These both come with everything you need and very little you don’t.
But the Clara 2E has two big advantages over the Kindle.
One is that it is made mostly from recycled plastic.
Kobo
The other is that its software is way better.
Round One, Hardware
Specs-wise, these two are almost equal.
So far, there’s not so much to choose between the two.
Kobo
The Kindle feels like you’re reading computer text on a screen.
The Kobo feels like you’re reading the page of a paper book.
This might seem like a picky, esoteric difference.
Kobo
Then there’s the rest of it.
Kobo’s library and store views are quite different from the Kindle.
Again, the Kobo feels less web-pagey than the Kindle.
This isn’t always better.
Kobo’s recommendations, for example, are displayed as cards in a kind of fanned stack.
It’s fine, but it doesn’t make it any easier to navigate.
There are two other major software differences.
One is the way previews work.
On the Kindle, you save a preview to your library, then you go and open it.
It’s a truncated version of the book.
On Kobo, you’re free to preview the book right there in the store surfing app view.
The experience is much more like picking up and browsing books in a store.
The other big difference is that Kobo readers have the Pocket read-later service built in.
This means you could save long web articles, and they get formatted for Kobo.
They’re way nicer.
