Kobo has discounted their latest generation e-reader, the Kobo Aura Edition 2. You can purchase it from their website and a number of their retail partners for $109.99, which is a savings of $20 off of the regular price.
The Edition 2 features a six inch E-Ink Carta display with a resolution of 1024 X 768 and 212 PPI. These specs make it a very basic e-reader by 2016 standards and there are plenty of similarly priced alternatives Underneath the hood is a 1 GHz Freescale i.MX507 processor, and 512 MB of RAM. There is 4 GB of internal memory and with no option to enhance it via an SD card for your average user.
This is a fairly good e-reader for basically just $100, the frontlight system is really solid and the Kobo ecosystem is only rivaled by Amazon.
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.
