#kobo clara

[adq4991]

I’m doing it!! I’m moving on from apple books, I’m so excited!

I decided to go with Kobo because of its simplicity; kindle’s just filled with ads and recommendations, with a lil section for your books 🥱 also, kobo supports more formats (I especially needed epub)

BUT THE BIGGEST THING, is that kobo shows chapter progression (by pages) and kindle doesn’t 🫠 honestly, “time left” would be such a useless feature for me.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

#my reads #kobobooks #kobo clara #ereader #goodreads

[firstfullmoon]

does anyone have an ereader and read lots of poetry and/or pdfs on it and if so which ereader would you recommend

#no kindle please fuck amazon but I keep going back n forth between several kobo models ugh #clara 2e has pocket app + lots of good features for a reasonable price but kobo sage seems so good + stylus compatible but pricier #but also like what if I don’t like reading on an ereader at all & I spent all that money.....cuz I’ll prob still mainly read physical books #so it would just be for poetry collections and maybe some pdfs of books that r not in my library / too expensive 2 buy #anyway please help me <3 Im the worst at making decisions like that

[pricklyest]

What e reader did you buy? Do you recommend it?

I was waiting to answer this when I stopped being sick so I could maybe be coherent but at this point idk when that's going to happen so we're just going to go w it and hope this makes sense sorry

I bought a kobo clara 2e. I wanted the smallest ereader I could find that was a reasonable price and also waterproof because I like to read in the bathtub and I am not immune to dropping things in the water. have ruined more than one book that way, have also ruined a nintendo switch that way.

the kobo ecosystem is not bad in terms of ereaders if you exclusively buy your ebooks from the kobo store. the kobo store is better than the amazon ebook store imo bc it lets you download drm-free versions of your purchases without having to go through any conversions, which I don't think is true of the kindle store.

kobo also lets you upload your own epubs and pdfs to the ereader from your computer pretty easily (you can add them like you would to a flash drive or you can use something like calibre to manage your library for you). there have been a few times when I've plugged my kobo into my computer and it hasn't automatically connected so I had to disconnect and reconnect it but then it worked fine. so it can be finicky but ultimately you should be able to get it.

the software that actually opens the ebooks and that you read with is actually different based on whether it's an epub in the kobo format (the filename will end with .kepub.epub) or literally anything else. kepubs will support more features, like annotations and faster page flips and easy word lookups in dictionaries (especially useful for reading the locked tomb which is Full of vocab words). you can also actually make changes the the font type and size. whereas anything else it just displays and doesn't let you highlight, annotate, or select text text. you can zoom in on things, but that's about it.

the good news is there are a lot of tools that let you turn things into kepubs. I currently use a plugin you can get for calibre, but I'm thinking about trying kepubify bc some of the epubs I've downloaded have turned into funky formatting with the calibre plugin.

right now my kobo clara 2e downsides are 1) device is still bigger than I'd like*, 2) kepub vs other file formats thing is mildly annoying, 3) can't buy ebooks from kobo store via app on my phone, have to either buy from kobo website or from my ereader, 4) screen is often less sensitive than I'm used to with other touch screen devices (this may just be an ereader thing), 5) I can't send books to my kobo wirelessly unless I've purchased them in the kobo store (idk if this is something I could do for other ereader systems, I haven't looked).

*there aren't really any devices from any of the major ereader brands with screens smaller than 6in (which is what the clara 2e has). I also looked at the xiaomi inkpalm 5, which does appear to be an ideal size for me, but you have to do some annoying command line shit to get it running in english and it doesn't appear to be waterproof. I may look into it again if I get sick enough of not having my ereader actually fit in my pants pockets. you could also get an eink phone and use it as an ereader, but they're phone prices instead of ereader prices, and most of them have the same language support issues the xiaomi has. the other thing I looked at is the open book project and the m5 paper which are both diy ereader kits and I'm more inclined to fuck with one of those than the xiaomi if I decide to do something more fun in the future, but I don't have the bandwidth for that right now.

kobo also supports integration with overdrive so you can check out library books, but I have recently discovered my library card is expired and bc I'm sick I haven't gone in to get a new one yet so I have no idea what that looks like and whether or not reading library ebooks uses the good reader (like with kepubs) or the no features reader.

one last annoying thing is the kobo store on the reader keeps trying to tell me to subscribe to kobo plus, which is basically like spotify premium but for ebooks and/or audiobooks. but not all titles ever are included so I haven't really looked into it v much bc rn I've found what I wanted to read through other methods (shout out to standardebooks.org)

anyway overall I would say I'd recommend it if your use case is exactly the same as mine, which is I wanted something small to read in the bath and carry around to hopefully replace my doomscrolling habit with reading like I used to when I was a kid, and it so far has been mildly successful. I did start wearing a fanny pack on a regular basis so that way I could actually carry it around everywhere like my phone, but even with a fanny pack I don't think you could fit something much bigger than 6-7in screen, so I'm not sure anything else would work. if you wanted a bigger ereader, I know someone else who has one of the larger kobos (not sure which one, we don't talk super often) and seems p happy w it. I briefly entertained the idea of getting one from kobo w a stylus and using that to take notes in class bc I saw some people in the ereader subreddit say they liked using it for that, and then I remembered I have an ipad and apple pencil to do that exact thing already and I'm already really happy w that setup.

