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the16bitgamer@lemmy.world 6 months agoI have both (cuz I’m selling the case and needed to test), and I’m working on a video review for it.
Tldw for the video is this. Clara BW is a Clara 2e, processor, ram, and storage are spec exactly the same, even the power button and sleep sensor is the same position. It only took me 9 days to make these since I reused the sleep cover from my 2e case design. However it’s a little snappier, making it on par with the latest Kindle for books. Still slow for comics.
The e-reader shown is the Clara color, despite the spec bump feels exactly the same as the Clara BW. Unless you read colored books like magazines, comics, or textbooks it’s not worth the upgrade. Kobo really needed more than 16GB of storage.
That said I was never a fan of Kobo so the Clara color is the first one I actually like.
Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Thanks, that’s interesting to know. Personally I never had an issue with the 16GB but I mainly read epubs so space isn’t that much of a concern for me. I can see why that would be different on a color model which would also be used for comic books.
If you don’t like kobo, which brand do you prefer? My previous reader was a tolino, which nowadays is almost the same hardware as a kobo but android based instead of linux. Personally I much prefer the kobo over that one.
the16bitgamer@lemmy.world 6 months ago
16GB is more than enough for most written books, ranging from 1-3MB. But for comics they can range from 93MB to 250MB or more. As such while you can have 5000+ Books on your Kobo, you can only have 65 comics, and considering how large some manga series are, that’s not enough to keep everything on the same device.
My gripe with Kobo is how they organize their books, and while I could organize them into collections, for DRM free books, they don’t store them in the system, so if I remove and re-add a book to my e-reader, I have to manually re-add them to the collection. But in truth no e-reader is perfect, the closest I found is the Pocketbook, since they offer SD Card support, but I opted for the Onyx Boox Nova 3 Color. I like the fact I can write on it, like a remarkable tablet, it’s running Android so I can get a lot of utility out of it. But I don’t like the fact that it’s a chinese android tablet stuck on Android 10 with no OS updates in sight, and the lack of Micro SD Card support (though USB support is nice).
You win some you loose some.
Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Oh yes, the organization is inconvenient if you sideload stuff. The tolino I had automatically grouprd books in the same folder into a collection.
I managed to get something similar working with the autoshelf mod on the kobo but it is inconvenient that it is not a default feature. On the upside, I can also use the autoshelf mod to parse series information based on the books filename
the16bitgamer@lemmy.world 6 months ago
New ones can’t ifixit shows that it’s soldered in now. No easy storage upgrades (and I would’ve totally done it too).
I2jgwh0hYtxrCZQ@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
I ended up using Koreader on a Kobo as it lets you browse via folders.
I can copy the books onto it in my preferred folder structure and just browse them as required.
LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Do you have more information you can share on this auto shelf mod?