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Amazon Kindle or WHSmith Kobo eReader Touch?
Kobo eReader Touch (Black)
Amazon's new £89 Kindle may be taking a lot of the e-reader limelight, but last week a new product from Kobo went on sale in WHSmith.
The Kobo eReader Touch
Edition costs £109.99, which is significantly more than the new Kindle — but as
its name suggests, it has a touchscreen.
The new £89 (inc. VAT) Kindle is
smaller than its previous model, primarily because it lacks a physical
keyboard but also because the screen bezel is slightly reduced in size. The
older product remains available as a 3G-plus-Wi-Fi unit for £149. The earlier
Wi-Fi only version has disappeared.
We mentioned a reduced feature set. The battery is smaller and less powerful, delivering up to a month of life, according to Amazon, as opposed to two months in the older model. There is just 2GB of internal storage — enough for about 1,400 books — as opposed to 4GB (approximately 3,500 books-worth) in the previous model.
The Kobo eReader Touch is more expensive than the new Kindle, at £109.99. WHSmith differentiates it by saying that once you've downloaded an e-book you
can install it on as many devices as you want. That's because the Kobo family
of e-readers supports a range of e-book formats such as ePUB, PDF and MOBI, as
well as TXT, RTF, HTML and CBZ and CBR comic-book formats and JPEG, GIF, PNG,
BMP and TIFF image files. The Kindle e-book formats are proprietary, of
course.
The Kobo eReader Touch shares the same screen size as the Kindle, and is very
similar in size and weight at 165mm by 114mm by 10mm and 185g. It has a rather
odd-looking sculpted back and is available with four backplate colours —
black, white pink and blue, the latter three having a white front, the first a
black front.
Kindle Paperwhite, 6" High Resolution Display with Built-in Light, Wi-Fi - Includes Special Offers
EBOK Kobo Touch Edition. Blue 6"
The Kobo eReader Touch Edition is a compact, lightweight, and affordable e-ink e-reader with touch-screen navigation, built-in Wi-Fi, an expansion slot for additional memory, and good battery life (over one month with wireless off). Also, the Kobo e-book store is integrated into the device, and you get a basic Web browser.
The Kobo eReader Touch
KOZMICC 3x Kobo eReader Touch Edition Display Screen Protectors.
The new generation of the Kobo eReader Touch Edition displays necessitate the use of screen protection due to the "touch functionally" of the displays. Since your fingers, other object, and small particulates (sand, dust, etc.) will not be in contact with the display, scratch protection is now a priority! Also since the new generation Kobo is smaller, it is the perfect size for wearing in your back pocket, so even more protection from keys and cards should be required!
