However, if you plan to download various ebook files onto your ebook reader from other sources, the Kobo Aura H2O holds a distinct advantage over the Kindle, which only supports Amazon’s files. Kobo’s store isn’t as easy to navigate as the Kindle bookstore and its list of recommended content is less polished than Amazon’s. Those of you who’ve never used one of the company’s ebook readers can choose from the 3 million plus ebooks, newspapers, and magazines on the Kobo Store. If you’ve used a Kobo before, you can access all your ebooks from the Kobo Cloud. The apps will sync your bookmarks, so you’ll be able to continue right where you left off. If you don’t plan to take the Kobo with you everywhere you go, you can also download its companion apps for iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and Windows. This seems like the kind of feature that would help a speed-reading college kid cram in all the required reading before an exam. Kobo also gives you your reading stats, so you know how much you’ve read, when you’ll hit the next chapter, and how many more hours of reading you’ve got until you finish the book. We’ve read an entire book on the Aura H2O and it still has enough battery to last a few more weeks.You can tap on words to get definitions, select sections of text to highlight, or add annotations. Even when the Aura H2O did get wet, it continued to function normally, as promised. The new Kobo also joined in on a bubble bath without incident. We took it to Brighton Beach in Brooklyn for a day on the beach and didn’t have to worry about it getting wet (though we did keep it out of the ocean to avoid losing it). One of our other favorite things about the Aura H2O is that it’s waterproof. The Kobo is one of the only devices we don’t have to remember to charge every night and it certainly makes life easier. We’ve read an entire book on the Aura H2O and let it sit around idle for a while and it still has enough battery to last a few more weeks. Kobo says the Aura H2O should last up to 2 months before needing a recharge, which works out to 30 minutes of reading each day, if you turn the page once every minute. Perhaps the best thing about the Kobo Aura H2O is its incredibly long battery life. Those of you who are multilingual will be glad to know that ebooks are available in English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, Italian, and Portuguese on the Kobo store. As a result, you can read many more types of files on the Aura H2O than you can on the Kindle. The Kobo Aura H2O supports all the usual ebook formats, including EPUB, EPUB3, PDF, MOBI, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIFF, TXT, HTML, RFT, CBZ, and CBR. That should keep even the most voracious reader satisfied. So you should be able to put 3,000 ebooks on the Kobo without a MicroSD card and an additional 30,000 ebooks with the card in. The Aura is powered by a 1GHz processor and comes with 4GB of internal storage, which can be expanded via a MicroSD card slot up to 32GB. The screen also looked great in full sunlight, which is something no tablet or smartphone can say. It doesn’t strain your eyes or blind you either, like some tablet or smartphone screens do in low light. It was easy to flip pages with a simple swipe or tap and we didn’t notice any delays.The Kobo features ComfortLight technology that makes it easier to read in the dark, much like the Paperwhite from Amazon. We really liked the larger screen for reading and found that we much preferred it to the smaller Kindle. The screen is front-lit and looks much whiter and brighter than the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite. The screen’s resolution comes in at 1430 x 1080 pixels with 265ppi (pixels per inch) to make text clear and easy to read. The Kobo Aura H2O has a 6.8-inch touchscreen with Carta E Ink technology. Overall, we think the Kobo Aura H2O looks classy and feels good to hold, though you’ll have to grip it with both hands. Since the Aura H2O is waterproof, the charging port and MicroSD card slot are covered by a flap, which seals the openings off from water and other elements. The bezels also make the device look squat and square from the front. The Aura’s design is sleek and comfortableĪlthough the bezels around the screen offer space to rest your thumbs, they are much bigger than we’d like and make using the device one-handed almost impossible.
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