Kobo is running a “sale” on the Kobo Clara BW and the Kobo Libra Colour, but it’s hard to consider it a real sale when both are selling for the same prices as they were last month.
The Kobo Clara BW is now marked down to $139.99 from $159.99, and the Kobo Libra Colour is marked down to $229.99 from $259.99.
Kobo raised the prices of those models by $20 and $30 respectively exactly one month ago today, so they’re “on sale” at the exact same prices they’ve been selling for since the last price hike in February 2025.
Just once I’d like to see Kobo run a real sale like Amazon does with Kindles during Prime Day and Black Friday. Right now Amazon has several Kindle bundles on sale for over $100 off, and the Scribe bundles are over $200 off.
But we’ll never seen anything like that from Kobo, unfortunately. They just keep doing the same $20-$30 off sales over and over again every few months, and now that they’ve increased the prices of Kobo ereaders for the third time in as many years, it doesn’t even feel like a true sale anymore.
Oh well, it’s nice to get a discount anyway. I think this is the first time the Kobo Clara BW has been discounted since last year. The Libra Colour was just selling for $199 a little over a month ago so it’s hard to feel good about the current “sale”, but the price will probably never go that low again until they start selling refurbished units.
Also, if you’re in Canada or the UK the Kobo Libra 2 is back in stock as certified refurbished. It’s £149.99 in the UK, and $199.99 in Canada, and it comes with a free sleepcover. That seems kind of pricey for a device that’s 5 years old, but it was one of Kobo’s most popular models. It’s a shame they never released a newer version.
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