Joining refreshed Paperwhite, Scribe, and entry-level Kindle models, the Colorsoft brings a whole new dimension to Amazon's lineup of ebook readers. Read on for our first impressions of all four new Kindles.

At its New York product event today, Amazon also debuted new versions of three existing Kindle models. The refreshed devices are headlined by the latest edition of the Kindle Scribe, which is designed for not only reading but also writing. It has the largest display of any Kindle and includes a stylus for jotting down notes.

It’s been 17 years since Amazon first put a digital e-Reader device on bookshelves, and while the marvel of carrying around a whole library’s worth of ebooks in the palm of your hand never got old, one thing was always missing: colour.