![]() While Rakuten can’t match Amazon’s exhaustive and ever-growing library, it still has four million titles on offer, and few major modern releases are missing. This is a touch patronising, especially since most people who make an effort to buy a dedicated e-reader don’t need to be reminded to read.īut otherwise the usability and content on offer is pretty good. Kobo Glo HD boasts the same tile-based homescreen as its siblings, providing an easy way to get an overview of what you’re reading and a reasonably unintrusive way for Kobo to suggest new titles to readers.įor some reason, Kobo likes to give you obscure stats and achievement badges related to how much you’ve read and how quickly you’ll finish a book. Even comics remain sharp after multiple page turns. If you opt to have pages refresh every five to ten pages, response times are even quicker, and there’s little to no apparent ghosting. Even with the Kobo set to fully refresh with every page turn, it doesn’t feel too sluggish. Fans of physical buttons will be disappointed, but turning the page over with a flick of the thumb doesn’t take much getting used to. Page turns using the infrared touchscreen are quick and simple, too. In this respect, as Rakuten promises, it really does feel like you’re reading from the printed page. The E Ink Carta display delivers crisp and sharp text against a bright white background. And, occasionally, I’d accidently switch off the light completely, unable to turn it back up until I’d switched on a nearby light to see what I was doing.ĭespite that black mark, reading on the Kobo Glo HD is a pleasurable experience. Countless times I would switch the Glo on in a dark room only to be blinded by the light. However, automatic brightness – a feature found on the Kindle Voyage – is conspicuous by its absence. That’s slightly behind the Kindle Voyage’s 134cd/m2, but it still whitens the screen nicely in the daytime and leaves enough adjustment to make reading in darker conditions comfortable. It has an integrated light that, with the brightness kicked up to full, beams out at a respectable maximum luminance of 115cd/m2. It has a 6in, 1,448 x 1,072 E Ink Carta screen with a pixel density of 300ppi – the same as the far more expensive Kindle Voyage. In terms of what it offers for the money, the Kobo Glo HD is a highly enticing product.
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