Kobo Nia | eReader | 6” Glare Free Touchscreen |
Kobo Nia | eReader | 6” Glare Free Touchscreen | Adjustable Brightness | Thin & Light | eBooks | WIFI | 8GB of Storage | Carta E Ink Technology | Black
Our friendliest eReader yet
Escape into a story, learn something new, and remember why reading is fun. Kobo Nia’s a big deal in a small package: you can carry up to 6,000 eBooks with its 8GB of storage. Bask in the sun with your favorite read on its glare-free 6” touchscreen, or snuggle up with a bedtime story thanks to adjustable ComfortLight. Read as much as you’d like with Kobo Nia’s long battery life, where a single charge can last for weeks. And when you’re ready for your next read, the Kobo eBookstore is open 24/7 right on your eReader.
How can Kobo Nia take your reading life even further?
- Battery life that lasts for weeks
- Built-in OverDrive for library book borrowing
- Save and read online articles with Pocket
- Customizable fonts, margins, built-in dictionary and more
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| Screen size & type | 10.3” E Ink Carta1200 touchscreen | 8″ HD, flush E Ink Carta 1200 touchscreen | 7″ HD E Ink Carta 1200 touchscreen | 6″ HD E Ink Carta 1200 touchscreen | 6″ E Ink Carta touchscreen |
| Screen resolution | 227 PPI | 300 PPI | 300 PPI | 300 PPI | 212 PPI |
| Landscape mode | X | ✓ | ✓ | X | X |
| Page-turn buttons | X | ✓ | ✓ | X | X |
| Storage | 32GB | 32GB | 32GB | 16GB | 8GB |
| Dropbox support | ✓ | ✓ | X | X | X |
| Battery life | Weeks of battery life | Weeks of battery life | Weeks of battery life | Weeks of battery life | Weeks of battery life |
| Waterproof | X | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Light | ComfortLight PRO – adjust brightness and color temperature for blue light reduction | ComfortLight PRO – adjust brightness and color temperature for blue light reduction | ComfortLight PRO – adjust brightness and color temperature for blue light reduction | ComfortLight PRO – adjust brightness and color temperature for blue light reduction | ComfortLight – one color light to adjust brightness |
| Colour Options | Black | Black | Black, White | Deep Ocean Blue | Black |
It is a good size, the touch screen works beautifully and does not reflect the sun. You can resize the print and store thousands of books on it. And the Kobo store has a massive choice in a number of languages.
To make the battery last for a couple of months of daily reading you should keep the wi-fi turned off.
Criticism- the on -off button is made of a cheese-like substance that is seriously losing out in the daily contact with my thumbnail and wearing down after only a couple of weeks.
However when you connect to your library on the Kobo, it doesn’t let you borrow books directly. For that you must use a separate device (Kobo browser is pretty much unusable). Log into ‘Libby’ online with your library ID and then borrow books through that. Then back on your Kobo, using your same library ID to connect to Overdrive, you simply sync and the borrowed books in Libby should appear in My Books on the Kobo.
I believe this is because Libby is the same as Overdrive or is the new name for it. Not exactly sure.
I gather you can also use Borrowbox or other apps, but as they aren’t built into Kobo, you have to download and authorise through Adobe Digital Editions which I couldn’t get to work and just seemed like a faff.
As for the device itself, it’s pretty much the same as the cheaper end Kindles. Similar to those, there is a small amount of lag sometimes which is why I wouldn’t give it 5 stars. But overall a good purchase and my daughter (10) loves it.
This is lighter and super comfortable to hold
Sometimes it gets a bit slow but you can’t compare that to the chance to upload any kind of documents just connecting to the computer..you can also link your device to the public library and get books directly on it.
Love the built in light, was worried it was going to be hard to read but I was surprised to see it’s much better than expected..
I definitely recommend and will get another once this dies 🙂
I mean a 4-6 week battery (if you don’t read in the dark) is amazing. The quality is great the only fault is it’s menus and picture loading is quite slow but it’s a given with other book readers.