There are plenty of deals if you are looking for an Amazon Kindle e-reader or Fire Tablet. Not many other companies discount e-notebooks or e-readers for the Big Spring Event. However, Rakuten Kobo is promoting its Libra Colour on Amazon. Honestly, the savings are insignificant—8% off the list price.
The Kobo Libra Colour usually costs $249.99, but you can buy one for $229.99 today. The company is the second largest global e-reader brand; you can generally find them in bookstores and big-box retailers. Kobo does not sell them at a discount on its website; they are only sold on Amazon.
The Rakuten Kobo Libra Colour is likely one of the best e-readers and e-notebooks on the market. It utilizes the latest generation E INK Kaleido 3 e-paper technology, which makes the screen vibrant. There are several major selling points behind this new device. It has a 35% larger battery than the previous generation, Libra 2; it has physical page-turn buttons, Google Drive, and Dropbox to access cloud storage, and it can conduct highlights and write notes in ebooks with the Kobo Pencil 2.
- BROWSE & READ EBOOKS IN FULL COLOR - Book covers, comics, graphic novels, illustrations, note-taking and more come to life. No glare in sunlight, no notifications - just you and your eBooks in full-color
- YOUR JOURNAL, DAILY PLANNER AND MORE - Dive into your stories with colorful markups. With Kobo Stylus 2* compatibility (*sold separately), annotate, highlight, and note take your eBooks in color
- READ COMFORTABLY, ALWAYS - Ergonomically designed with page-turn buttons, left/right screen rotation, full font size and margin customization, and landscape mode
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.