![]() ![]() READ NEXT: Our full round-up of the best eBook readers Kobo Clara 2E review: Price and competitionĪll of this will set you back £130. It’s also IPX8 waterproof protected, meaning it can be dunked in two metres of water for up to an hour, and it features Comfort Light Pro – a system that lets you adjust the brightness and temperature to ensure you’re not left buzzing from blue light when you want some shut-eye. There’s 16GB of storage, which is enough for thousands of books. It supports audiobooks, but only ones bought via Kobo’s own store in a homage to Amazon’s worst qualities. It also works with the Overdrive system, meaning you can borrow from your local library without leaving the house.Ĭomicbooks in the CBZ and CBR format are also supported, as are images saved as JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP or TIFF – albeit, only in black and white due to the greyscale e-ink display. That means it’ll support EPUB, EPUB3, PDF, FlePub and MOBI ebooks, as well as TXT, HTML and RTF texts. The Kobo Clara 2E is a 6in ebook reader with support for pretty much any format you can throw at it – with the exception of anything bought for Kindle. Kobo Clara 2E review: What you need to know Kindle’s arch-rival just keeps on trucking, and the Kobo Clara 2E is another solid ebook reader for those not fully enmeshed in the Amazon ecosystem.ĭepending on your perspective, the lack of support for Amazon’s proprietary book format is either bad or irrelevant, but one thing is for sure: without the shadow of the Kindle hovering over it, the Kobo Clara 2E would be a no-brainer for book fans.Īs it is, it all comes down to what you think of the Bezos behemoth and how much of your ebook collection is already sitting on virtual Amazon shelves. Considering the number of businesses that Amazon has successfully bulldozed in its quest for internet domination, you’ve got to hand it to Kobo.
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