Kobo Clara 2e World's First Recycled e-Reader | Review
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2024
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I'd be a lot more impressed if it allowed quick, easy and inexpensive battery replacement when the battery finally dies. That would make it truly recyclable. The rest is eye-wash.
True, recycled materials are a bare minimum, just so that the product can appear "eco friendly". It would be so much better, if you could easily replace the screen, battery, etc.
Plastic recycling is a PR lie from the plastic industry anyway. Only PET plastic can be recycled and only ONCE! After that it's going to go onto the pile with the rest anyway. And recycled plastic is of much poorer quality too. Recycling is a feelgood lie nothing more.
@@DeltaNovum afaik, PET, PP and HDPE can be recycled, the rest is too difficult, expensive or impossible to recycle
@@johndumpling1896 you are correct. It's still a very small subset of all the plastics out there. And they can still only be recycled just one time. And only when they melt in some new plastics.
Exactly. Integrated batteries are a hoax.
My current kobo is about 5 years old. Thanks for this review. I will be ordering this shortly!
So feature packed. Way to go Kobo!
Amazing device!! took my attention the beta feature to take note!! I would like to know which stylus would be compatible with the Clara 2E... Any advice?
Can I put a pop socket on it? I'll probably still get it, but would love to be able to put one on.
4:00 "And , if you're wondering, 300 ppi is 300 ppi, sure, but when you condense a screen and you have a more dense ratio between the width and the height of the actual pixels it is more smooth". No, it's not. A 7.8-inch 300 ppi screen has the same density of pixels as a 6-inch 300 ppi screen. That's what ppi means.
Yes, I think he is confused with resolution. A 5" 1080p device will look sharper than a 6" 1080p device, because the former will have a higher ppi.
Are you able to put books onto this device manually (ebups, pdfs, etc) while offline and read them without an internet connection?
Yes you can. I had a bunch of books on Epub format and connected the Kobo directly to my computer, drag and drop, and voila! All my books are now on Kobo. No internet required to read them
@@bertino1 nicceeee, thanks!
I need one side to be like kobo Libra for easy hold while reading. I wish they will do that. This wll be a monster ereader
What about playing custom mp3in background while reading? Is it possible?
No, it only plays audio book files you buy from the Kobo store.
perfect step in the right direction. it had me at note taking. i mean the market for a lottle mite book like this is right here. all i need it a good app with organizing and quick saves. i mean pressure or no pressure. it is a very welcome device in the eink platform. im noit asakkimg foir much besides somethingbthat works. i may just get this with a reader as the extra feature if it. had better organizing which would be an easy software update. I'll be. watching this one for now in.
Can I borrow library books with this? I live in UK
Yes, Kobo is library friendly unlike Amazon Kindle which only supports American libraries
Um..no Thursday live??
Can I buy from rakuten Japan store from outside of Japan?
Yes of course, you can buy this in approximately 60 countries.
@@goodereader thanks!
What would you suggest, this one, the Clara 2e or the Libra 2?
If you read manga, go for the bigger screen with the Libra 2.
@@gingeroots1405 thanks, I will go with the Libra 2 🤓
I dont need it. I have a Libra 2 and a Kindle Basic with light (last gen 160ppi) ....
But i want this Kobo anyway 😛
Looks like there's no Dropbox integration, Is there?
Nope.
Is the display crispier than Libra 2?
They said so. Crispest Kobo ever.
@@akanten thank you for your reply, sir :)
what about boox, which one is better
Wish it was one color still
i actually like the look of it more than my current kobo.
Does this Clara 2e use a USB-C charger?
Yes.
I almost got this but I splurged for the Sage
Just went to indigo to see the devices. This is a good upgrade for people that still has an old e-reader that is not longer supported. But for people that do not see the value. It is the most expensive tech that does not have a purpose.
Music? Anyone know?
Shazam!
I know music. I listen to music often.
Brand new, charged battery fully, downloaded one book, read 23 pages and it is now dead. Can't do anything with it, it is frozen.
If only it was 8" instead, then it would be perfect.
Depends, I actually prefer it this way since it can easily fit in a pocket
My phone is big enough for me to spend my whole day doomscrolling some times. So, a 6" reader is about double the size and a book is much better timepast for me. A waterproof small e-book reader whom I can carry anywhere is gold. Thats why I went for a small one. Still about the same page size as a pocket book, but with zoom. So good enough by far for me.
I've changed my Kobo Clara HD for a Kobo Forma, now I miss the Clara because I can't take the Forma easily on any pocket.
The make an 8" e-reader, the Kobo Sage. Why would they make two models of the same size? The Nia is already pointless, I doubt they want to continue that trend.
Why NOT release a 10" ereader, to cater to the PDF folks? Why we have to spend on a note taking device, when we ONLY need reading ability in an e-ink device. PDF experience is better, if its 10"+ screens and there are many folks who need a device ONLY to read PDF books.
