Amazon is making its shade display Kindle extra inexpensive. Following the launch of the Kindle Colorsoft final 12 months, the retailer on Thursday launched a lower-cost model of the usually $279.99 machine. The brand new machine provides a $30 low cost for 16GB of storage as an alternative of 32GB, bringing the associated fee right down to $249.99. A Youngsters version can be now accessible.

The unique 7-inch Kindle Colorsoft Signature Version was designed to convey a extra participating visible expertise to the favored Kindle e-reader, superb for digitally shopping comics and different graphic novels or highlighting in numerous colours. The machine provided an adjustable, glare-free show with as much as eight weeks of battery life, and it even permits customers to invert the black textual content and white background of pages for individuals who favor a darkish mode-like expertise.

The brand new 16GB mannequin additionally options the high-contrast Colorsoft show of the unique, the adjustable heat gentle, battery life, quick web page turns, and extra. Plus, it consists of three months of Kindle Limitless, the subscription providing entry to over 4 million e-books.

Nonetheless, it received’t embody the auto-adjusting entrance gentle, wi-fi charging, or the bigger cupboard space of the Signature Version.

The Kindle Colorsoft Youngsters ships with an illustrated cowl, a two-year assure, and a 12 months of the Amazon Youngsters+ subscription providing entry to books, video games, movies, apps, and extra. The $269.99 machine features a handful of options to assist youngsters follow studying, too, together with a vocabulary builder and a function referred to as Phrase Sensible that helps them be taught new phrases, in addition to the OpenDyslexic font, and Bluetooth connectivity for listening to audiobooks.