Rakuten Kobo is launching its first colour e-readers, the Kobo Libra Colour and the Kobo Clara Colour. Both use E Ink’s latest Kaleido colour screen technology, which has subtle, pastel-like hues and drops from a 300ppi grayscale resolution to 150ppi when you view content in colour.
Prices seem to be about $10 to $30 more than the black and white model, and a stylus will cost extra if you want one.
It will be interesting to see what thew reviews show from May 2024 after they've shipped. Kobo's are actually excellent readers and this also shows again how they can out-innovate Amazon. Kobo's also have long supported the ePub format, which Amazon only started to support about a year or two back. Amazon's only big strength is their massive bookstore.
It is quite easy to buy books and use Calibre to push them to a Kobo reader.
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They’re available to preorder now.
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