All Kobo ereaders: beautiful bookstore run by beautifully literate people who love what they do and are so enthusiastic about reading they can only be let loose in the world under close supervision. Kobo Plus for unlimited monthly reading. Libby/OverDrive support right in the ereader. All waterproof, in case of pools, beaches or tears. Bluetooth support for audiobooks. Made as sustainably as we can make them.

Kobo Clara BW: (6" fits in a back pocket/jacket pocket) your love of eInk screens is pure and unadulterated by the need for chromatic distractions. The written word is black-and-white and all of the colour is in your imagination. The Carta 1300 screen is 🔥 if fire was very very crisp greyscale. Or you are a very literate dog, raccoon or dolphin that only sees in B&W but appreciates a fine reading experience

Kobo Clara Colour: (6" fits in your other back pocket/jacket pocket). 2023 called and wants its B&W screen back. The world is colourful 🌈, book jackets are beautiful, illustrations are glorious. All of a sudden your library stops being a list of files and becomes a *library*. The first time you come across a colour illustration after years of B&W ereaders, your heart will do a little skip. Engadget called it "the color ereader to beat" but under no circumstances should you beat your ereader.

Kobo Libra Colour: (7" fits in a generous jacket pocket, cargo pants, or a handbag) Bigger screen means graphic novels, manga, and cookbooks just pop 🌈. Great-feeling page-turn buttons. Add a stylus ✍️ and draw, write or highlight in colour on infinite notebooks or in the margins of your ebooks or across the page - only possible on a Kobo. Other ereaders get by with sticky notes, but we love the joyful chaos of doodling on any page we want. Dropbox & Google Drive to move files around.

Kobo Sage: (8" - we have left pocket territory and are now very much in handbag, shoulder bag, saddlebag or backpack*.) Back to beatiful B&W, but with luxurious amounts of crisp, sharp screen space, shockingly light at 240g, and the same amazing stylus and handwriting support as Libra Colour. Again with the Dropbox and Google Drive.(*That also means get a SleepCover to protect the screen from keys, ninja stars or whatever you have in your bag.)

Kobo Elipsa 2E: (10.3" - backpack, briefcase, bigger handbag, folio, shoulder bag). The best reading+writing ereader, so says The Verge, with condolences to our Seattle friends. Big enough for full sized manga, journal articles, PDFs, the manuscript you are editing, or just your own ebooks at bigger than full size! Definitely add a stylus and one of our excellent covers.

Last but not least: Everything is designed in Toronto, Canada. Made from recycled and ocean-bound plastics, including cases and packaging, but still designed to feel great in your hand. Origami SleepCovers that become their own stands for table-top reading. A business that is friendly to publishers and authors. Partnerships with bookstores. Love of, and support for libraries. Special fonts to support readers with dyslexia.

I could go on and on (I guess I have!) But if you get one take-away: We do this because we love it. We aren't selling you an ereader so we can also sell you an ad or office supplies or cloud computing. We love reading and want to make reading lives better, one person and one little ereader at a time. It is, without a doubt, one of the best jobs ever 😀 Hope this helps!!

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