My favorite e-reader is at its lowest price ever for Black Friday

The colour e-reader is $30 disconnected for Black Friday.

Amazon’s Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition mightiness beryllium heavy discounted for Black Friday, but we’d reason that the Kobo Libra Colour is really the amended enactment for those not already embedded successful the Amazon ecosystem. It offers much features for somewhat little — and close now, the colour e-reader has returned to its all-time debased of $199.99 ($30 off) astatine Amazon, Target, and Kobo’s online storefront.

Kobo Libra Colour

Where to Buy:

• $229 $199.99 astatine Amazon
• $219.99 $199.99 astatine Target
• $219.99 $199.99 astatine Rakuten Kobo

If I didn’t ain truthful galore Kindle books, the Libra Colour would beryllium my go-to e-reader. In fact, of each the dozens I’ve tested, it’s my favorite. Like the Colorsoft, it features a 7-inch, 300ppi e-ink show that drops to 150ppi erstwhile viewing color. The colors aren’t rather arsenic vivid arsenic they are connected Amazon’s e-reader, but the graphics inactive look lukewarm and bright, and the adjustable earthy airy slider helps. It’s besides waterproof — truthful you don’t person to interest if it starts raining oregon you’re speechmaking successful the bath — and you get 32GB of storage, which is plentifulness for books and audiobooks.

Somewhat surprisingly, the Kobo Libra Color offers immoderate genuinely adjuvant features you won’t find connected the Colorsoft. The colour ebook scholar features intuitive, carnal page-turn buttons and compatibility with the Kobo Stylus 2, truthful you tin jot down notes portion reading. It besides includes built-in notebook templates for journaling and tin adjacent person handwriting to typed substance (or lick mathematics equations), meaning you tin usage it arsenic some an e-reader and a tiny notebook.

The e-reader besides supports a overmuch wider scope of record formats than the Colorsoft, including EPUB files, and you tin prevention articles offline with Instapaper. The lone existent downside is that it doesn’t natively enactment Kindle books. If you’re consenting to enactment successful a small other time, though, it is imaginable to person your Kindle library.

Read our Kobo Libra Colour review.