In addition to the Kobo Libra Colour, Kobo has unveiled two new Kobo Clara models, one with a color E Ink screen and one with a regular black and white screen, and both are available to pre-order now from Kobo’s website. The Kobo Clara Colour has a 6-inch Kaleido 3 screen, and it sells for […]
eBook Readers
New Kobo Libra Colour Now Available to Pre-Order
Today Kobo officially announced three new ereaders, including the Kobo Libra Colour with a 7-inch color E Ink screen. This will be the first time that Kobo has released ereaders with color E Ink screens. The Kobo Libra Colour looks a lot like the Kobo Libra 2, and it’s available in white or black like […]
Color E Ink: 5 Things to Know Before Buying
Now that Kobo is releasing new ereaders with color E Ink screens, people are asking questions about color E Ink and want to know more about it. E Ink’s color “Kaleido” screen technology has been around for several years, but it’s gone through three generations now and devices that use the latest Kaleido 3 screens […]
Why Do New eReaders Keep Getting Worse Instead of Better?
When it comes to dedicated reading devices, the technology evolves at such a slow rate that it just seems like the “improvements” over the past several years have mostly been marketing hype and smoke and mirrors. At this point you could make the argument that a lot of the newer models are actually worse than […]
New 7″ PocketBook Era Color Getting Released in April
PocketBook’s German division has announced the upcoming release of the PocketBook Era Color with a 7-inch color E Ink Kaleido 3 screen. The new model shares the same design as the original PocketBook Era, but it adds some upgrades, including a faster quad-core CPU and more storage space (32GB), and of course it has a […]
It’s Time for Color E Ink Screens to Go Mainstream
Some people won’t like to hear this, but I think this is going to be the year where we start to see a lot more ereaders and eNotes using color E Ink screens. Last year when I reviewed the Onyx Boox Tab Ultra C with the latest generation color E Ink screen, a Kaleido 3 […]
Narrow Bezels vs Wide Bezels, Which Do You Prefer?
It seems like a growing trend with ebook readers is to make the bezels smaller and smaller with each new generation that comes out, to the point where it can become a hindrance in some cases. Kindles are a good example of how bezels have become narrower over the years. The Kindle Paperwhites 1-3 all […]
New Color Kobo eReaders Leaked (Probably)
Yesterday someone over at Mobileread posted links to a website that sells Kobo ereaders with listings for three new Kobo ereaders, including two models that seem to have color E Ink screens, and it looks like these new devices might in fact be the three Kobo ereaders that are listed on the FCC website. Every […]