If a book is available, you'll see a Borrow with Overdrive option, and it will be wirelessly downloaded. You can browse the library's virtual shelves or search, right on the device. If your library uses Overdrive, you can enter your library card number in the device's Settings and then see your local library integrated into the Kobo store. It used to be awkward to borrow library books with Kobo, but a September software update changed everything. Page flips on heavy PDFs are a little slow-CBRs are much faster-but in general, we'd advise the Aura H2O for your manga reading, because the 6-inch screen here is just a little too small. We tried several manga and comics on the Clara HD, in PDF and CBR formats. EPUBs downloaded from elsewhere show page numbers. Weirdly, Kobo-purchased books don't have overall page numbers, just numbers within chapters. The Clara HD handled Kobo-purchased, PDF, and EPUB books well, including tables of contents. But a lot of Kindle readers don't use those features, anyway. It doesn't go nearly as deep as Amazon does in adding supplementary material to books-there's no X-Ray keeping track of characters and plots, and you don't have Amazon's deep Goodreads integration. So, Kobo has the basics, and handles them well. You can add bookmarks, pop over to the table of contents at any time, and in Kobo-purchased books, you can get stats on how far you are through the book. Tap on words, and you can highlight or annotate them, get dictionary definitions, or share quotes to Facebook. Tap into a book, and you're reading, in 10 different fonts with a wide variety of sizes and weights. You can arrange your books into collections of related titles. Along with books, you can sign into a Pocket account and read any article stored in Pocket on the e-reader. You can also drag books over into its 8GB of storage using a micro USB cable, and I had no problem doing so from a PC or a Mac. You can download books using the Kobo Store option on the main menu it also tries to recommend books to you, and did pretty decently discovering my taste. The Clara HD connects to the internet using 2.4GHz Wi-Fi. Kobo's user interface feels like the Ubuntu of ebook readers. For audiobooks on an e-reader, once again, we suggest the Kindle Oasis. The Clara HD also doesn't support audiobooks, but neither do its competitors in this price range. You'll have to jump up to the $179.99 Kobo Aura H2O for that. None of the e-readers available at this price point are, but given that Kobo pioneered water-resistant e-readers with its H2O models, it would have been nice to see. Unfortunately, the Clara HD isn't waterproof. After reading Sylvain Neuvel's new "Only Human" and volume 6 of the manga "Yotsuba," I still had more than half the battery to go. The Barnes & Noble Nook Glowlight 3 does the same thing, but Amazon's still committed to serving you blue light only.īattery life is great. You can shift it from energizing blue to restful yellow, and anywhere in between it can also shift automatically based on the time of day. The Clara HD's color-changing front light is a great strength. The Nook's page-turn buttons are pretty stiff anyway for really pleasing physical buttons, you have to go all the way up to the $249 Amazon Kindle Oasis. Unlike the GlowLight 3, there are no physical page-turn buttons you tap the side of the screen to turn pages, which is fine. The power button is the only physical button on the Clara HD. I put the Clara HD in a $39 leather SleepCover, which feels terrific, protects the reader, and acts as a stand. The back is slightly tapered, with a stipple pattern that makes it easy to grip. It's worth mentioning that its 300ppi resolution is slightly sharper than Kobo's last-gen e-readers, which were 265ppi. It has the same 6-inch, 300ppi E-Ink Carta screen as the Paperwhite and the Barnes & Noble Nook GlowLight 3. The Kobo Clara HD, at 6.3 by 4.3 by 0.3 inches (HWD) and 5.9 ounces, is significantly smaller and lighter than the Kindle Paperwhite (6.7 by 4.6 by 0.4 inches, 7.2 ounces). If those are the files you read, the Clara HD is the reader for you. It works with Overdrive books from public libraries, and supports a wide range of other formats natively: EPUB, PDF, RTF, text files, JPEGs, CBR, and CBZ, for books and documents you find around the web. It runs its own ebook store, which recently had everything we looked for that isn't published by Amazon. Kobo is a big deal in several countries outside the US, most notably Canada.
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