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Kobo Forma vs Kobo Libra
April 19, 2025 | Author: Dhaval Parekh
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To make the reading experience better for ravenous booklovers who read for hours on end, and want a lightweight, portable alternative to heavy print books, we’ve delivered our most comfortable eReader yet with waterproof reliability, the choice of landscape or portrait mode, and the expanded access of book borrowing.
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Kobo Libra is the embodiment of your reading style. With more storage, a faster E Ink screen, and Bluetooth wireless technology so you can listen to Kobo Audiobooks, Kobo Libra is an integral part of your rich reading life. Packed with features and personality and storage for all of your eBooks Kobo Libra was made to do more. An ergonomic design keeps your reading life on hand and page turn buttons keep the story going while you sip your coffee, stir your signature pasta sauce, or nurse your newborn so you can read on and on, no matter what.
Both Kobo Forma and Kobo Libra are, in a manner of speaking, rectangular gateways to vast alternate dimensions made entirely of words. They shine softly in the dark with their ComfortLight PRO, like polite alien lanterns that know you're trying to read. They are waterproof, which is excellent news if you enjoy reading underwater or frequently drop things in the bath out of existential dread. They politely support every eBook format you’ve ever heard of and a few you haven’t and they both spring forth from the enlightened minds at Rakuten Kobo, a company located in the improbably snowy reaches of Canada.
Kobo Forma is the elder statesman of e-readers — larger, thinner and more expensive, like a premium lounge chair for your eyeballs. It has an 8-inch screen, which makes it perfect for reading serious things like legal PDFs, 17th-century poetry or very large-print editions of "How to Read More Books." Its page-turn buttons are spacious enough to double as emergency landing pads for moths. It was clearly designed for the type of person who schedules their reading time with the same precision NASA uses to launch rockets.
Kobo Libra, on the other hand, is the plucky younger sibling who wants to tag along everywhere. Its 7-inch screen is snug in the hand, as if it were engineered by people who understood humans have thumbs. It’s practical, affordable and unlikely to make you feel guilty for not finishing Ulysses. The Libra is the sort of device you'd lend to your friend who's just discovered that books don't have to be made of trees. It still turns pages with satisfying clicks and offers all the features of its fancier sibling — just without the looming air of literary responsibility.
Kobo Forma is the elder statesman of e-readers — larger, thinner and more expensive, like a premium lounge chair for your eyeballs. It has an 8-inch screen, which makes it perfect for reading serious things like legal PDFs, 17th-century poetry or very large-print editions of "How to Read More Books." Its page-turn buttons are spacious enough to double as emergency landing pads for moths. It was clearly designed for the type of person who schedules their reading time with the same precision NASA uses to launch rockets.
Kobo Libra, on the other hand, is the plucky younger sibling who wants to tag along everywhere. Its 7-inch screen is snug in the hand, as if it were engineered by people who understood humans have thumbs. It’s practical, affordable and unlikely to make you feel guilty for not finishing Ulysses. The Libra is the sort of device you'd lend to your friend who's just discovered that books don't have to be made of trees. It still turns pages with satisfying clicks and offers all the features of its fancier sibling — just without the looming air of literary responsibility.
