The Kindle Colorsoft provides a powerful colour display, but it surely's not for everybody. Happily, in case you don't need to lock your self into the Amazon ecosystem, then Kobo Libra Shade is a superb various that's on sale for an all-time low of $199.99 ($20 off) at Amazon and Goal for Black Friday. You may as well purchase it for a similar value from Rakuten Kobo, and in case you purchase it with a $50 present card, the retailer provides a $10 credit score that's good for books, kinds, and audiobooks.
Personally, I'm an enormous fan of the Kobo Libra colour. The waterproof e-reader options the identical E Ink colour expertise used within the Kindle Colorsoft, together with the identical crisp 300ppi decision, which is halved in colour mode. There are some refined variations although. For instance, the Colorsoft display appears extra vibrant and impartial than the Kobo's, and my colleague Andrew Liszewski finally most popular it. Nevertheless, this doesn’t make the colour inferior. Its 7-inch display is heat and vivid, and the Kobo provides an adjustable daylight slider if you wish to change the hue.
Nevertheless, maybe the Libra Shade's greatest promoting factors are the extra options it provides, which come at a less expensive value. It prices $80 lower than the Colorsoft at $199.99, however in contrast to the Colorsoft, the Libra Shade provides stylus help (although you'll must buy the stylus individually). It's useful, particularly if you wish to spotlight passages of what you're studying. Moreover, the Libra Shade has bodily web page flip buttons, which I feel makes for a extra intuitive e-reader to make use of.
Libra Shade additionally provides some software program benefits, together with native help for the Pocket Learn Later app, so you possibly can learn articles offline. You possibly can even borrow e-books from the library at no cost immediately on Kobo, due to its built-in Overdrive help. Clearly, the primary draw back is that Kobo doesn't natively help Kindle books. That stated, you possibly can nonetheless convert your Kindle library and browse them on the Libra Shade, though it does require a number of additional steps.