Wanted to cut down on doom scrolling and brainrot and nurture myself with reading again. Its a problem for sure that wouldn't go away soon but wanted to change that.

Tried with xiaomi pad 6 previously but its just too heavy. Now the kobo clara is just perfect! Light and handy. Glad i choose this over the kindle basic.

Currently reading dont sweat the small stuff. Should have read this years ago! Me and my wife would read a chapter and discuss our thought. Great way to bond.

Some nail sticker my wife added and named them ko and bo.

Happy reading all!

Hi! I bought a Kobo Clara BW last October 6. I’m having a great experience and honestly can’t say anything bad about my girl, but recently I’ve been itching to switch to the Kobo Clara Colour.

Is it worth the upgrade? I’ve been seeing quite a few complaints online saying the KCC screen isn’t as sharp or bright as the BW version because of the color layer.

For those who have tried or owned both, is the switch worth it, or should I stick with my BW? Thanks in advance!

i've been trying to downgrade my libra, when look up some tutorial and install the files to put it in the device folder, i turn the wifi on the kobo off, and once it's downgrade, my kobo battery drained eventhough before that the battery is full. I try to plug the charger in but the device seems to not connect to the power. What should i do?

Has anyone noticed their kobo got much slower, like seeing loading screen more often and takes a lot longer. Even just to change a font I sometimes, not always, see a loading screen for 3-5seconds and sometimes even longer. And after the font size is changed the margin is off like letters are outside the screen. And have to go into sleep mode and come back to display correctly. At times even going to sleep mode takes time it's like lagging.

Is it just me?

I've done factory reset couple of times. But same issue. No side loaded books or fonts.

Long story short, I’ve already successfully side loaded over 250 epubs wirelessly using senddjazz.se. That site no longer loads for me and it reroutes to bookdrop.cc. That page won’t load on my kobo to start the wireless connection, and it just shows what appears in the attached photo. I tried using send2ereader.net and that’s not working either. I keep getting an error that says “the file contents do not match the file type”. Please forgive my post, I know there are a lot about this, but they all seem to end in people being able to get this to work, but nothing I’m doing is working. I’ve tried restarting my kobo but apart from that are there any tips I need to know? I’m relatively new to kobo so maybe I’m overlooking something? Thanks in advance.

So I’ve had my KCC for a few months now and really enjoying it (previously had a Kindle Paperwhite). Fully aware of the differences between the Paperwhite screen and Kaleido 3 re. darkness and LED placement etc., but one thing that’s bugged me from day one is this kind of shadowy/cooler triangle on the bottom half of the screen. It’s mostly noticeable with the warm light on - the photo is on 50% light and 50% warmth. Now the days are getting shorter and I’m reading more at night it’s something I’m noticing more… I’ve searched through this sub but haven’t seen many posts talking about this - it a normal thing to just live with (which I can do!), or is it more likely a fault and worth trying to get a replacement?

Hello, I want to ask for some people's opinions. I live in Canada and have had a Kindle basic for a few years. It works fine, but after I bought it, I realised that a Kobo is better if you live in Canada because you can borrow books directly from Libby?

If anyone has experience with this I'd greatly appreciate it. As well as some recommendations where to buy one? And if it's actually that easy to borrow books through a library and have it sync to your Kobo?

Thanks in advance!

Libby updated, and I had to use a pin number to borrow a book on my phone. Later, when I tried accessing the book on my kobo it didn't display the book at all (it actually still has a book checked out that I already returned on my phone). I assume things got unsynced with Libby update so I removed then re-added my card from my kobo, but the book still isn't displaying. I also turned my device on and off again. Has anyone else had this problem and know how to fix it?

Anyone have any recent experience purchasing a book (either using PayPal or gift card) outside of their geolocation by changing their account address, completing the purchase, downloading said book, then changing their address back to their home country? Once they swapped back to their home country did the book disappear from their collection? Was it still accessible to read? I dont know how dated this process is so looking to the community for any insights/ updates

Title pretty much sums it up. I thought based on other posts about this topic that it would have something to do with the buttons being pressed in sleep mode, maybe by the case cover, but I just closed it and set it on a table face up for not even 5 minutes, opened it back up and it was about 5 pages ahead.

