My Favorite E-reader Is At Its Lowest Price Ever For Black Friday

The colour e-reader is $30 disconnected for Black Friday.

Amazon’s Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition mightiness beryllium heavy discounted for Black Friday, but we’d reason that nan Kobo Libra Colour is really nan amended action for those not already embedded successful nan Amazon ecosystem. It offers much features for somewhat little — and correct now, nan colour e-reader has returned to its all-time debased of $199.99 ($30 off) astatine Amazon, Target, and Kobo’s online storefront.

If I didn’t ain truthful galore Kindle books, nan Libra Colour would beryllium my go-to e-reader. In fact, of each nan dozens I’ve tested, it’s my favorite. Like nan Colorsoft, it features a 7-inch, 300ppi e-ink show that drops to 150ppi erstwhile viewing color. The colors aren’t rather arsenic vivid arsenic they are connected Amazon’s e-reader, but nan graphics still look lukewarm and bright, and nan adjustable earthy ray slider helps. It’s besides waterproof — truthful you don’t person to interest if it starts raining aliases you’re reference successful nan bath — and you get 32GB of storage, which is plentifulness for books and audiobooks.

Somewhat surprisingly, nan Kobo Libra Color offers immoderate genuinely adjuvant features you won’t find connected nan Colorsoft. The colour ebook scholar features intuitive, beingness page-turn buttons and compatibility pinch nan Kobo Stylus 2, truthful you tin jot down notes while reading. It besides includes built-in notebook templates for journaling and tin moreover person handwriting to typed matter (or lick mathematics equations), meaning you tin usage it arsenic some an e-reader and a mini notebook.

The e-reader besides supports a overmuch wider scope of record formats than nan Colorsoft, including EPUB files, and you tin prevention articles offline pinch Instapaper. The only existent downside is that it doesn’t natively support Kindle books. If you’re consenting to put successful a small other time, though, it is imaginable to person your Kindle library.

Read our Kobo Libra Colour review.