![]() The Clara does outshine the Paperwhite in a couple of key areas, though-for one thing, it includes 8 GB of on-board storage, where the Paperwhite only offers 4. (Note that the Clara is monochrome e-ink, even though the screenshots I captured display a color interface that can’t actually be seen on the device itself.) ![]() The screen lighting is effectively identical (with the exception of the night-reading mode I describe below), and in terms of hardware there doesn’t seem to be any significant difference in screen readability between the two. It uses the same 6″ Carta 300 ppi e-ink touchscreen as the Paperwhite (probably literally the same screen, given that there just aren’t that many e-ink manufacturers out there), and is about the same size and weight. The Clara is Kobo’s answer to the Paperwhite line of Kindles-a frontlit, high-definition ereader that displays crisp, sharp text with a bright white background. The Basics The Clara HD’s font weight controls allow making any font a bold version of itself. All in all, if Amazon’s ecosystem isn’t important to you, you may actually find it to be a better device than the Kindle Paperwhite. I didn’t want to post a review until I’d had time to get to know it thoroughly, so I’ve been using it to read at work, at home, and other places. I’ve been using a Clara HD review unit for the last couple of weeks, ever since Kobo got it to me just about at the same time it launched. It’s not without its flaws, but it’s got some very decent features as well. But it’s still a pretty decent e-ink reader, and one of the only good e-ink options on the market for people who don’t want to deal with Amazon for one reason or another. Is the new $129.99 Kobo Clara HD going to spark a revolution and win the ereader market back from Amazon? Probably not. The Kobo reading interface includes a number of menu options at top and bottom revealed by touching the middle of the screen, including access to annotations, an in-book search, and dictionary.
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