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Chapters Will Have the Kobo Mini and Kobo Glo September 30th

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Chapters Indigo has confirmed with Good e-Reader today that the company will begin offering the new Kobo Glo and Kobo Mini September 30th 2012. The stores should have received them a few days ago in order to familiarize the staff with the new  products. If you live in Canada, you can pre-order them directly from Chapters right now, but there are some factors to be aware of. In the past, customers that pre-ordered them didn’t get them until a week after they were officially released. So you will have better luck visiting your local Chapters on the day they are released, rather than ordering them in advance.

The Kobo Mini is the company’s $79, 5 inch offering and is very pocket friendly. It uses a faster processor and more RAM than any of the company’s previous units. Turning pages is very quick and accessing menus is no longer an exercise in patience. The new Kobo Glo is the product that might be the top seller going into the holidays. It is a six inch e-ink reader with the ability to turn up the brightness settings to let you read in the dark. The Glow function is easier on the eyes than an LCD based device, like the iPad.

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  • Squambay

    I’ve contacted Kobo, and inexplicably, they can’t tell me if the Mini will allow the use of the dictionary with third-party books.

    I’m contemplating buying them for my neices and nephews, but I won’t if the dictionary can’t be used with library books.

    Does anyone who’s had a look at them know whether the Mini dictionary will be universal?

    TIA

    asdf

  • http://buffaloseven.tumblr.com Brad

    Curious what this source is.  On the official product page (http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/ereading/devices/Kobo/681495000142-item.html?ref=by-shop%3aereading%3akobo-glo), @MatthewatIndigo:twitter stated that they would be available for purchase in store on October 5th.  September 30th is a Sunday, which would be an odd day to launch a new product.  I could believe that shipments go out Sunday and would be available by week’s end.

    Either way, I’ll probably phone my local Chapters store and see if they have them on Monday.

  • http://goodereader.com/blog/ Good E-Reader

    Many Chapters stores in Vancouver and Toronto all said they will be in the store on the 30th to have the staff trained in all the new features. It may not officially be on sale that day, but they will have them in stock, some might release them early, or you might be able get your hands on one if you know someone who works there. 

  • Guest

     No stores have them available for release today.

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