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Kobo Mini, Kobo Glo, and Kobo Touch TRIPARISON!

October 7, 2012 By Michael Kozlowski 9 Comments

If you are an avid reader of our online publication, you would know we love our e-reader comparison videos. We often pit two devices against each other with the same content loaded on them to give you an idea of how they stack up. We hope you can muster the courage to see a TRIPARISON! We show you the entire lineup that the Kobo is actively marketing all over the world. Each one of these readers has a very distinctive look and all bring something unique to the table. In this video we document all of the details such as hardware, software, ebooks, and more!

The Kobo Touch was the 2011 model that has quickly become the flagship device for opening new markets in Europe, USA, and Japan. It features a six inch touchscreen with e-ink technology. The Pearl screen will give you a resolution of 600×800 pixels and runs on a 800 MHZ Processor. It provides a very elegant reading experience, but does suffer from some delays in some of the operations.

The Kobo Mini is a five inch touchscreen display running on an older e-Ink Visplex technology. It has the exact same 800 MHZ CPU as the Touch and the resolution is identical. Make no mistake, this is a very small e-reader and users who have had prior models that are larger might find the transition difficult. I’d recommend it to first time buyers and people looking for a cheap and cheerful price, to serve as their backup or holiday e-reader.

The Kobo Glo gives you the impressive ability to read your ebooks in any environment. In the past you needed to be in an lighted area, and since e-Ink is not backlit like LED screens and thus prevented you from being able to read in the dark. This new model illuminates the screen with front LED’s that shine from under the bezel. The resolution gives you some the highest in the current generation of readers with 1025X758. It has a 1 GHZ processor, which is far superior to any of the company’s other products. This would be the one e-reader I would recommend right now for international markets.


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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  • Laura

    The Kobo Glo has a removable back plate?

  • Good E-Reader

     No, only the MIni and Arc do

  • Laura

    At 2:26 you say that the Glo and MIni do. I’m starting to wonder whether I should believe anything I read/hear on this site.

  • Goodall

    Hi Laura, Cerys here from Kobo. The Kobo Mini and Kobo Arc have interchangeable Snapbacks in a variety of colours. The Kobo Glo comes in Black and White. The White comes with your choice of Pink Sunset, Blue Moon, or Silver Star. There’s more info on our design here: http://www.kobo.com/koboglo/design/. Hope that helps!

  • Robert Black

    Love my new Kobo mini…. so easy to carry around…. waiting a few months to see how the battery life , lights, etc do on the KoboGlo then maybe that for my inhome reader.
    Just a note ..the Kobo Mini is $79 everywhere except for shopreaders.com where they are $119… 

  • Bhaskar Krishnatreya

    Can you do a side by side comparison of the glo and the paperwhite?

  • Nards Barley

    Michael,

    I read that a recent firmware update of the Kobo Touch resulted in the addition of new foreign language dictionaries that you can use as the default dictionary by specifying the default in the system settings.

    Are there foreign language dictionaries available for the new Mini or the Glow, similar to the Touch?

    Thanks.

  • Good E-Reader

     Yes, both the Mini and Glo have 12 different dictionaries built into it, the new firmware for the Kobo Touch was based off of the Mini and Glo.

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