kobo clara hd review

The Kobo Clara HD is available directly from Kobo for £109.99 in the UK and $129.99 in the US. You can’t, however, rotate the screen on the Clara HD, so you are limited to portrait mode. The Clara HD  charges via a micro-USB connector, which is included in the box. There are icons for managing the device’s backlighting, Wi-Fi, and battery life, and options for searching your device’s memory or syncing your books bought from the Kobo Store to the cloud. PCWorld helps you navigate the PC ecosystem to find the products you want and the advice you need to get the job done. Buried inside of the Kobo Clara HD is a 1GHz Freescale Solo Lite processor and 512MB of RAM.

The Clara HD’s front lighting bests the Paperwhite as well.

Once we started our first book, The Female Persuasion, on the Kobo Clara HD, we were hooked. Page transitions — which can be painfully slow on older ebook readers — are nearly instantaneous. It has a 6-inch Carta E-Ink touchscreen with 300ppi - so the screen reading is better than any bookpage I've ever read. Page turns, as well as all other input, are made by tapping the Clara HD’s display. The 300 DPI E Ink screen produces crisp text and sharp images.

In fact, under the Activity section, which gives you additional reading stats, you can win awards based on how you read and engage with your book. Tap it, and here you can access articles and websites sent from Pocket on your laptop or computer’s browser. The Kobo Clara HD looks like the average ebook reader. A more likely scenario is that you’ll simply outgrow the Kobo Clara HD over time and want to upgrade to an ebook reader with a larger display or more features. Kobo offers useful visualizations on your reading progress. There's just one big problem with the Clara HD: the Kindle.

Ebook reader technology has come a long way, but Amazon has claimed the space as king with its Kindle devices.

For an E-Ink device designed to serve up text, this is a pretty zippy chipset. It comes with 8GB of memory [no need for a memory card] which means it can hold over 5,000 e-Books. Check out our guide to the best ebook readers for more.

Somrata Sarkar, Senior Staff Writer Its eight white LEDs provide more consistent illumination than the latest-generation Kindle Paperwhite's front lighting can. Despite costing only a few bucks more than Amazon’s Kindle Paperwhite, the Rakuten Kobo Clara HD is a superior e-reader in almost every way. That said, some people want nothing to do with Amazon, and Kobo’s selection of books is growing every day. At a little under 6 ounces, about the weight of an iPhone 8 Plus, it’s the lightest ebook reader we’ve used.

If you’re open to spending more money, we recommend taking a look at the Kobo Aura One or the 2017 Amazon Kindle Oasis. Amazon Kindle Oasis vs. Kindle Paperwhite: Which e-book reader is best for you? But there is one glaring omission on the Clara HD, and it’s Overdrive integration.

Add to that the textured plastic back, and the Clara HD is a comfortable hold, even one-handed, for long periods of time. The bezel around the screen is thin too, so you’re not confronted by a thick, bulky border. It’s a simple yet handy feature that offers a lot of insight into your overall reading habits. The Clara HD costs $130 and it’s available now from Kobo’s website. And at a little under 6 ounces, about the weight of an iPhone 8 Plus, the Clara HD is one of the lightest ebook readers we’ve used. The Clara HD also has an Activity mode that lets you track reading time, average minutes per session, and number of books read. The same can’t be said, however, for images: the Clara HD displays photos at a much higher resolution. UK retailers includes John Lewis, Currys PC World and Argos.

Yes, you can manually add Overdrive titles to the Clara HD, but it’s an involved process requiring you to connect your ebook reader to your computer each time you want to check out a book. However, with its Wi-Fi turned off and its lighting set to no less than 70 percent I found, after approximately two hours of reading a day, spread over a seven-day period, the e-reader’s battery was still sitting at around 60-percent capacity. An additional case (not included) for the Kobo Clara HD can also be found for £24.99 or $29.99 in the US. A single charge should last you for a few weeks if you're a light user. We’d really like to start seeing USB Type-C charging ports in ebook readers, since that’s what many phones and laptops use and it’d make things simple if only one cable was needed, but even the most expensive ebook readers still use MicroUSB.

You can increase or decrease the light's brightness by simply dragging a finger up or down on the left edge of the screen, which is convenient, as you don't have to navigate through a separate menu. Flip the Kobo Clara HD over and you’ll find a textured back that’s gently curved to fit perfectly in the palm of your hand. Carta e-ink is a type of e-ink that allows high resolution text and reduces the need to refresh the page.

The Clara HD definitely wins on hardware. Note: We may earn a commission when you buy through links on our site, at no extra cost to you.

Apart from its 300ppi 6in screen, The Kobo Clara HD offers Wi-Fi connectivity, and 8GB of internal storage, which should allow you to stow away 6000 books. Amazon’s book-borrowing service explained, These are the best cheap 4K TV deals for September 2020, Best Prime Day Kindle deals 2020: What to expect, The best iPad, Samsung Galaxy, Fire, and Surface tablet deals for September 2020, These are the best Samsung Galaxy deals for September 2020, The best tablets for small businesses in 2020, The Snapdragon 750G is Qualcomm’s latest 5G-enabled chipset for midtier phones, T-Mobile joins the Hispanic Heritage Month celebration. All rights reserved. Nintendo Switch vs. Switch Lite: Which is better? weight) of the font you've chosen in the advanced settings. It’s a feature first introduced on the Kobo Aura One that allows you to download library books directly to your ebook reader for a short period of time, but it’s nowhere to to be found on the Clara HD. Somrata researches and writes about the best tech deals to help readers make smart, informed buying decisions.

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