![]() I haven’t tried the $120 Kobo Clara, but I’d imagine it’s more or less comparable to the Kindle Paperwhite. (You might notice the Kobo logo screened onto the front of the plastic I wish it wasn’t there, but the truth is that I never notice it when I’m reading.) There’s no doubt that the Kindle is nicer to hold-but it’s also $100 more. The big difference between them is that the Kobo has a plastic back, while the Kindle’s is aluminum. Like the high-end Kindle Oasis, the Kobo Libra H2O is a waterproof ereader with a sidelit seven-inch diagonal E Ink screen and a grippable edge with two physical page-turn buttons. Down to the hardware For $100 less you don’t get a nice aluminum back. ![]() However, I’m planning on keeping a Kindle around-and Calibre and its associated DeDRM plugin make it relatively easy for me to download old Kindle purchases and load them on a Kobo. Really, Amazon’s greatest advantage over Kobo is that I’ve got years of book purchases locked up in Amazon’s proprietary, DRM-encoded format. Amazon has improved a lot of its maddening typography features over the years-forced justification being perhaps its greatest sin-but Kobo’s still ahead.īoth services let you buy books from their online stores. Kindle fonts seem jagged compared to Kobo fonts. I can’t tell how much of the Kindle’s poor text handling is its operating system and how much is its selection of typefaces, but type just looks better on the Kobo. The other superior feature of the Kobo is typography. Using Libby got me using library ebooks once in a while, but using a Kobo has made it a regular habit. If you check out ebooks from the library, or might consider doing so, the Kobo’s simply better. There’s no Overdrive interface on the Kindle itself. You need to check out a book on the web or in Libby, then click to send the book to, then click on to send the book to your Kindle. While Kindles will work with Overdrive, it’s a circuitous process. You can see your Overdrive queue and return books, all from the device itself. If I’ve checked out a book elsewhere-say, via the excellent Libby app, the book will download automatically the next time the device syncs to the network. Unsurprisingly, Kobo connects well with Overdrive, allowing me to browse and check out books directly on the device. Many libraries will let you borrow ebooks using Overdrive, a service that’s a part of the same company that owns Kobo. ![]() But in a few areas, it’s clearly superior. The software on the Kobo is, as you might expect, quite similar to that on the Kindle. ![]() Still, how is it possible that the Kindle didn’t let you use the cover of the book you’re currently reading as the screen saver image until April 2021?! More library books are coming to my Kobo soon. I’ve been using Kindles since the beginning, and the pace of Kindle software innovation is quite slow, though it’s actually shown a bit of improvement over the last few years. And while the Libra H2O is made of less premium materials than my old favorite, the Kindle Oasis, it also costs $100 less. It was just idle checking, I swear, and that’s why it took a couple of weeks for me to buy a Kobo Libra H2O.Īfter reading a few books on the Kobo, I’m prepared to declare that I actually prefer the Kobo to the Kindle. And that was when-as you do-I popped over to Kobo’s website to see what their current crop of ereaders looked like. The Kobo, a 2016-vintage Aura One, offered a few features that the Kindle didn’t, and I liked the idea of putting a mostly-unloved device to work at something it was good at.Īt some point I noticed a big gouge in the screen, probably a legacy of a school trip my daughter took a few years ago. This past year I’ve been spending more time reading books on a Kobo ereader, rather than on my Kindle. The Kobo Libra H2O is $100 less than the similar Kindle Oasis.
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