Kobo Libra Colour: Good Optics

Hi Everyone!

Curious about the Kobo Libra Colour? Want to know if you should look at it or the Kindle Colorsoft?
How is the colour e-ink experience? Is it any good for reading PDFs on and annotating them? Join me as I conduct my full review of this gem in Kobo’s e-reader line up…yielding answers to those questions and many more!

Enjoy

*Note: The paste option is available on the Kobo Libra Colour. To access this feature, simply 'long press' on the screen with your finger and select "paste" after copying something.


0:00 Intro

0:53 Some Background

1:27 E-book Experience

3:30 Text and Screen Clarity

4:38 Frontlight

5:17 Does it have PWM?

5:45 Black and White/Colour Image Quality

6:17 What the Kobo Stylus 2 Adds

7:23 That's Pretty Cool!

8:02 Writing Experience

10:08 How Kobo Deals with Notes on the Page

11:08 Image Squashing on Some E-books?

11:58 The PDF Experience

13:33 Dark Mode in PDFs

14:16 Any PDF Zoom or Cropping Modes?

14:33 I Suppose One Could Use the Dictionary Search Instead…

14:52 Why the PDF Experience is Good/Unique

16:10 For Kobo Software Engineers (AND You Too)

16:54 PDF Annotation Exports

17:13 Notebook Modes and Basic Notebook

20:08 Basic Notebook Export Results

20:25 The Advanced Notebook

25:00 Advanced Notebook Exports

26:03 A Word on Ergonomics…

26:36 Kobo Libra Colour vs Kindle Colorsoft

28:30 Overall Impression

30:45 IF You’re Listening…