TheKobo Libra Colour and Kobo Clara Colourseem to be doing everything right, from price to features to repairability.
If you’rea hardcore e-reader lover, then you might be skeptical of the addition of color.
What does it do to the battery life?
Highlighting text on a Kobo Libra Colour with the Kobo stylus.Rakuten Kobo
Are the pages (already not as white as paper) dimmer or grayer?
The answers appear to be no, and no, and the advantages are legion.
They even work with styluses!
Writing on a Kobo Libra Colour with a Kobo stylus.Rakuten Kobo
“Some books need color-coded note-taking and highlighting.
Price-wise, they come in at only a little more than the monochrome versions.
So what about that screen?
So how does it look?
From the photos of the Kaleido screen available online, it looks pretty good.
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What’s the point, though?
The answer is, they’re e-books, but with color.
This means they’re great forreading textbooks, making illustrations and diagramsmuch easier to understand.
But my favorite part is highlighting text and using the stylus to draw doodles and make notes.
And it’s also going to be cool to see color covers on the lock screen.
There’s one more thing.
Kobo hasteamed up with iFixitto make these new Kobos more repairable.
The web page says that you will be able to “replac[e] common components.”
