Kobo's new tablets compete with Google's Nexuses on price, specs". Ars Technica. August 2013 . Retrieved 29 August 2013. Pilato, Fabrizio (29 September 2010). "Kobo WiFi edition is cheaper, faster and sharper". Mobile Magazine . Retrieved 17 January 2011. The lights are about as problematic as each other. Where the Kindle fires upwards from the bottom of the screen, the Kobo Glo fires downwards from the top, and the light dispersion isn’t completely consistent.

Ridden, Paul (25 May 2011). "Kobo launches new e-Reader Touch edition". Gizmag . Retrieved 26 May 2011.This won’t matter too much for those who have their own ebook collections, of course, plug the Kobo Glo into a computer using the microUSB port on the bottom edge and you can easily drag and drop files onto the internal memory. EPUB is the main file format intended for use on the Glo, but PDFs, basic image files, HTML docs and TXT files will also work too. Store, Rakuten Kobo eReader. "Kobo Aura ONE". Rakuten Kobo eReader Store . Retrieved 12 December 2018. It is possible to put too much weight on this, though. Screen resolution is a bit less important here than it is in, say, a tablet. Why? First, you’re only going to be reading on the thing. And looking pretty doesn’t matter quite so much when your brain’s the real canvas, not the screen. Then there’s the E Ink effect. This will not be covered by accidental warranty, because "Kobo strongly advises not to manually update your eReader".

This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( May 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Barnes & Noble has just taken the wraps off a budget version of the Nook GlowLight 4, the e-book reader that it launched last December.

Kobo Glo runs on the Kobo Firmware, based on the Linux kernel. The software is available in 8 languages and 2 variants: English, French, Canadian French, Japanese, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Brazilian Portuguese. And I'm sure by now you have decided that the "grumpy" tag I was suggesting isn't descriptive enough. One of the best bits of Kobo’s higher-end ereaders like the Kobo Glo is the interface, which is thoroughly tasteful, intuitive and lovely to look at. Most importantly, it puts your most-recently read books within a tap of the homescreen, which shows five thumbnails in decreasing size. a b c d e f g "6-inch eBook Reader Comparison Table". The eBook Reader . Retrieved 1 September 2021. Still, the Glo’s light is even and consistent across the screen and doesn’t suffer from the weird lighting issues that plague the Kindle and, to a lesser extent, the Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight.