![]() Rather it’s a question of curation and discoverability. ![]() (Kobo is cagier with exact numbers than Amazon, but talks about “more than five million titles” at time of writing the Kindle store returns 5,696,052 results for eBooks, but official estimates put it closer to seven million earlier in 2017.) Both libraries are so vast that you’re unlikely to run out of appealing options, and a brief browse suggests that new titles appear in each store roughly simultaneously. This isn’t a question of the debatably smaller library. Kindle store, this may be a disappointment. There are lots of ways to load eBooks on to the Aura One, but the most obvious – and of course the one Kobo wants you to use, since the company gets a share of the revenue – is to buy books directly from the ![]() Kindle owners still have to buy waterproof cases for their devices, and this is a big advantage for the holiday market strange, really, that Amazon still hasn’t caught up since the And in an odd sense this is rather reassuring, since it feels like it would probably be fine if you dropped it.Īnd if you dropped it in the swimming pool you really should be okay, because this reader offers IPX8-rated water-resistance – the company boasts that it can survive up to 60 minutes in 2m of water. The device feels cheaper than it is – lightweight, uncolourful, plasticky – but that tends to be the case with eReaders. Check the dimensions in the specs section, cut out a piece of cardboard matching them, and spend a few moments seeing how much the extra size is going to bother you. It’s still a great, light, one-hand design that fits easily in the smaller pockets of a rucksack, but in certain ways you may notice its slight extra width – you might have been able to fit a Kindle in your handspan or jeans pocket, for instance, but struggle to do the same with this. The size – well, we’ll come back to the benefits of that larger screen in the next section, but note that you pay for this in terms of portability as well as price. In this article we review the Kobo Aura One, a large-screen eReader with exceptional water-resistance and good night-time reading features. To the average member of the public,īuying a Kindle is a general intention, not a buying decision.īut it is a decision, and there are alternatives, from companies such as But the relatively small selection we’ve seen in our local library at any rate suggests this should be regarded as a nice bonus rather than a primary source of reads.ĮReader market what Google has done for search engines: made itself generic. The one exception is OverDrive, an excellent way of borrowing high-quality library eBooks for free, which is better supported here than on Kindle. ![]() The Kobo store is lightyears behind Amazon’s Kindle store, in terms of curation if not size, and while you can side-load eBooks from elsewhere (provided they are DRM-free), you miss out on some of the Kindle features that make library management easier, such as free 3G and wide cross-device syncing. And the screen is sharp and equipped with night-time reading features that will help you get a decent sleep.īut while the reading experience is good, getting books on to your Kobo in the first place is less of a pleasure. It’s also got a lovely big (7.8in) screen by eReader standards, tucked into a sleek chassis that’s not much heavier than the 6in Kindle models (and actually lighter than one of them). The Kobo Aura One is way ahead of Amazon on waterproofing, for one thing, and that’s no small matter for a big section of eReader users – anyone reading by the beach or swimming pool on holiday, or in the bath back home. The price might seem off-putting at first (after all, it’s possible to get a Kindle for a third of the price, if you’re willing to put up with ‘special offers’, or £70 if you’re not) but there’s plenty here to justify the expense.
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