Kobo Libra Color - The Review 

Thank you for another excellent tour and review. As a long-time Kindle user, I only bought the Libra Colour because Amazon doesn’t support Libby in Canada. I have been surprised by how much better the Kobo UI and hardware is. Kobo’s Kaleido is brighter and better than the Boox NA3C I returned last year, and the battery life is much better as well. The magnetic pen storage is excellent with the new notebook case, the power and page buttons are excellent, and the active stylus rarely needs charging. I’m not an artist, so the lack of pen tilt isn’t a big shortcoming to me. My Paperwhite Signature and Scribe are now languishing in a drawer, and I am waiting desperately for an equally improved Ellpsa v3, which could be my magic bullet in a 10” e-ink tablet.

Thank you so much for this video. I got so many information out of it before deciding to make the purchase.

Great video! I especially love the battery comparison, which is incredibly useful.

🙋‍♂Hi Jeffrey! So well explained, you clearly deserve more "Subscribers". Always extremely pleased with your content.👍 Kudos from NYC.🗽

thank you for your careful and thoughtful review sorry for typos i am recovering from a stroke

Have you tried advanced Beta settings (using devmodeon trick) and adjusting "I ink trottle percentage?" I wonder if this will result in better contrast similar to the "dark color enhancement" setting on the boox tab mini C you describe in your color screen comparison video. Excellent videos!

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Thanks for your thorough review! I didn't quite catch why you compared B&W Kobo with color BigMe device instead of comparing Kobos together. I believe it would be better to compare 2 devices with the same UI.

Great video!! Do you think the darker background when the light is turned off reduces the ability to read well? I feel like a good contrast is really helpful and easier on the eyes so I’m worried that this would be a big setback from my current Kobo Clara 2e 🤔

Hello Jeffrey , Thanks for the video. Is the Bigme monitor review complete?

Thanks for the indepth review. I have had my KLC for about 5 days now, and overall I am very happy with it. I am not focusing on the note-taking at all, but I really like to be able to annotate and highlight my ebooks in colour. Are there other products out there that may compete with this? Sure! But I am not suffering from buyer's remorse yet, and I also know that in a few years the low resolution on colour (150 ppi) that this device has will look very dated. That's fine in my book, I am happy to be on this Kobo wagon for now, and then we will see what my next upgrade will be in 4-5 years. For context: My former ebook reader was the PocketBook Touch Lux 4 which has been very faithful, but very slow when it comes to adding notes/highlights.

This is a great review, thank you so much!! You mentioned the screen is darker (than BW e-ink), and the front light really hurts battery life. My question is: for the use case of reading in dark mode, indoors, at night, does it work well with minimal front light (say ~25%) ? I ask as someone coming from LCD/LED tablets, who has never used e-ink.

Thanks for an excellent and credible review! I use the 1st gen. Kobo Libra H2O and love the Overdrive integration you praised. Can you explain why Overdrive interfaces with only one library whereas Libby can support multiple libraries simultaneously? (I use Libby on my cell.) Primarily, I'm a reader & less note taker but am tempted/intrigued by the KLC even though I have few complaints re my gen.1 device.

Do you think Boox is going to come out with a entry level color reader with note taking? Maybe a notes version of the tab mini C? Where would the Tab Mini C rank amongst your color e-reader collection?

The grain effect is very different depending on how close you hold your device when reading, if you hold it close up then it's much more notable than if you read at arm's length where it's fine. Also, the Moire effect should be touched on for anyone interested in manga: rainbow banding is VERY visible, particularly anywhere where there is a crosshatching effect. And it's not particularly pleasant on the eyes, I'd honestly rate it as a far bigger problem than the grain if you read greyscale/BW content like manga.

Very comprehensive. If this was a Kindle I would buy it immediately to replace my Kindle Oasis.

i have the libra color. i like the fact you can write on it. ido have a kinle scribe and its great but its much larger. i didput a cut to fit page of paperwhite to improve the writing experience abit. i just have to figure out how to get my kindlebooks transferred to it.

As I understand, one of the problems with adding WACOM layer is that it'll make color screen less sharp looking, so there might be a reason to use the charged stylus.

Im on a crossroad about buy a New device. You ser, I used to have a nova air c, but I sold it to buy a tab ultra, most because of productivity, and cause this and ultra C arent on my country. So, now I have this tab ultra, I miss the Colour of the nova air c, and, when kobo libra Colour came out, I started to think in purchase one, but, when I think about the ecosystem of boox (cause I love they versality), I can make a decisión. So, my options now are to keep the ultra, and buy a libra Colour mostly as a ereader (I use to read cómic and manga), or sell the tab ultra and get a tab mini c... What do you think? Your comparison table of features make me think about it hardly!