KOBO AURA 2017 PRO

You can set it manually, too, if you feel like burning the midnight oil. The display gets noticeably yellower and warmer as the sun sets, then reverts back to a cool white in the morning. It varies the amount of blue light being pumped out depending on the time of day, so it doesn’t keep you awake when you’re reading at night.

KOBO AURA 2017 PRO

Kobo’s ComfortLight PRO adjustable backlight does make a return, though. These kinds of sensors are still rarer than hens’ teeth on e-readers, anyway, so it’s difficult to grumble given the price. You don’t get an ambient light sensor like you do with the Aura One, meaning you’ve got to tweak the backlight manually whenever you wake the H2O from sleep. It all looks fantastic on the E Ink Carta display, with luscious contrast that’s about as close as you can get to actually reading a plain old paperback. the H2O has 11 fonts, 50 different sizes and plenty of layout options to tweak until you’re happy.Īdobe’s eBook format also adds different fonts for different publishers, giving your books a lot more individuality than Amazon’s meagre few choices. Kobo has always gone for a more book-like layout in terms of spacing, numbering and page furniture, and that doesn’t change here. At 6.8in it’s noticeably larger than any current Kindle, and the 256ppi resolution helps keep images and text looking crisp – useful for graphic novels and digital comics. It doesn’t have the expansive display of the Aura One, but this second generation H2O still crams plenty of words on the screen.

Kobo aura 2017