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Kindle Colorsoft owners complain of a yellow bar on the e-reader’s screen

They call me mellow yellow.

People have started receiving their orders of Amazon’s first color e-reader, the Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition, and many say they’re disappointed to find a yellow, discolored strip at the bottom of the display. A Reddit user posted a thread with images (see below), saying it’s most obvious when the Kindle “is supposed to be evenly lit and colored like a piece of paper.” Many others with the same issue say they’ve exchanged their Colorsoft for a new one or simply returned it. Our own review unit of the new e-reader falls in the former category — The Verge ’s Andrew Liszewski, who is testing the device now, said the discoloration is more obvious in pictures than in real life, and he wouldn’t have noticed if not for others’ complaints.

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