pleased to see that the listed price was also discounted.
The Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition with 32GB storage is listed as £214.99, a £55 saving on the usual £269.99 RRP. With the RED10 offer code applied at checkout, this takes the Kindle to £193.49. This is still pricey, but much more reasonable than the rather lofty usual ask. It’s even cheaper than the lowest price it’s ever cost from Amazon itself, which is £219.99 according to Amazon price tracker site Camelcamelcamel.
Amazon launched the Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition last year as its first ever colour screen Kindle, which makes book covers and in-book illustrations come to life in colour, finally. It also means this Kindle is much better if you want to read comic books and graphic novels, though in my testing I found the display a bit too small to really enjoy these.
View the Amazon Kindle Colorsoft deal at Argos
Since its release, Amazon has brought out a £239.99 regular Colorsoft with 16GB storage, but the one on sale at Argos is the 32GB Signature Edition, which includes wireless charging capability and an automatically adjusting backlight, two features the cheaper model lacks.
If you want to take the colour Kindle plunge, now seems like the time. Amazon sells the Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition, which also has the auto-light and wireless charging, for £189.99. At the sale price, you can get the Kindle Colorsoft right now for less than a fiver more than that. It’s a no-brainer.
The decision gets harder if you only read books with text. If it’s novels and non-fiction you’re into, you might find that the only advantage colour gives you is viewing the Kindle book store in colour. This is fun and feels more like real book shopping – and it’s fun to have a colour book cover on the screen when not using the device – but aside from that, you may not benefit from the colour display.
If that’s the case, Argos is also offering the regular Paperwhite (not the Signature Edition) for £121.49 once you’ve applied the same RED10 code at checkout. That’s quite a chunk less than the Colorsoft, and might be all the Kindle you need.
View the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite deal at Argos