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    Rakuten has a trio of new Kobo ereaders, including the company’s first two with color displays. On Wednesday, the company revealed the $220 Kobo Libra Colour and $150 Clara Colour alongside the monochrome $130 Clara BW. You can preorder them today, ahead of their April 30 launch. The Kobo Libra Colour has a seven-inch E Ink Kaleido 3 display, which should have a noticeable improvement with 16 levels of grayscale, 4,096 colors and 30 percent better color saturation than E Ink’s last-gen tech. The...

  • Kobo’s New Color E-readers Might Make You Finally Ditch Your Kindle

    Kobo is the first of the three major e-book companies—which includes Rakuten Kobo, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble—to take the plunge and offer a colored display on some of its e-readers. The company recently announced the new Kobo Clara Colour and the Kobo Libra Colour, which are available to pre-order already and will release on April 30.

  • Kobo’s new e-readers have a huge feature Kindles don’t – colour

    Rakuten Kobo has announced its first ever colour e-readers, the Kobo Libra Colour and Kobo Clara Colour, alongside the more traditional black and white Clara BW. Both the Kobo Libra Colour and the Kobo Clara Colour are notable for featuring E Ink Kaleido 3 displays, which can switch from a regular 300ppi monochrome output to a 150ppi colour one. The latter mode promises to make up for a relative lack of sharpness to bring book covers and illustrations to life. The Libra Colour display is...