If you’re over seeing announcements about Amazon’s Prime Day sale and Amazon’s own on-sale devices, I can’t blame you. It’s everywhere these days, and every website is trying to replicate the sale. If you’re feeling like you want to escape from the Amazon ecosystem grind, though, I’ve got an idea (and a sale!) for you.
One of the biggest markets Amazon has changed is book shopping. (I’ll always miss my beloved Borders bookstores.) If you’d like to get your reading experience away from Amazon, you can put the Kindle deals down and start shopping for a whole different e-reader. There’s an excellent option for you that offers a better price for a color screen, comes with page-turner buttons, and can double as a digital notebook.
What gadget is that, you may wonder? It’s the Kobo Libra Colour, and it’s not the only e-reader the brand has on sale.
The Best Color E-Reader Deal
The Kobo Libra Colour is my favorite color e-reader. It has a colorful 7-inch screen with an adjustable warm front light, and 32 GB of storage to hold hundreds of books. I really like Kobo’s e-readers, and you’ll get all the features you’d find on a Kindle: a dedicated store to buy e-books, a membership (Kobo Plus, starting at $8 a week) you can join to get access to a library of e-books and audio content, and the ability to add library books right onto the device.
But what I especially like about the Kobo Libra Colour is how many more features you get for a price similar to the Kindle Colorsoft. Both have color screens, but the Libra Colour has page-turner buttons and a thicker side with said buttons, making it easy to hold and control your pages (no more rapidly tapping around your screen to find your page). I also love that if you purchase the Kobo Stylus 2 ($70), it can double as a digital notebook. I really like that you can annotate your books on the page with Kobo, which Kindle doesn’t allow you to do.
Kobo recently raised its prices, so you’re not getting as much of a discount as you used to. But that’s also why I’d jump on this sale now, so you don’t have to pay the new price tag instead of the cheaper one.
Another On-Sale Kobo
Looking for something a little cheaper, and aren’t married to a color screen? Kobo’s Clara BW is also on sale.
The Clara is smaller than the Libra Colour, with just a 6-inch black-and-white screen, but it has an adjustable warm front light. It’s similar to the Kindle Paperwhite in that sense, but it’s the size of the basic Kindle. It’s not on as big a discount as the Paperwhite, so that one is a better buy if you’re open to any black-and-white e-reader, but if you’re looking for a cheaper way to get out from under Amazon’s boot, this is a great option.
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