Pros: Fantastic display, good backlight, relatively intuitive controls.
Cons: Touchscreen response is not perfect. Micro USB instead of USB C.
Overall for the price I'm really liking it. It's been a long time since I had an ereader and clearly large strides have been made over the last decade on the hardware side. I've got very good vision and the display is really sharp with only occasional ghosting. Lots of typeface options make it customizable for any preference I can possibly imagine.
I've only been playing with it for a few hours and I'm sure there's plenty more to discover both good and bad, but I'm really only interested in using it for its primary purpose - as an electronic book reader.
I like that you can just drop EPUB files over USB. It's quick and it just works.
Can't speak on the battery life since it's my first day messing around with it. I've got the brightness at 10% in my dimly lit apartment and it's both clear and easy on the eyes. The matte screen does a good job diffusing glare from overhead lights.
Build quality and heft are both great. This thing is sturdy, though I'll probably get a case for it anyway just to keep it from getting beat up.
One last thing: It tells you that you can adjust the brightness by gesturing up and down at the left edge. If you really hug the edge, it doesn't work well. If you move about a half inch in, it works almost every time.
Even though it has some minor imperfections, nothing has been annoying enough to turn me off of it.
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This Item  Kobo Clara HD | eReader | 6" Glare Free Touchscreen | Adjustable Brightness & Colour Temperature | WiFi | 8GB of Storage | Carta E Ink Technology (Clara HD) |  |  |  |  | |
| Price | $109.99 | -13% $349.99 Typical: $399.99 | -9% $99.99 Typical price: $109.99 | -22% $219.00 List: $279.00 | $142.00 |
| Delivery | — | — | Get it May 8 - 13 | Get it as soon as Saturday, May 11 | Get it May 10 - 16 |
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| Sold By | PriceWhack Refurbished | BlueProton | BlueProton | POCKETBOOK INTERNATIONAL | Acute Tek (We Record SN) |
| display size | 6 inches | 10.3 inches | 6 inches | 9.7 inches | 6 inches |
| display technology | Electronic Ink | Electronic Ink | Electronic Ink | Electronic Ink | Electronic Ink |
| memory capacity | 8 GB | 32 GB | 8 GB | 8 GB | 4 GB |
| connectivity tech | Wi-Fi | Wi-Fi, Bluetooth | — | Wi-Fi | Wi-Fi |
| file format | PNG, MOBI, HTML, EPUB, CBR, PDF, CBZ, TXT, JPEG, TIFF, GIF, BMP, RTF | PDF | — | CBR, CBZ, PDF, FB2, JPEG, DOC, EPUB | — |
| input interface | touch screen | touch screen, touch screen | touch screen | touch screen, buttons | touch pad |
| bluetooth technology | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| weight | 5.9 ounces | 13.62 ounces | 5.9 ounces | — | 0.2 kilograms |
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Enjoy a natural, print-like reading experienceA 6" glare-free high-definition touchscreen makes reading even more enjoyable. |
Get the perfect light day or nightComfortLight PROs blue light reduction allows for a better nights sleep. |
Carry up to 6,000 eBooks everywhere you goWith 8GB of storage, Kobo Clara HD accommodates even the largest of libraries. |
The perfect reading companion
Read without any glare Unlike your tablet or smartphone, Kobo Clara HD's 6" screen is glare-free - which means you can read in direct sunlight, just like real paper.
How can Kobo Clara HD take your reading life even further?
