Kobo Libra Colour

I have a love affair with my Kobo Clara Colour. More than once I've thought it would be great if I could call and send sms with it. (Using a Bluetooth headset.)

I own the Clara BW (C) and the Libra Colour (L). The C is sharper but the L looks more like a real book/paper. I believe as an artifact of the colour screen and it’s called “screenshot effect”. In the end, once you use either for 10 minutes it becomes “the new normal”.

Even without koreader a kobo is refreshingly open to tinkering. Getting root and ssh access is just a matter of renaming a file on the disk. I got the colour after being on an old paperwhite for many years so thankfully it's a big step up for me.

Yes, I do that for everything too. Also publishers like Standard ebooks provide a kepub download - as they explain here they have problems with the Adobe reader too. https://standardebooks.org/help/how-to-use-our-ebooks#kobo-f... I love my Kobo (clara colour) and really, if they just removed the Adobe reader, it'd be perfect. And yes, I've tried KOreader, but never switched to it because I like my Overdrive library books and Kobo Store.

One of the last physical books I owned was The Three-Body Problem trilogy in a single volume. It was massive, heavy and honestly beautiful. I loved it. Then I switched to the Kobo Libra Colour. The weight and portability make a huge difference. Having my entire library with me means I am no longer stuck with whatever I decided to bring before leaving home. The color display is not amazing, but it is good enough for comics. I have been reading things like Attack on Titan and Spider-Man on it. Reading tech books has been great too, especially those with graphs and images. If I had to sum it up in one word, versatile.

I'd like to be the person with the massive shelf of pretty books in a bookshelf. But alas, I don't have the square meters for that. Also I tend to like THICCC books and carrying around a 1600 page monster daily on my commute isn't it. So Kobo Libra Colour it is then.

I've been using a Kobo Libra color lately, and man E-ink has gotten SO GOOD. It's high resolution, snappy, and the whole package is light as a feather and with batteries that last for ages. I know some people prefer paper, but I love modern e-readers. They're amazingly tuned.

I moved to Kobo because I bought my partner the Kindle Oasis and just after a year the battery couldn't hold a charge. I contacted Amazon and they would only give me 10% off a new device. I only found one person on the internet who was courageous enough to open one up. The screen was epoxied to the body with no way of opening the device without destroying the screen. So I got her a Kobo Libra H2O. Just as waterproof, significantly cheaper, and you can actually repair it. I ended up getting a Libra Colour for myself and love it.

The Kobo Libra Colour has the best UX of a device I own, in that it's completely invisible. I can just read my damn books, highlight passages I think are noteworthy and save words I like the sound of. Everything just works, and the high seas experience is seamless.

Kobo Libra color. If I’m being very honest, the screen isn’t as good as the oasis but it’s a compromise I’ve accepted for vastly superior hackability. I telnet into my kobo and installed tailscale then pointed the api to my calibre web instance, I have a much better experience overall because the books are drm-free(d) and calibre web handles sync with kobo really well. And it has physical buttons. I was clinging to my oasis for the buttons.

Under $100: Pilot g-tec pens and an electric toothbrush. Under $1k: - HHKB hybrid type-s, I love this keyboard; - Kobo libra colour, for the integration with Libby in Canada. I also like that Kobo gives me points with each purchase, which can be used to get more books.

I wonder if they’re still using soft touch/rubberised plastic on the back? My last-gen Kindle Paperwhite has already started to go sticky and gross. I’ve also got an issue where the latest software update is causing frequent hangs when opening new books (literally 5+ minutes) and I quite often get stuck in books, unable to summon the menu to go back to my library. Seems to be a fairly common problem judging by Reddit. I ended up buying a Kobo Libra Colour just this week. So far I’m very happy with it. Performance is better and it’s compatible with a lot more stuff.

I love my Clara Color so much . It's light, fast, and it has buttons. And it's just about exactly the right size. My one complaint so far is that the battery seems to need a charge every few days. Definitely less than a week, I think. I can live with that.

I got the Kobo colour libra. I'm really enjoying it. I had a kindle and I really hated on it. It felt so laggy, I never got used to the touch vs buttons. I've got a big library of kindle books but I mostly read new books so it wasn't a big deal to switch. I mean, I've still got the kindle if I ever want to re-read something, I gave the device to one of my kids. Plus using something else opens up buying from many different places rather than JUST amazon. The Kobo feels faster and smoother. The buttons are nice. The interface is nice. I don't rate the colour display that highly, but it's a nice gimmick and I don't read stuff with lots of graphics anyway.

Libra Colour has a much better chipset than previous Kobo devices. It is very usable for PDF.