#long post #kobo clara 2e #ereader

[publicdomainbooksdevotee]

Tristram Shandy broke my book app…

#it keeps having problems i give up i'm just reading it on my kobo clara which has never let me down #just have to finish The Cave Girl on that first #classic literature #tristram shandy #public domain books

[ally-holmes]

I was taking a look over my annotations in books. Well... To be more specific, I do hate making annotations and resalting with markers on actual books because it feels like I'm damaging them. That's why the only annotations are in my ebooks. Although I must confess that if I buy an epub in the Kobo Store (as I have a Rakuten Kobo Clara HD as ereader) and I love it, I might buy a physical copy.

All to say that these are some of my favorite annotations from this year (since the end of March, when I bought my ereader) — Um... I don't know if annotations are the right word.

From "The Raven King", the second book of All For The Game:

From "Delilah Green Doesn't Care":

#annotations #bookadiction #all for the game books #all for the game #aftg #delilah green doesn't care #the king's men #the raven king #the foxhole court #quotes #queer books #books #ebook #kobo clara hd #kobo

[lori-ella]

Kobo Clara 2E

I've been very happy with my Kobo Clara 2e purchase! The happiest I've been with an ereader since my Nook Color died. I used to read on pocket PCs back in the day! Went through times reading on a Blackberry! But unlike with the Blackberry, reading whole books on my Android phones never worked for me. I tried tablets: Samsung Tab 7", Kindle fire, and a newer Tab (hoping for better resolution).

However, I never tried an eink based ereader because the flashing between pages is a problem for me. I have issues around that & it's not worth the literal headache.

Since the latest eink came out, the flashing between pages while reading is either gone or only at refresh points like between chapters. I could not have dealt with an eink reader otherwise.

This one has a pretty good storage (16 GB) & battery life (like most eink readers). Can sideload with series information (harder to do with ereaders than you'd think!) and now integrated Overdrive! Seriously, seriously love this ereader.

The above shows my home screen which combines sideloaded, bought, and Overdrive borrowed books.

Yes, the recent books look HEAVY on trad published books which is unusual for me. This is a combo of me poking at a variety of stores & remembering to catch up on some of these best sellers & a bit of what's available from libraries.

The Squeeze Play book is from when I tried Kobo as an e-store back when (pre-2011) and there were freebies or something? I can't remember. But I bring it up because it's no longer available through that publisher, but it did not disappear from my shelf.

My Calibre library is 10GB. It's been building since 2010! I could move the entire thing over and still have room. Considering it!

#Kobo clara 2e #ereader #kobo #overdrive

[upbeatmeeting]

help me choose what to read

hello to the 3 people that look at my blogs, please vote on this strawpoll about which book i should read next bc i'm bored and want to read and also i have a new ereader i want to try out:

#poll #help me decide #books #reading #ereader #it's a kobo clara hd by the way #pls vote #vote

[sandandjello]

Kobo Libra Colour and Kobo Clara Colour Bring Something Exciting to the eReader Space

It’s been a while since we wrote about Kobo and the Kobo Reader, but here’s some exciting news — Kobo Rakuten has unveiled the Kobo Libra Colour and Kobo Clara Colour eReaders. These devices mark Kobo’s debut into color E Ink technology, departing from the traditional black-and-white digital reading experience that most, if not all, of us are used to on our eReaders.

#kobo #kobo clara bw #kobo clara colour #kobo libra colour #ereader #ereaders #eink #colored eink

[istyles]

New: Kobo Clara 2E Skins

#kobo clara 2e #kobo #kobo books

[tokyorry]

does anyone have kindle or other e-reader? i'm contemplatingg

#as if i have 150e to drop on a new gadget but i feel like it would be so handy? #tempted to get kobo clara #bea posts

[magz]

(image: Package content. Bamboo cutting board, and refurbish Kobo Clara HD eReader.)

Thank @majjigeanna and anon ! package

(context: Are gifts from wishlist. Refurbish eReader so can read better w/ visual disability that have + photophobia + chronic migraine. Cutting board bc many house item got damage.)

#text post #o post #described

[greenfinches]

i want a kobo clara so baddd but i am in Saving Mode… i am in Saving Mode… i must not spend

#i hate carrying books in my bag they get SO fucked up. covers get ripped pages get crumpled. nightmare #rose post

[firstfullmoon]

i bought a kobo clara 2e two years ago and it’s been amazing! i also didn’t want to support amazon and i like that the kobo can connect to overdrive and i can get library books on it. i will say that for me, it’s kind of difficult to read pdfs on it. for some reason epub files run a lot smoother. but i’m planning on upgrading to a more expensive kobo in a few years maybe and pdfs might work better on those. but yeah i really love my kobo and find it really easy to read on even though i was never an ereader person

thank you for your input! yeah I gathered pdfs wouldn’t read too well on there but its disappointing to know for sure. still will probably get that one first just to check how I feel about ereaders as a whole - I also am not really an ereader kind of person but so tired of reading stuff on my computer tbh so it’ll be good to try smth new :-)

[publicdomainbooksdevotee]

Oooooh, 1856 artillery manual:

#i'm not a gun person but this is interesting #public domain books #omg a whole glossary of fortification terms #where was this when i was reading tristram shandy and uncle toby (my beloved) kept using words that defeated my kobo clara's dictionary

[asstrofem]

I was tagged by @noirelapinemorte

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[grimnir-esjay]

imagine this Kobo and Regis are adopted by Kiara and Calli (and Clara) but one they they returned home Regis banging Kobo on a coffee table that was their common place for their weekend family bonding

#kobo kanaeru #regis altare #kobo x regis #hololive #writing prompt