Anyone have an idea as to why this is happening?

How is it 0 mins until full charge, is this an issue with my charger or is the software bugged and I need to factory reset it ?

Does Kobo honor audiobook refunds? There is a book that I want to purchase but it is $25.99 on Kobo but it is $9.99 on Spotify. Will they price match Spotify??

I reached out to Kobo but still waiting to hear back from them. I have never done a refund for an audiobook, only ebooks...

I'm having an issue with my Kobo: it doesn't recognize my subscription, but if I go on the Website, everything works as expected. I can download for free the books that fall under my subscription and membership (VIP).

I checked my Account information. It says my subscription is active.

I synchronize my reader regularly.

What am I missing?

Hi everyone! I’ve had my Clara Colour for two years now, and I absolutely love it. However, I sometimes look at my partner’s Kobo Sage and notice that its screen looks much sharper.

My question is: is it worth upgrading from the Clara to the Libra? I’m interested in the note-taking features with the stylus, but I’m not sure how much use I’d actually get out of them.

Does the Libra’s screen look any better than the Clara’s? Or would I be better off going for a black-and-white e-reader?

so I plugged in my kobo clara colour to transfer over some books from calibre like usual. when i ejected the device via calibre, my kobo "woke up" and was logged out and wiped clean of all the books/data on there. It then re-started to the "choose your language" page... I have absolutely no clue what i did to prompt this. I've been using kobo + calibre since 2024 and is quite used to this. Note that i just updated the firmware before plugging it into my macbook.

Hello,

My son (11 y/o) loves to read Manga, and he bought a kobo libra (b&w) with money he earned/received over holidays last year. He's had it since around x-mas time, and it's generally working as advertised. However recently - he's having issues with the books he wants to read loading onto his kobo. Some info here... while I have my own kobo all my books are downloaded directly to my device from my computer, so I don't run into the same issues and don't know enough to help him more than I've tried already.

Book source: Overdrive/Libby using our public library

How he finds books: he uses the search option on the kobo itself and either borrows or puts on hold

What's happening: more and more frequently, when he tries to borrow a book, he gets an error message saying he can't download from libby right now, and to try again later. We've then tried off my iPhone with his login info for the library (both the library app and the libby app) and the book borrows flawlessly, but it won't then sync with his kobo after we press the sync button.

We've tried this approach both with books he hasn't read before, and with books he HAS read before, since I have read sometimes it won't work if the compatibility for the specific ebook doesn't match what is in the kobo store.

Our library allows up to 75 books to be taken out/put on hold at a time. He has gotten his list up to 71 at times, but hovers around 50 books at a time (yes it sounds like a lot, but these are short manga books, he reads like 3-5 a night)

Fixes we've tried:
1. borrow directly from libby and then sync to device --> has NEVER worked when we tried this approach

1. log out of libby/overdrive, and then log back in --> sometimes starts working again for a few days, then stops working again

2. login to his kobo account, delete ALL BOOKS out of his archive (this took a while), and then try again --> this didn't really seem to solve much, but it did allow him to borrow books he had previously borrowed and then returned with less issue

3. create a brand new kobo account and start from scratch --> clearly here i am writing this message, so this didn't seem to solve the problem either.

Any help/guidance/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. My poor kid just wants to read his books!

I turned the WiFi on my Kobo on so I could look up a book in the shop and I keep getting this network error message.

I’ve turned the device on and off again, turned the WiFi on and off, forgot the network to reconnect, tried my mobile hotspot and updated my Kobo (synced over WiFi, which somehow worked!) and it still gives me this message.

It’s also worth noting that it shows as connected to both my hotspot and then my WiFi when I click on them.

Any ideas?

Given the very slow update frequency from the Kobo team I'm not holding up much hope for update schedule that Kobo have (slow!)

But currently the reading experience on iOS Kobo app is very very poor compared with Apple Books.

Now I know that the Duo is a niche product and very low number of users, but it's an ideal formfactor for reading and should really be an exemplar for ebooks.

Does anyone have the app on the Android foldables - have they updated the app for those?

