The time has come for a comparability evaluation between the Kindle Colorsoft and the Kobo Libra Color. Each have 7″ shade E Ink screens with 300 ppi for BW and 150 ppi for shade, however the two gadgets are dissimilar in plenty of methods.
Usually, there are a variety of variations between Kindles and Kobos, however I’m not going to rehash all of that once more right here. I’m going to concentrate on what makes them distinctive as ereaders with shade E Ink screens.
{Hardware}
The Libra Color has some {hardware} benefits with the addition of web page buttons and stylus help. It additionally has a rotation sensor, and the ability button is positioned on the again and it’s recessed so it’s arduous to by accident press.
The Libra Color is on the market in black or white, whereas the Colorsort is just accessible in black.
The Kindle Colorsoft is actually a Kindle Paperwhite Signature Version with a shade display, so it has the SE upgrades, which incorporates wi-fi charging and an auto-brightness sensor. The ability button is positioned on the underside edge and it stands proud so it’s straightforward to by accident press (and it occurs usually).
Each have USB-C ports, with 32GB of space for storing, and each gadgets are waterproof. Each have Bluetooth for listening to audiobooks, however solely the Kindle helps text-to-speech (VoiceView).
The Screens
The Colorsoft has a flush entrance display and the Libra Color has an indented display. Due to that I believed the Kobo would have the sting in display readability, however surprisingly the Kindle’s display appears to be like higher by way of total readability and shade even with the added flush layer.
Amazon should’ve completed slightly one thing additional to make colours seem darker and extra colourful. Ghosting (afterimage results) can also be much less of a difficulty on the Kindle’s display. For instance, when scrolling via the library on the Kobo the quilt photographs usually overlap with earlier photographs, however that doesn’t occur on the Colorsoft.
The frontlights are vastly completely different on the 2 items that I’ve. The frontlight on the Kobo is yellower on the cool setting, and darker with the nice and cozy setting. However frontlights range a lot who is aware of what you’ll get from one to the following, so let’s simply depart it at that.
Content material
Amazon has an enormous benefit in the case of shade content material, with a big choice of comedian books, kids’s books, and magazines which might be formatted for Kindles. Kobo’s shade content material choice is pitiful by comparability, and the actual fact the Libra Color downloads decrease decision variations of comics isn’t serving to issues any.
Nevertheless, the Kobo has the benefit of supporting comedian codecs (CBR and CBZ) natively, so sideloading comics goes to be so much simpler on the Libra Color. PDFs additionally present shade with out having to leap via hoops; with the Colorsoft you need to use Ship-to-Kindle to view PDFs in shade, that are not PDFs after Amazon converts them to KFX.
Opinion
General, I just like the design of the Kobo higher with the web page buttons on the aspect and the ability button out of the best way, however I feel the display and the frontlight look higher on the Kindle (minus the yellow band).
The Kobo has an enormous benefit with the ability to use a stylus if you wish to take notes, offered they don’t disappear when turning pages. Kobo’s stylus prices a small fortune, however cheaper MPP styli work as effectively.
To me, the construct high quality of the Kobo feels rather less good with a budget plastic materials that Kobo at all times insists on utilizing, however the flush entrance display on the Colorsoft is a fingerprint magnet that at all times appears to be like soiled.
If you need a shade ereader each gadgets are adequate in their very own methods, offered you’re okay with the limitations of shade E Ink, and every gadget’s respective platforms.
The Worth
At $219, the Kobo Libra Color is cheaper than the Kindle Colorsoft, which Amazon sells for $279. Nevertheless, Amazon gives 20% off with trade-ins, they usually are inclined to take extra off throughout gross sales, so you may get higher offers at sure instances.
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