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The Kobo Aura One is discontinued

January 28, 2019 By Michael Kozlowski 5 Comments

Kobo has discontinued the Kobo Aura One e-reader. It is out of stock on the company’s own website and all of their retail partners in Canada, EU and United States are no longer carrying it. This e-reader has basically been replaced by the Kobo Forma.

The Aura One was the largest e-reader that Kobo ever produced and it originally came out in 2016. It was the first device that had Overdrive built right into it and this was a major selling point at the time. Since then, all of the current generation Kobo e-readers, such as the Clara HD now have Overdrive.

One of the most interesting aspects of the Aura One, is that it had a Limited Edition model that was only sold in the US and Japan. The only thing that made it Limited, was the fact it had 32GB of internal storage, and the regular model only had 8GB.  The Limited Edition had so much success that when Kobo released the Forma, they had two different storage versions; 8GB and 32GB.

The 32GB version of the Forma is very hard to find. It is only available from the Kobo website in Canada, US and Japan. Other markets will get it sometime in April or May. For now, if you want the 32GB version, the Good e-Reader Store is your best bet.

Michael Kozlowski

Michael Kozlowski is the Editor in Chief of Good e-Reader. He has been writing about audiobooks and e-readers for the past ten years. His articles have been picked up by major and local news sources and websites such as the CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and Verge.

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  • Albert

    Understandable, but sad all the same. I still adore my Aura One, truly adore it. In fact, as coincidences go, I was recently talking to a prominent programmer living in Malta now, and he told me that he had one too, based entirely on my review posted here. I was extremely surprised, but gratified to know it had made such an impact. He told me that everything I had written said was true, and that one really had to own one to understand how amazing that 7.8 inch size is over the endless hordes of 6-inchers.

  • Aviv Shener

    Unless they start taking their QA more seriously, all Kobo should be discontinued.
    We have Amazon messing up the battery life for the latest Oasis and Paperwhite, plus messing up the lightning.
    And yey, Kobo can’t seem to make devices that works properly.

    Sad times.

  • some one

    totally agree. I tried the aura one and the forma. Wanted to go with the Aura one for the shape and price over the forma, but was a little late this holiday season. It is sold out everywhere. I guess I will have to wait for its successor, if there is one.

  • Heidi Steindel

    They should keep this and discontinue the Aura Edition two and make the Clara the entry level device

  • Albert

    In over two years, I have not had a single issue with my Kobo Aura One. And I use it daily.

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