Kobo Libra Colour | eReader | 7” Glare-Free Colour E Ink Kaleido™ 3 Display | Dark Mode Option | Audiobooks | Waterproof | (Black)

Wow! Best product ever purchased maybe? And a word from a nerdy little kid…
Talk about falling in love with a product. Scoured reviews for ebook readers and the libra colour was what I needed. Had never owned an ebook reader before so had been using mobile phone or at times an ipad to read ebooks. When I got this I also ordered the luxury case you’ll see on amazon (around 30 or so). Take my advice, get the case with it. Closes magneticalky, fits it superbly.Back to the device. It was new to me but got it opened, beautiful reader. I mean so high quality it’s just not funny. Within 10 min I had it linked to the Web (yeah it can link to Google drive etc) and had transferred like 40 ebooks over. So easy. You can do this via the cable or like me just do it over WiFi. I can go to Google drive on my phone or laptop, drag files into the rakuten kobo or similar folder and then your reader has a section to access idrive, other online locations such as the kobo store (amazing too), and heck you can even go to a browser in a ‘beta’ type file. Just a note – because of the eink display, refresh rates etc don’t expect much from a browser etc. Other than functionality that is. But it does everything you need.Omigod these things are so good. I literally felt guilty for buying myself it. That’s how good the thing is. Honestly this thing is one step away from getting Beyonce to give you her cell number.The display is superb, much like a real book. I have mixed formats of files but I use software called Calibre (free and comes in mac, pc, android etc versions) whcih allows you to manage your library for the libra, convert formats, add different book covers or change anything you want for each book. This is the platinum standard software I would say to manage libraries with your kobo libre. Amazing stuff.Yeah so amazin display, fast when you change page. Super customisable. Battery is so good I started to think mine was solar powered.Oh did I mention I opted for the stylus as well? It’s a no brainier for me I mean add a little to the initial buy price to get it thrown in with the libra (cos it does come free and is optional) or wait till after and get stung for the full stylus price?I love the thing. It’s accurate, it has your own notebook section so like I read a lot of science books, and I like to take notes. You can do so on the actual book pages or if you’re like me, finish a part, open the ‘my notebooks’ section and separately do some notes etc. It’s a joy to use, very accurate and its smart so it knows not to let your palm hitting the screen to do anything. Omigod amazing.For the older user… Years and years back there was this little nerdy kid who watched Inspector Gadget with his kid brothers and sisters and like most kids he longed to have the ‘smart’ electronic book that Gadget’s daughter Penny owned. She cracked crimes with it, mainly by looking stuff up but this was the thing to have. The nerdy kid dreamt about having a book like that for years.Then he grew up.. And years went by and he had put away childish things but then had some twists and turns in life and started to think again of what truly made him happy?KOBO – you guys gave that nerdy little kid his dream book with the libra colour. I cannot explain to you the joy of reading classics or scientific books on here, especially looking at how the diagrams ‘pop’ right out of the page at you with the eink screens colour output.The nerdy kid is now a nerdy man. But he’s a happy nerdy man. Every morning he gets up and the first thing he does it reached for his Kobo Libra Colour, his own magic little book.You guys aren’t making products – you’re making dreams come true.Thank you so much.Ex nerdy little kid

Almost Perfect Alternative to Kindle
Coming from an older Paperwhite, this is an almost perfect replacement if you want to expand outside of the Kindle ecosystem-system. The colour screen and the physical buttons are very nice, and the user interface is easier to navigate than the Kindle.The only drawback, and this is a major one for me, is that there is no ability to search within the text of your entire library. I’m currently reading through a large series, and I frequently search for characters that have been introduced in earlier books to remind myself of their background. The Kindle allows you to highlight a character name and search through your entire library, Kobo is restricted only to the current book.Otherwise, it’s a very good alternative to the Kindle.

More functions than I’ll use, but a great ebook reader
I was looking for a 7″ reader and I don’t need colour or a stylus but my options were limited and I ended up purchasing the Kobo Libra Colour. I was concerned about the slightly reduced contrast of a colour version and it is very slightly noticeable if you don’t use the front light at all, but a very minimal setting offsets that perfectly without effecting battery life much. I’ve paid for functions I’m not going to use, and the price of the stylus puts me off even trying.With all that said, overall, I’m really happy with it for my use case; the software is really good and I appreciate the large screen, the physical buttons and the auto-rotate.

Après avoir hésité pendant longtemps, j’ai finalement opté pour la Kobo et je suis plus que satisfaite de mon choix ! Sa taille est parfaite. Ni trop grande, ni trop petite. La colorisation est chouette. La possibilité de faire des carnets/notes rend l’objet encore plus attractif, à condition d’y ajouter le stylet (non contenu). La prise en main est facile et intuitive et la lecture vraiment agréable. L’objet est assez léger, de sorte à pouvoir se plonger toute une soirée sur un livre sans avoir le poignet cassé. En bref, aucun regret !

Envío rápido y correcto. Bien embalado. Lo he probado poco (lo acabo de recibir) pero funciona correctamente. La pantalla responde correctamente y se nota un producto bien acabado. Aún no he probado el Bluetooth ni los audiolibros (no estoy interesado en esas opciones ). La WiFi correcta (también en la banda de los 5GHz). Nada más conectar busca actualizaciones. Parece que la interfaz está mejorada respecto a modelos anteriores (Kobo Libra 2 es el último que tengo). Los colores se ven bien, hay que tener en cuenta que no es una tablet ni un PC, no tienen ese brillo ni son los mismos tipos de pantalla. No creo que se puedan realizar comparaciones objetivas. No tienen nada que ver. Resumiendo, estoy contento con la compra realizada.

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