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Rakuten Kobo is launching its first color e-readers, the Kobo Libra Colour and the Kobo Clara Colour. Both use\u00a0E Ink\u2019s\u00a0latest\u00a0Kaleido\u00a0color\u00a0screen\u00a0technology, which has subtle, pastel-like hues and drops from a 300ppi grayscale resolution to 150ppi when you view content in color.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
I\u2019ll be testing both e-readers soon, but so far, they look like small upgrades to Kobo\u2019s existing e-readers. That\u2019s not a bad thing, though! The seven-inch Kobo Libra 2 is my favorite e-reader<\/a> outside of Amazon\u2019s ecosystem, offering the Kindle Paperwhite\u2019s<\/a> IPX8 waterproof design but with extras like physical page-turning buttons, no lockscreen ads, and more storage. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n The $219.99 Kobo Libra Colour retains all of those features but is also now compatible with the Kobo Stylus 2<\/a>, just like the Kobo Elipsa 2E<\/a>. However, it\u2019s $30 more expensive than the Kobo Libra 2, and you\u2019ll have to buy the stylus separately for $69.99. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n The $149.99 Kobo Clara Colour is slightly more distinct from its closest sibling, the $139.99 Kobo Clara 2E<\/a>. It offers the same six-inch display and IPX8 waterproof design but now comes with 16GB of storage, as well as an improved processor. I hope so; the Kobo Clara 2E\u2019s sluggish performance was one of my chief complaints.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Kobo also introduced an upgraded black-and-white Kobo Clara BW, with the same storage and processor upgrades, for $129.99.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n