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Kobo has introduced a minor new addition to its e-reader vary with a white model of the Kobo Clara Colour, the firm’s least expensive color screen gadget.

It has a 6-inch E Ink show that makes use of the identical Kaleido 3 technology because the Kindle Colorsoft, which has a related design with touchscreen and no web page flip buttons. The massive distinction is the price, as Amazon costs no less than £239.99 for its Colorsoft, whereas the Kobo Clara Colour prices £149.99.

That makes the gadget, both within the new white or present black, a great alternative when you fancy an e-reader but both need to keep away from Amazon, or just need the best bang in your buck. With a color screen, e-book covers stand out more in your library or within the Kobo store, plus illustrations in books and in graphic novels and comedian books are much better represented.

The Clara Colour has Kobo’s ComfortLight Pro frontlight that reduces blue mild robotically at evening, full water resistance, claimed “weeks of battery life” relying in your utilization and 16GB of storage you’ll be hard-pressed to fill with small e-book obtain information. That’s primarily there to tune into audiobooks, which you’ll be able to obtain and take heed to by way of Bluetooth headphones.

Kobos’ predominant benefit over Kindles within the UK is the power to hook up with OverDrive, the free service that permits you to verify our e-books without cost. All you need is a native library card, and you may sign up when linked to Wi-Fi on the Kobo and browse obtainable loans to put on maintain or try immediately.

It’s a great system – OverDrive owns the favored Libby e-book library app – and it’s solely obtainable on Kobos within the UK. Kindles assist OverDrive within the US, but not on these shores.

That makes the £149.99 Kobo Clara Colour a great e-reader decide, getting you a color screen and OverDrive integration for much less than the fee of the most affordable black and white screen £159.99 Kindle Paperwhite, not to mention the most affordable £239.99 Colorsoft.

“Since we launched our colour eReaders, Kobo Libra Colour and Kobo Clara Colour, in 2024, we have been overwhelmed with how positively they have been received by booklovers around the world,” mentioned Michael Tamblyn, CEO, Rakuten Kobo.

“Our most popular feature request since launch has been ‘Clara Colour, but make it white!’ and we are happy to be able to meet that demand. At Kobo, we just focus on one thing: delighting readers. Every part of the eReader experience plays a part. We’re proud to be adding Kobo Clara Colour in white to that offering.”

Kobos have additionally long supported integration with the learn later app Pocket, but this has gone away as Pocket has shut down. Not to be perturbed, Kobo has already set up compatibility with Instapaper, a related learn later app. Pushed out as a free software program replace, you may signal into Instapaper in your Kobo, which can then obtain and show any of the online articles you save by way of a browser extension in your smartphone or laptop computer.

You’ll be capable of buy the new white Kobo Clara Colour from September 23 within the UK. The black model is obtainable now.