Kinda surprised they even still exist. Bought one for my mom years ago. She used it a lot but thought 10-15 bucks for an ebook was too much. So i had to download a bunch of public domain stuff for her. Kept her occupied for a good while
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Both use E Ink’s latest Kaleido color screen technology, which has subtle, pastel-like hues and drops from a 300ppi grayscale resolution to 150ppi when you view content in color.
The seven-inch Kobo Libra 2 is my favorite e-reader outside of Amazon’s ecosystem, offering the Kindle Paperwhite’s IPX8 waterproof design but with extras like physical page-turning buttons, no lockscreen ads, and more storage.
However, it’s $30 more expensive than the Kobo Libra 2, and you’ll have to buy the stylus separately for $69.99.
It offers the same six-inch display and IPX8 waterproof design but now comes with 16GB of storage, as well as an improved processor.
I hope so; the Kobo Clara 2E’s sluggish performance was one of my chief complaints.
All of the devices are available to preorder starting today and will ship on April 30th.
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"Kobo announces they'll finally spend a couple more bucks in each unit so they can ship same display any other Chinese company doing e-readers ships". - There, title fixed.
Chinese
Kobo is Canadian.
The point is that you've tons of Chinese companies selling e-ink tablets with color displays and Kobo now decided to spend a couple more bucks doing the same in order to catch up.
Whilst this is nice. I've had a color ebook reader for maybe four years. It's not a new technology.