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Kobo announces its first color e-readers (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Kobo announces its first color e-readers

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Both use E Ink’s latest Kaleido color screen technology, which has subtle, pastel-like hues and drops from a 300ppi grayscale resolution to 150ppi when you view content in color.

I had to check just how bad 150ppi would be when dropping down the resolution for color.

A 24" Full HD monitor has a PPI of 92. So it's actually okay.

I'm still using my old Kobo Aura HD (now roughly 11 years old) and the battery still lasts over a month. The screen was already decent back then, but a bit sluggish. I just checked, the old one has 265 ppi. Maybe it's not time for an upgrade yet :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Whoah...color!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

with extras like [..] no lockscreen ads

What the fuck? Why is that an extra not just the default? It's great that this product isn't riddled with ads, but that's like saying it's great a burger is not made of human shit; it's crazy that anyone would tolerate a shit-burger in the first place.

Maybe ads are normal in the e-reader space for some reason, but that's just insane to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I think it's only Amazon that does lock screen ads but since they have two-thirds of the market share globally (and a near monopoly in the US where the Verge is based) then whatever they do in the e-reader space is "normal"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I like my Kobo, but wish it had a bit better of a storefront. I want to get my books from more than just the kobo store. Overdrive support is nice. It sometimes loses my page just like a real book, ironically.

Still, I find myself still letting it collect dust due to it's limited storefront and long book checkout times at the library. Physical books and newspapers are a bit bigger and stable software-wise.

I really wish epaper displays were more common. It's a really cool technology. I'd love an inexpensive epaper monitor or maybe an alarm clock?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Install Calibre on a computer and use that. Browse online sailing forums for your favourite books and new releases. Then support the authors financially by buying their paper books directly from them or their publishers.

If you buy your books from them digitally use a DRM remover (Like the plugin available on Calibre) so you can forever own your books and move them to any device you want in any format you want. Forever.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

I'm trusting y'all to let me know if it's worth it