![]() ![]() Kobo readers are studded with extras, such as a page that displays your reading speed as you go - an entirely pointless gimmick, but one which leaves you thinking that you really are rather clever fellow as you tear through a pot-boiler at 400 pages an hour. The massive 6.8in screen is as sharp as Amazon’s best, and it delivers books with a pizzazz that Amazon’s readers lack. The £139 H20 is the first ebook reader you can take into the bath more than once.Īs ‘straight’ reading gadgets, Kobo’s top-end e-readers are always great, and the H20 is no exception. For any die-hard bath readers, there is no contest. Last year, Kobo came up with the Kobo Aura HD, which the upstart billed as ‘the Porsche of e-readers’, months before Amazon updated its Kindle range with a reader just as sharp. It came out hot, soapy and fresh, and after a wipe I was able to start leafing through my book at the exact same point I put it down – just with an added fragrant whiff of whatever it is that dishwasher tablets smell of.įew underdogs are pluckier than Canadian ebook upstart Kobo: somehow the firm keeps upstaging ebook behemoth Amazon with headline-grabbing e-reader gadgets – despite being largely famous as the maker of readers you can buy in WH Smith. I was surprised when it survived my improvised test – a few minutes on the eco-wash cycle in my dishwasher (note: this is not recommended). I’ve found this estimate to be accurate.The massive 6.8in screen on the Kobo Aura H20 is as sharp as Amazon’s best, and it delivers books with a pizzazz that Amazon’s readers lack Oh well, at least you won’t have to worry about the battery conking out mid session, it’s rated to last up to two months with moderate use. Flipping through such pages can be a lag-filled nightmare. Just don’t expect this e-reader to render them quickly, particularly if you’re reading graphics-laden PDFs or examining high-resolution JPEGs. Like the rest of the Kobo, this model can read a broad range of document types, including CBR, CBZ, EPUB, EPUB3, HTML, MOBI, PDF, RTF, and TXT, as well as BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, and TIFF image files. Still, the only time that might be a concern is if your reading habits entail loading up on larger files, such as PDFs. ![]() The Kobo Aura Edition 2 provides 4GB of internal storage unlike some of the other Kobo models, there’s no microSD card slot that would allow you to add to that. The Kobo Aura Edition 2’s backlight is much brighter at maximum brightness than the Paperwhite’s at its max, but there’s not much of a difference at the lower levels that most people will actually use. I haven’t liked any of the Kobo’s backlights, which render text murky when they’re cranked up. The Paperwhite’s page transitions seem smoother, too. I read Earnest Hemingway’s For Whom The Bell Tolls on both the Aura Edition 2 and the 2015 Kindle Paperwhite, and while I didn’t experience eyestrain after reading the Kobo, I couldn’t get past how poor the Edition 2’s text looked in comparison to Amazon’s e-reader. Those e-readers boast 300 ppi resolution, as do all three of Amazon’s best Kindles. ![]() It’s considerably lower than the top-shelf Kobo Aura One and the Kobo Glo HD, which costs just $10 more. The 212 ppi resolution isn’t impressive either. The Edition 2’s display is adequate, but it is neither as bright nor as legible as other similarly priced e-readers. ![]()
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