Hey folks,

Has anyone got paywalls articles sharing nicely on their Kobo via Instapaper?

I read a bunch of The Verge but sharing doesn’t work properly because it’s behind a paywall, which I subscribe to but I’m not even sure where to look to try anything.

UPDATE: It was available after lunch time(?), enjoy the read friends <3

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Dear readers community,

Kobo IT is currently having an issue displaying the ACOSH preorder. ╰（‵□′）╯

I contacted the customer service and got told it is their problem - the agent also told me they've escalated it internally.

Is anyone else experiencing the same problem?

No clue when it wil be available. :(((((

Since my previous post asking for help with this issue was flooded with downvotes, I’d like to explain more clearly what I mean when I talk about spacing problems and also share the solutions I’ve found.

I’ve attached screenshots showing the different justification settings. Each image indicates which type of justification I used and highlights where the problems occur. I’ve always used the same words as a reference, so it’s easier to see the differences in how they are rendered on screen.

• Justification OFF: This is the issue I was talking about. As you can see in the corresponding image, on the SAME line, the words have DIFFERENT spacing between them. When there is a punctuation mark, the words tend to be closer together;
• Justification Left: This one hardly even needs commenting on. In my opinion, this kind of alignment is simply unsuitable for a book;
• Justification FULL: Words are hyphenated and wrapped onto the next line, but the spacing issue is still there. Just look at the image.

Honestly, I find it absurd that proprietary software behaves like this and is unable to produce properly spaced text.

So how do you fix it? Apparently, it took people outside the project, working for free, to improve the software of a company that sells these devices.

Here are the two solutions I found:

• First solution: NickelTypeFix

After installing NickelTypeFix, the spacing is immediately rendered correctly, as you can see in the image. It also brings several other improvements, including faster chapter changes.

• Second solution: KOReader

This is honestly a game changer. KOReader is incredible in terms of what it can do. With all its plugins and customization options, you can really make the reader behave and look exactly the way you want. The learning curve is steeper, but once you understand how it works, there’s simply no comparison.

At this point, I have to wonder why developers who are actually paid to work on a project can’t achieve what other people are doing for free.

What surprised me even more was the reaction when I first mentioned this here. A whole crowd of fanboys jumped in to defend what is clearly a flaw in Nickel, Kobo’s stock reader, claiming that this behaviour is perfectly normal.

I hope these solutions can be useful to someone.

So, I recently fell in love with reading books and I tried out my gf kobo which is the color version. Its very cool however, im stuck deciding if i wanna go for the BW model or spend the few extra for the colour. The reason why this is becoming a though decision is because I mostly read classics that almost never have any art inside the book itself. But I do plan on taking notes on the kobo so idk if the colour model will be better for this use-case.

I read pretty much everything on a Kobo, but papers always stayed on my laptop. Two-column PDFs on a 6" screen are just painful.

So I spent some evenings making a converter that turns the PDF into an EPUB. The text reflows, the equations go through LaTeX, and you can tap the citations. It's not perfect. Scanned PDFs don't work, and I'm sure some layouts will break it, but for most arXiv stuff it's been working well for me.

It's free and there's no login, so if anyone else has the same problem: paper2epub.com

If you try it and something comes out weird, tell me and I'll take a look.

I'm looking at switching from a really old Kindle to a Kobo Clara. I have a lot of public domain ebooks downloaded in epub format.

On Kindle, sideloading these by cable can cause problems (they don't get recognised as books, or they get randomly deleted.) The official 'Send to Kindle' tool is the better way to transfer these files.

On Kobo, as far as I can tell, there is no official tool (since the Google Drive integration inexplicably isn't available on Clara.) I've seen options to sideload by cable or with third-party tools like send.djazz.se. Do either of these cause any problems, like on Kindle, with how the Kobo handles the files?

Hello, I've owned a KLC for almost a year now but it's my first time to actually purchase via pre-order from the Kobo store. It's already the 27th here in my country and I'm still waiting for my pre-order of A Court of Splintered Harmony by SJM. Around what time should I expect it to be released so I can finally read it in my Kobo? 🙏🏻