Rakuten Kobo late announced its first - ever colour e - readers . The launch include two modeling , theKobo Libra Colour and the Kobo Clara Colour .
The Clara Colour is a traditional style e - proofreader , while the Libra Colour incorporates a digital notetaking feature film for annotating text and jot down theme in colour .
Keep reading to learn how the Kobo Clara Colour compare to Amazon ’s popularKindle Paperwhite .
The Kobo Clara Colour has a colour display
The Kobo Clara Colour ’s standout feature is its colour display . The 6 - inchE Ink Kaleido 3display is full - colour , making it idealistic for flipping through comics and reading books with illustrations .
The colour display also cook it light to view and organize highlighted passing at a glance as you’re able to foreground words in various colour .
The Kindle Paperwhite has a slenderly larger 6.8 - in 16 - spirit level greyscale show .
Both the Paperwhite and the Clara Colour support a sharp 300ppi output when catch in black and white , with the Kobo dropping to 150ppi for vividness .
Both einsteinium - readers support adjustable strong light , with the Paperwhite allowing you to set a schedule for wanton changes and the Clara Colour automatically reducing blue light throughout the day with its ComfortLight Pro feature .
The Kindle Paperwhite has a longer battery life
The Kindle Paperwhite offer up to 10 weeks of barrage fire life history based on 30 minutes of reading a twenty-four hours with wireless connections turn off and the light set at 13 . The Kobo Clara Colour can deliver up to 42 twenty-four hour period of battery lifetime found on 30 minutes of reading a day with wireless link switch off and the front luminosity rig to 30 % brightness .
If we simulate the luminance scope used in these tests are like , the Kindle Paperwhite offers a 67 % longer battery lifetime or 28 additional day of indication .
The Kobo Clara Colour weighs less in your bag
Both the Kobo Clara Colour and the Kindle Paperwhite are plan to be svelte and lightweight , offer a more travelling - well-disposed alternative to stuffing three softback book in your carry - on when you go on holiday .
The Clara Colour is the small and more lightweight of the two due east - readers at 174 gigabyte and 112 x 160 x 9.2 mm . However , the Kindle Paperwhite is the slimmer of the two at 205 thou and 125 x 174 x 8.1 mm .
Both gimmick are rated IPX8 , making them splashproof enough to withstand some poolside reading .
The Kindle app has a larger library of books
If a wide multifariousness of Christian Bible and audiobooks is your priority , you ca n’t beat the Kindle ’s library of more than six million titles ( as of March 2018 ) . Amazon has n’t shared any prescribed numbers since 2018 , but it ’s likely this bit has increased over the last six years .
Kindle users can also chit-chat hearable to purchase audiobooks , while the society ’s Kindle Unlimited subscription allows users to access a wide raiment of e - books , magazine and audiobooks for a monthly fee .
The Kobo app , meanwhile , presently offers more than five million title to opt from , along with a big collection of audiobooks .
