I am a big-time reader. I burn through books like they're going out of fashion, often committing to my next read before finishing my last. So when the Kindle Colorsoft — the e-reader I've been eyeing — was discounted for Prime Day last week, I snapped it up, thinking there was absolutely no harm in nabbing the newly released Kindle. But to my surprise, Amazon's first color e-reader has been plagued by an ongoing issue, and potentially some of its other models, too, due to Amazon's own actions.
As per multiple Reddit threads, Kindle Colorsoft users have found that "sideloading" e-books — the process of transferring e-books onto the device via the USB port or Wi-Fi from third-party libraries — failed to work correctly, as book covers did not appear on their device. The same issue was also found in older models, including one user's 2018 Paperwhite.
