Libra Colour So far I love my Colour Kobo. What about you?

[Cootey]

Originally Posted by Didier

I too truly do enjoy my KLC and don’t regret the purchase.
I have sold my Libra 2
Didier

Glad to hear another voice in the love camp. Do you find you use your KLC more than your previous Libra 2? Maybe I’m still in the honeymoon phase, but that’s been my experience.

[JSWolf]

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[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The forthcoming Kindle Colorsoft is going to blow away the crappy Kaledio 3 overlay as it's going to be using the new Gallery 3 screen.

Looks like it will be Kaleido, after all.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Looks like it will be Kaleido, after all.

Yes, it does look that way.

[1ily]

Where did you see that it uses a Kaleido screen? The article I read was vague on the technical aspects

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by 1ily

Where did you see that it uses a Kaleido screen? The article I read was vague on the technical aspects

There is a listing up on Amazon UK.

You can read about it at https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=364116

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by 1ily

Where did you see that it uses a Kaleido screen? The article I read was vague on the technical aspects

Color will be 150 ppi, instead of 300. That means Kaleido.

[Apollyon202]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Color will be 150 ppi, instead of 300. That means Kaleido.

Exactly. Amazon could spice up the competition with a Gallery 3 screen, but oh well.
I was worried that Amazon doesn't come up with any new stuff and Kobo continues this Kaleido 3 nonsense.
But this means they have to come out with an even better tech to push down Amazon. At least there will be competition, yay!

[Cootey]

I’m not sure why the price I saw on 𝕏 was so low (mentioned above), but I was just taking a look at the reMarkable Pro website (https://remarkable.com/store/remarkable-paper/pro) and its base price is $629. It has the Gallery 3 display from eInk, but its dpi is only 229. Here are the specs:

Display
Canvas Color display (based on E Ink Gallery™ 3)
11.8” (4:3 aspect ratio)
2160 x 1620 resolution (229 pixels per inch)
Palm rejection
Adjustable reading light

I realize that many people here want to see higher res screens, but the KLC is so affordable compared to other color screen ereaders. reMarkable went for the top of the line eInk display, but you can buy a PlayStation 5 Pro for the cost of that cover bundle ($779).

Kobo gave us a low cost color ereader. The sacrifice was in using the older eInk Kaleido screen. I’ve used a KLC for months and I’m fine with the trade-off. Considering that most color images are displayed on their own page (even with manga), the lower resolution rarely affects the books that I’m reading with their 300dpi b&w text.

Update: Compared to the Kindle Colorsoft which seems to be using the same tech with the same specs and costs $279, the Kobo Libra Colour is still the best deal on a color eInk eReader.

[rashkae]

Originally Posted by Apollyon202

Exactly. Amazon could spice up the competition with a Gallery 3 screen, but oh well.
I was worried that Amazon doesn't come up with any new stuff and Kobo continues this Kaleido 3 nonsense.
But this means they have to come out with an even better tech to push down Amazon. At least there will be competition, yay!

While Gallery 3 looks amazing in screen shots, actual usage and software finicking needed to make it work has been, by all reports, abysmal. I'm sure someone will rush to put a Gallery 3 on the market as soon as people don't immediate put it away in disgust. (A few have already tried,/failed.)

I think developing Gallery 3 was, in fact, Amazon's game plan, (I don't remember where I saw this, probably Good E-reader rumor, which means, it's as reliable as pulled from my backside.) But clearly, the popularity of Kaleido 3 has forced them to quickly put a device in the market. You can't put the cart before the horse.

[compurandom]

Originally Posted by Cootey

When I annotate a sideloaded book on my Elipsa, none of those annotations show up on my KLC, and vice versa.

On the kobo, nothing sideloaded ever goes to cloud.

The kepub annotations are easy to back up, you just can't restore them or copy them to another device. What you can do is view the backed up copy.

To restore them, someone would have to poke around in the database and figure out how to re-add them to the database.

There is a third party (subscription) app that kobo supports that will let you back up annotations to the cloud, but I don't know if it lets you restore them. I glanced at it, but it didn't turn me on enough to try it.

Personally I don't care, because if I want to save annotations, viewing the backed up copy on my computer is good enough. It would be sweet if calibre could import them for use in its own viewer, but someone would have to write that.

[gforgiraffe39935]

I am surprised to say we love the Kobo Libra Colour! I thought it would be as bad as the BOOX Mini Tab C I had, nasty ghosting and blurry black text. I almost always have my GlowLight turned on for any E-reader, usually 50-90% because I need it for my vision. With the Kobo Libra Colour, in a dark room with no light, 3-6% light is acceptable. In a normal living room with 60 watt lamps, I need it at 100% but the battery doesn't even drain any faster than my 3rd Gen Oasis or old NOOK GlowLight 4s did!

Black and white text looks like 200 PPI when light is at 100% with Natural Light turned on, but very acceptable. Light completely off is impossible to read for me even under a lamp because screen is dark gray, even though 300 PPI text. Need to test outside without GlowLight on.

Covers and non-fiction history book illustrations of maps and historical figure paintings look great, reminding me of my comics collection from the 1990s!

I wish I could get OverDrive to work properly for library comics though. If the title isn't exactly the same on Kobo store, it doesn't sync to my device, which was one of the reasons we got it.

[Cootey]

Glad you like your KLC! I find that comics on the color screen remind me of newsprint, too.

Your comment re: sync issues might deserve its own thread, but that is a problem with this OD system. I run into unsyncable books about once every year and a half, but recently I ran into it with manga for the same reasons you mention. It’s very frustrating.

[gforgiraffe39935]

Originally Posted by Cootey

Glad you like your KLC! I find that comics on the color screen remind me of newsprint, too.

Your comment re: sync issues might deserve its own thread, but that is a problem with this OD system. I run into unsyncable books about once every year and a half, but recently I ran into it with manga for the same reasons you mention. It’s very frustrating.

I am testing out a Boox Go Color 7 and the Libby app for those comics that aren't available through the Kobo Libra Colour's OverDrive-Kobo login. I haven't been able to find that sweet spot refresh setting to make the comics look as good as on the Kobo Libra Colour.

I was thinking Boox Go would be better for my nephew to borrow on than the KLC, but now I am unsure.

[Aleron Ives]

IIRC you need the "depth refresh" setting in NeoReader to get a ghost-free experience, and depth refresh is not available for other apps, which means you can only have an optimal reading experience on DRM-free content in NeoReader and not with any other apps.