The birth (or death) of a relative, the release of a new program, game, series, movie, the date you were dreaming about, could be anything
The birth (or death) of a relative, the release of a new program, game, series, movie, the date you were dreaming about, could be anything
oh its the kobo libra colour and libra 2.
Heres my unasked for review of sorts of both just for the hell of it…
The colour is probably about 1mm reduced in outer shell with the same screen dimensions but slightly different usb location so cases dont carry over perfectly. I’m still using the old case for the time being but being careful not let it pop out.
The libra 2 I’ve had since 2022 and pampered the damned thing but hilariously close to the release of the colour models the screen died. It would still be an excellent device that I’d be using otherwise. I have carried it in my jacket’s tablet pocket with my tablet and kobo’s screens facing each other, the kobo in the magnetic cover case and a piece of microfiber wrapped cardboard between them. somehow it must have gotten imperceptibility bent and ruined the screen recently between home and work. To the best of my knowledge there is no replacement part for the bw screen.
The Libra 2 screen has fewer layers compared to the colour so white is whiter, imagine stacking screen protectors until it starts to darken or making a mirror tunnel and comparing how it gets darker the deeper in it goes. The colours arent super vibrant but it’s still pretty cool and more mind boggling how it doesn’t drain more power once drawn even compared to the previous gen panels. Picture is no backlight night mode in a dim room.
I’m a little bitter and wouldn’t recommend the libra 2 in hindsight but it’s not available any more. The colour has the disadvantage of case incompatibility and darker white but with the black shell it’s not very noticeable because of the contrast. The latest models, kobo libra colour and clara colour/bw, have repair parts available through ifixit (except for clara bw screen it seems) for actually pretty reasonable prices. Kobo itself has seemingly no tech support for the english speaking world and their own site as well as their twitter seem to be bots that give you the runaround on every topic. They released the linux kernel sources for older models but not for the new devices and not for some previous models and revisions so other linux distro projects like quill os are potentially hindered.