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Kobo Aura 2 and 1st Gen Kobo H2O on Sale

August 4, 2017 by Nathan Groezinger

Kobo Deal

Kobo has a couple of ongoing deals for the Kobo Aura Edition 2 and the 1st gen Kobo Aura H2O.

The Kobo Aura 2 is on sale for $99. It normally sells for $119 but often goes on sale for $99, like the Kindle Paperwhite.

The Kobo Aura (review) is Kobo’s latest 6-inch ereader, their only remaining 6-inch model. It has a frontlight and a 212ppi E Ink screen.

They’ve also got a deal on the 1st gen Kobo Aura H2O.

It sells for $159 ($20 less than the newer model) and it comes with a free sleepcover, which normally sells for $39.

With a 6.8-inch 265ppi E Ink screen, the 1st gen H2O (review) is largely the same as the second gen model, but it’s a bit heavier and it doesn’t have the adjustable frontlight color, although it does have the advantage of a memory card slot.

Kobo also has a (hidden) listing for the older Kobo Aura HD for $89. That’s not a bad price for a 6.8-inch ereader but it’s several years old at this point.

Filed Under: Kobo, Sales and Discounts Tagged With: kobo aura, kobo aura h2O

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  1. John says

    August 5, 2017 at 7:26 am

    With Kobo ending support for PDF my interest for them has dropped to zero.

    • Nathan says

      August 5, 2017 at 8:02 am

      Kobo isn’t ending support for PDFs on their ereaders, they’re just going to stop offering PDF as a format to download from their website. They’re switching them to ePub instead. Kobo sells very few PDFs anyway, probably less than 1% of their catalog. It’s not a good sign that they’ll continue to develop the PDF software on their ereaders but then again they haven’t done that for 5 years, and KOReader makes it rather irrelevant.

  2. Vicente says

    August 19, 2017 at 8:47 am

    Kobo Aura HD, despite its antiquity, is a great deal that price. Do you know if they ship them to Europe? They have a shop here, but this device is not available in our local shop. Thanks

    • Nathan says

      August 19, 2017 at 10:35 am

      It varies by country: https://us.kobobooks.com/pages/retailers

      • Vicente says

        August 20, 2017 at 1:45 am

        I’ m in Spain and they’ve a local web, but they don’t sell it here

  3. David says

    August 27, 2017 at 8:18 am

    Do the current models ever go on sale? Black Friday? Boxing Day? I’m planning to but the H2O Ed2, but I’ll wait for the price to drop.

    • Nathan says

      August 27, 2017 at 9:19 am

      They frequently put the Kobo Aura 2 on sale for $99 but they rarely put other models on sale, not until they’re phased out. Kobo never does anything cool for Black Friday/Cyber Monday. They’ll probably just have the Aura 2 on sale for $99 again like they did last year…

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