Kobo launched their first shade ereaders, the Kobo Libra Color and the Kobo Clara Color, a little bit over a month in the past, and it appears to be like like Kobo’s choice to go along with shade E Ink was an excellent thought.
The Kobo Libra Color specifically has obtained a number of consideration because it was launched, and most opinions of it appear to be optimistic. Some folks don’t just like the darker display, after all, and the colour grid layer offers the display type of a bizarre textured look, however it’s fairly shocking how many individuals don’t appear to be bothered by these issues.
Talking from expertise, you do are inclined to get used to the totally different look of the colour screens the extra you employ them. At first it’s exhausting to not examine shade E Ink with common E Ink and LCD screens with brighter colours, however it seems there’s a marketplace for shade E Ink regardless of some drawbacks.
I’ll admit, I’ve been skeptical of shade E Ink for the reason that first shade ereaders began popping out 4 years in the past, however they’ve managed to enhance the colour screens fairly a bit for the reason that starting, and I believe it’s gotten to the purpose the place some people don’t thoughts just a few tradeoffs for the advantages of shade.
Kobo Libra Color
It’s exhausting to belief on-line opinions nowadays, however when you have a look at the opinions at Kobo and at Amazon, the Libra Color is off to a superb begin. It has a 4.6-star ranking with 78 opinions by way of Trustpilot on Kobo’s web site. The black model has a 4.2-star ranking on Amazon with 47 rankings; the white model has a seperate web page for some purpose, and it has a 4.5-star ranking with 30 opinions.
Critiques apart, what I discover most shocking is how a lot chatter there may be concerning the Libra Color on the Kobo subreddit. Because it was launched, there’s been far more posts concerning the Libra Color than different Kobo fashions, together with the opposite two new fashions that had been launched on the similar time.
Kobo Clara Color
Of the 2 new shade fashions, the Libra Color appears to be far more common, however the Clara Color is getting some possitive opinions too.
At Amazon, it’s listed on two seperate pages for some silly purpose. On one web page it has a 4.3-star ranking with 17 opinions, and on the opposite web page it has a 4.5-star ranking with 8 opinions. At Kobo, it has a 4.7-star ranking with 35 opinions by Trustpilot.
What’s attention-grabbing is the Kobo Clara BW with an everyday black and white display has much less general opinions thus far, which might recommend they’re promoting extra of the colour mannequin. The Clara BW has 14 opinions on Kobo’s web site, with a 4.6-star ranking. At Amazon it has a 4.7-star ranking, additionally with 14 rankings.
It’s nonetheless too early to inform if shade E Ink goes to grow to be as common and common E Ink, however shade seems to be trending up. And it’s not simply Kobo, both. Again in March I posted about how Onyx’s Notice Air3 Colour was outselling the common black and white Notice Air3 on Amazon, and that’s nonetheless the case 3 months later.