- Battery life that last weeks
- Built-in OverDrive for library book borrowing
- Save and read articles with Pocket
- Customizable fonts, margins, built-in dictionary and more
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| Price | $109.99 | $239.99 | — | — | $89.99 |
| Screen size & type | 6” HD E Ink Carta touchscreen | 8” HD, flush E Ink Carta 1200 touchscreen | 7” HD E Ink Carta 1200 touchscreen | 10.3” E Ink Carta1200 touchscreen | 6” E Ink Carta touchscreen |
| Screen resolution | 300 PPI | 300 PPI | 300 PPI | 227 PPI | 212 PPI |
| Landscape mode | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Page-turn buttons | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Storage | 8GB | 32GB | 32GB | 32GB | 8GB |
| Dropbox support | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Battery life | Weeks of battery life | Weeks of battery life | Weeks of battery life | Weeks of battery life | Weeks of battery life* |
| Waterproof | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Light | ComfortLight PRO – adjust brightness and colour temperature for blue light reduction | ComfortLight PRO – adjust brightness and colour temperature for blue light reduction | ComfortLight PRO – adjust brightness and colour temperature for blue light reduction | ComfortLight – one colour light to adjust brightness | ComfortLight – one colour light to adjust brightness |
| Color Options | Black | Black | Black or White | Midnight Blue | Black |
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One To Get, For Your First Kobo.
This is the best Kobo e-reader I've had, since I decided that it'll be my first one too. It's light enough to hold, sharp and clear screen and I don't really have to worry about how long the battery holds up. So far, it's been 3 weeks since I use it, and it still have 50 percent charge left. Not a voracious reader myself, but so far it's been good. I get the idea of why to some, but yeah, the power button placement is a sore to my eyes. My mind always wondered to this button, every single reading time while holding the device. It's annoying most of the time really. It's not completely flushed with the frame, so there's always that worries that I might accidentally press it. Another thing is, I don't know why but I don't see the Overdrive option on my Kobo setting. While it does mentioned about the Overdrive support. I'm totally fine so far with it's not there in the settings menu, but that's one of the reasons I bought Kobo in the first place. Anyway, I just passed the idea of having it on mine, as I'm happily enough to get all my e-books elsewhere and still be able to read. Only used the WiFi to update all the purchased books I have and progress, nothing else. If all you need is only for reading books, with not much graphics involved, the it's all good. It'll be my only e-reader for a long time until it brake down I guess. Kindle are too popular and doesn't support ePub really. I just need an e-reader that is not Kindle, and read books on.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2022
Expanding memory may require a factory reset which ERASES ALL DATA on the device
Here's how:
Step 1: Pop the back cover off (I used my finger nail and then an old credit card to lift up the cover from the device).
Step 2: Slide out the microSD card from the slot, mine was originally a 16GB card, with an 8GB partition.
Step 3: Connect the microSD card to the computer and make an image of the card, (I used DD on Ubuntu) windows users can use this app: https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
Step 4: Pop in your larger capacity microSD (preformatted to fat32)to your computer and write the image of the previous microSD to it.
Step 5: Expand the third partition on the microSD (the one with the larger capacity) to fill the rest of microSD's capacity.
Step 6: Pop it back in to your Kobo Clara HD. It will be unstable, so you have to perform a factory reset first, once you do, it will work perfectly fine.
Edit 2022: successfully upgraded memory to 128 GB
Color: Clara HDVerified Purchase
Comes with 8 GB of storage, but expandable if you know how
Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2022
Sharp picture quality, great format support and the memory is expandable, with a bit of tinkering.Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2022
Expanding memory may require a factory reset which ERASES ALL DATA on the device
Here's how:
Step 1: Pop the back cover off (I used my finger nail and then an old credit card to lift up the cover from the device).
Step 2: Slide out the microSD card from the slot, mine was originally a 16GB card, with an 8GB partition.
Step 3: Connect the microSD card to the computer and make an image of the card, (I used DD on Ubuntu) windows users can use this app: https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
Step 4: Pop in your larger capacity microSD (preformatted to fat32)to your computer and write the image of the previous microSD to it.
Step 5: Expand the third partition on the microSD (the one with the larger capacity) to fill the rest of microSD's capacity.
Step 6: Pop it back in to your Kobo Clara HD. It will be unstable, so you have to perform a factory reset first, once you do, it will work perfectly fine.
Edit 2022: successfully upgraded memory to 128 GB
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Donny L
User-friendly, packed with features, and provides an exceptional reading experience
Reviewed in Canada on January 23, 2024Color: Clara HDVerified Purchase
doug jones
Easy to use.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 17, 2023Color: Clara HDVerified Purchase
