Rakuten Kobo launches its first color e-book readers: Kobo Libra Color and Kobo Clara Color. Both use E Ink’s latest Kaleido color screen technology, which delivers subtle, pastel tones and shrinks from a 300 ppi grayscale resolution to 150 ppi when viewing content in color.
I’ll be testing each e-readers soon, but for now they give the impression of being like minor improvements to existing Kobo e-readers. That’s not a nasty thing though! The seven-inch Kobo Libra 2 is my favorite e-reader outside of the Amazon ecosystem, offering the Kindle Paperwhite IPX8 waterproof case but with extras like physical page-turning buttons, no ads on the lock screen, and more storage.
The $219.99 Kobo Libra Color retains all of those features, but is now also compatible with the Kobo Stylus 2, similar to the Kobo Elipsa 2E. However, it’s $30 costlier than the Kobo Libra 2 and the stylus can have to be purchased individually for $69.99.
The $149.99 Kobo Clara Color is a little more different than its closest sibling, the $139.99 Kobo Clara 2E. It offers the identical six-inch display and IPX8 waterproof design, but now comes with 16GB of memory and an improved processor. I hope; One of my fundamental complaints was the slow performance of the Kobo Clara 2E.
Kobo also introduced an upgraded black and white version of the Kobo Clara BW with the identical upgraded storage and processor for $129.99.
All devices can be found for pre-order today and can ship on April 30.
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