Why can't one e-ink manufacturer fill this gap in the market?
Facts right here!
Currently there are plenty of devices like that: Kindle Scribe, Kobo Elipsa, reMarkable 2, Onyx Books among many others
@@bipolarCapybara The devices mentioned have note taking abilities. I was asking for 10"+ screen for ONLY reading PDFs. NO note taking ability.
@@jmaruru But they're big and can read PDF comfortably? Don't understand why you'd want one thing exclusively?
Just got mine and I'm playing around with it, but so far, it's very underwhelming.
No way to sort files I put on manually, since it does not recognise folders.
Also, the UI is ridiculously slow and unresponsive and feels annoying to work with so far.
Not impressed at this point.
I think I figured a way to sort files by genre- just type the genre at the start of the file name so they are all grouped together and appear when you search genre specific keywords.
Still, it's a HUGE pain in the ass to have to do this instead of simply organizing by folder.
you're right, the software is astonishingly terrible in more regards than this
Hasn’t kobo had sketch for a really long time ? I know for a fact the Kobo Glo had it. It sucked, but, it had it.
In my country its 15% more expensive than kindle paperwhite 11. Makes no sense since both had the same feature and yet kindle had bigger screen by 0.8 inch.
.. meaning it wot fit to normal pocket like Clara does
The Amazon Kindle is made of recycled plastic and magnesium.
Clara 2e or libra 2
I AM TORN
Why in hell does it flickr in black/white... Yes, I know e-readers tend to do that. But it's just fkd up! I've epilepsy. Ridiculous!
I tried the Kobo Clara 2E and wanted to free myself of Amazon, but I am in total shock at how buggy and utterly broken the software is:
After starting in sideload mode, the device always showed some strange pre-installed book series that weren't from me and couldn't be deleted, because they were empty. But there are two pages of unknown authors and book series on the device. Even after several factory resets they're appearing as soon as the WiFi is connected and must be a remnant from some previous owner even though it's a brand new device or there is a bug in the Rakuten cloud with the device ID for unregistered devices. Other people on Reddit seem to have similar problems. I then went through the actual setup with a Rakuten account and then signed out again and deleted the fake account. This worked for two hours and afterwards these strange (empty) book series reappeared.
An automatic firmware update did not update the latest firmware for some reason and was only installed through calibre.
The next problem is that the thing crashed repeatedly and just freezed on the three dots screen. And after a while it automatically did a factory reset, which is probably a fail safe which wipes all settings and books. It's unbelievable. Why does this happen?
It has problems with a simple USB connection half the time and USB 3.0 ports seem to work only on each fourth try or so. Also just unplugging the device without safely ejecting it (which nobody does ever) apparently corrupts the database.
The final nail in the coffin was that I spend 2 hours with Calibre and the KoboTouchExtended plugin to get covers to sync, but it's just not working no matter what I sync and do. They look fine in the calibre library and after a sync even in the devices tab, but not on the device itself. I cannot really grasp that this is so complicated to update a book cover in the current year. I am really baffled at the alpha state of the software and I guess I have to live with the shitty new UI after a forced update of my old Kindle Paperwhite after all.
It's such a shame, I'm not even going to bother trying out KoReader and will just return the device.
The hardware seems to be fine, but the screen of my unit has some bright spots on the lower corners.
I don't want a device made out of recycled garbage when I'm paying over $100 for it.
If they actually cared about sustainability they would make a modular device, as the vast majority of environmental impact comes from the battery, display, and other electronic components. Of course if they did that, it would eat into their bottom line. People wouldn't throw away e-readers that were almost perfect aside from a single dead component that just needed to be replaced or upgraded.
I'm really tired of this corporate greenwashing and environmental virtue signalling. It doesn't help any environment, insults the customer, and makes an inferior product.
You're not supposed to think about these things. Just fall in line, believe what you're told and virtue signal like the rest of 90% brainwashed automatons.
This is ridiculous. It would be way (way!) more eco friendly if they designed repairable devices or offer any kind of repairable devices. Recycled paper wrapping doesn't help if I have to throw away the device as soon as the battery dies
E-readers lasts for years tho. One battery can last for 10 years or so.
@@bipolarCapybara lucky you if they last you this long. But replace battery with screen, still same point
@@rockingsteady9273 Yes, that's true! I just think that ebooks are among the electronics where reparabuilty is much less of an issue with respecto to, say, a phone! Although I do agree that it'd be better if we could easily repair them. The first Kindle had a replace battery!
@@bipolarCapybara that's true. I'm still angry I had to throw away a 1 week old kobo Aura h2o with a broken screen that was not reparable. That surely has been many paper packages worth of resources
1 ghz processor and half a gig of Ram? Really? $200? Only 6"? Whoah..... Very little storage..... Better components are not that expensive. E_reader tech is so far behind the curve..... Itt will never catch on to a bigger audience until they deliver better value.