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 privation to fastener yourself into Amazon’s ecosystem, the Kobo Libra Colour is an fantabulous alternative that’s connected merchantability 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 terms from Rakuten Kobo, and if you acquisition it with a $50 acquisition card, the retailer is throwing successful a $10 recognition 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 with 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 marque the Colour’s inferior. Its 7-inch surface is lukewarm and bright, and Kobo offers an adjustable earthy airy slider if you privation to alteration up the hue.

However, possibly the biggest selling 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 enactment (though you’ll person to acquisition the stylus separately). That’s handy, peculiarly if you privation to item passages successful immoderate you’re reading. What’s more, the Libra Colour features carnal page-turning buttons, which I consciousness makes an e-reader much intuitive to use.

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