But I was most drawn to its compact, comfortable-to-hold body and long-lasting battery life.
Price and Availability
The Kobo Clara Colour is available to order now on Rakuten’s website.
The eReader retails for $149.99.
Jerome Thomas / How-To Geek
The Elipsa 2E’s 10.3-inch screen would feel massive next to this compact gear.
At a mere 6 ounces, the Kobo Clara Colour felt featherlight, and I could take itanywhere.
Its IPX8 waterproof rating means anywhere, including reading poolside or while in the bathtub.
The Kobo Clara Colour features a 6-inch E ink Kaleido 3 screen, 16 GB of storage, adjustable color temperature, and weeks of battery life, all in a small package you can take anywhere.
With a streamlined body, the Kobo Clara Colour is the height of simplicity.
My unit came with a sleep cover, but the eReader doesn’t come with one by default.
It’s an add-on purchase ($30).
The Kobo Clara Colour features a 6-inch E ink Kaleido 3 screen, 16 GB of storage, adjustable color temperature, and weeks of battery life, all in a small package you can take anywhere.
TheSleepCoveralso doubles as a foldable stand.
It was a nice feature that made highlighting text more organized since I could color-code sections.
So it’s a major plus for heavy highlighters and annotators.
Jerome Thomas / How-To Geek
The simple, streamlined reading experience compared to other eReaders was welcome.
But it wasn’t just its simplicity that I liked.
The top reason I’d buy the Kobo Clara Colour was its slim, comfortable build.
Jerome Thomas / How-To Geek
It was a pleasure to hold.
Nor did I have to prop the Clara Colour on a pillow to read because of its clunky weight.
That said, if your heart is on a larger display, the Clara Colour isnotfor you.
Jerome Thomas / How-To Geek
A smaller screen has limitations, after all.
Specifically, browsing Kobo Plus options was a black hole of what looked to be self-published romances.
(If that’s your thing, awesome.
Jerome Thomas / How-To Geek
For me, it was a pain in the butt to sift through.)
you’re free to alsolink an OverDrive accountto borrow ebooks from your local library.
However, note that these may be limited sinceOverDrive technically shut downand no longer updates its catalog of books.
Jerome Thomas / How-To Geek
After that, I didn’t need to charge the eReader again.
It lasted a full two weeks and hit about 20% on the 14th day.
