Kobo’s color e-reader is a far better deal than Amazon’s new Kindle Colorsoft

The Kindle Colorsoft offers an awesome colour screen, but it’s not for everybody. Luckily, if you don’t want to fastener yourself into Amazon’s ecosystem, the Kobo Libra Colour is an fantabulous alternative that’s connected waste for an all-time debased of $199.99 ($20 off) astatine Amazon and Target for Black Friday. You tin besides bargain it for the aforesaid value from Rakuten Kobo, and if you acquisition it pinch a $50 gift card, the retailer is throwing successful a $10 in installments that’s bully toward books, styli, and audiobooks.

Personally, I americium a large instrumentality of the Kobo Libra Colour. The waterproof e-reader features the aforesaid colour E Ink exertion utilized successful the Kindle Colorsoft, on pinch the aforesaid crisp 300ppi resolution, which is halved successful colour mode. There are immoderate subtle differences, though. For example, the Colorsoft’s surface appears much vibrant and neutral than that of the Kobo, and ultimately, my workfellow Andrew Liszewski preferred it. Still, that doesn’t make the Colour’s inferior. Its 7-inch surface is lukewarm and bright, and Kobo offers an adjustable earthy ray slider if you want to alteration up the hue.

However, possibly the biggest trading points of the Libra Colour are the further features it offers, which travel astatine a cheaper price. It costs $80 little than the Colorsoft astatine $199.99, but dissimilar the Colorsoft, the Libra Colour offers stylus support (though you’ll person to acquisition the stylus separately). That’s handy, peculiarly if you want to item passages successful immoderate you’re reading. What’s more, the Libra Colour features beingness page-turning buttons, which I consciousness makes an e-reader much intuitive to use.

The Libra Colour offers a fewer package perks, too, including autochthonal support for read-it-later app Pocket truthful you tin publication articles offline. You tin moreover get free room ebooks straight connected your Kobo, acknowledgment to its built-in support for Overdrive. Obviously, the main drawback is that the Kobo doesn’t natively support Kindle books. That being said, you tin still person your Kindle room and publication them connected your Libra Colour, moreover if it does return immoderate other steps.