The E Ink display employs something similar to that just with thousands if not millions higher in resolution so you can read the text easily. Writing with a magnetic pen and then easily erasing it with a swipe of the lever. It was a gift to replace an 8 year old Kindle and a 9 year old Sony. The E Ink is something like the writing toy most of us used as a kid. The Kobo Nia is slow, the touch screen is hit and miss. The reading experience on a dedicated eReader is very different from the usual LCD displays we are used to on tablets/smartphones. Kobo is one of the cheapest audiobook providers today, and it has a superb selection, with over 100,000 titles. It comes with a with a 30-day free trial period. It is also possible that all digital copies of a book might be loaned out, so you would have to “Place a Hold” to join the waiting list. Kobo launched an audiobook subscription service in 2017 and membership costs 12.99 per month in Canada and 9.99 in the US. This means you can sign in to various devices and still have access to all the books that you have borrowed.īorrowing an eBook from the NLB library entitles you to a 3-week loan period. The OverDrive account allows you to synchronise your progress through different titles and bookmarks across multiple devices. If you haven’t got one, creating an account is free. You would first need to create an OverDrive account and link it to your myLibrary account. The latest pair of e-readers from Kobo provide a modest but noticeable upgrade to the display, stylus support and Bluetooth for listening to audiobooks but take a step down in build quality from. With OverDrive, readers can borrow eBooks from the National Library Board (NLB) libraries. Just under two years ago I reviewed the Kobo Forma, a flagship eReader designed to challenge Amazon’s Kindle Oasis as the top dog among premium eReaders. The Kobo Forma features this rating as well. The Kobo Libra H2O is the latest model to be introduced by the company and it even features an IPX8 rating making it waterproof. This year, Kobo took the logical step and combined the two with the massive, document-sized 10.3-inch 399.99 Elipsa and its new flagship 259.99 Sage e-reader. The biggest difference between them is the size of the screen, with the Kobo Forma being the biggest at 8-inches while the Kobo Clara HD comes in at 6-inches. In this review, we hope to help you discover if investing in one of these eReaders is the right choice for you! The 3 Models of Rakuten Kobo eReadersĬurrently, there are three different models that are being offered: Kobo Clara HD (SGD199.90), Kobo Libra H2O (SGD279.90) and Kobo Forma (SGD399.90).
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