Mine also takes a second or two to open the device from sleep. Oasis has hands down better built quality, very fine brushed metal unibody.Has clearer screen and better front light (almost no discoloration).The buttons feel very high quality.But its kindle, so the firmware is dumbed down and geared to sell you stuff. You can also easily sideload koreader for added PDF functionality. It also has a quite bad front light with noticable discoloration (at least my device). Nice built quality, but plastic and nice buttons but nothing exciting. We’ll save that topic for a separate review.The kobo has better native app (especially with kepubs) and I like more that you can make the front-light more amber. There are some software differences between the two but nothing major. It basically comes down to what design you prefer and what store you’d rather buy ebooks from. It’s gotten to the point where both do so many of the same things well that one isn’t clearly better than the other. I think the Kindle Paperwhite 5 and Kobo Libra 2 are both really good at what they do. The Kindle Paperwhite got some new hardware to improve performance the Kobo Libra 2 did not, so naturally the Paperwhite has a clear advantage in the performance category.įor the most part there’s not a big speed difference with navigating the interface and turning pages, but when it comes to more demanding tasks like zooming and scrolling on PDFs and comics the Kindle is noticeably smoother. It can be tamed with a bit of warm light added, but it never looks quite as paper-like. On it’s own I like the frontlight on the Libra 2, but when compared to the Paperwhite 5 (and the larger Kobo Sage), the Libra has more of a greenish blue tone. The Paperwhite’s frontlight has more of a neutral tone that tends to give it a more natural paper-like look. The color of the warm light looks fairly similar on both devices, but the cool colors are quite different. Frontlightsīoth devices have nice evenly-lit frontlights and both have dual-colored frontlights with the option to use a cool color or a warm color or a combination of the two. It’s also more reflective than Kobo’s indented screen, and it’s more fingerprint prone. Under bright lighting enough light can pass through the front layer to make the difference negligible, but in lower light the front layer adds a subtle fuzziness to the text. Text stands out more, like it’s on top of the screen, whereas the Paperwhite seems like the text is behind the screen.īasically what I think it comes down to is the added flush front layer on the Kindle Paperwhite limits how much light can pass through. With bright ambient lighting it’s hard to see a difference in the darkness of the text when comparing both devices, but in lower lighting conditions the Kobo Libra’s screen clearly looks better. With the frontlights turned off on both devices, the Kindle’s screen has a noticeably lighter background, whereas the Kobo has more of a darker gray tone. In some lighting conditions the Kindle’s screen looks better and in other lighting conditions the Kobo Libra’s screen looks better. People keep asking which one has a better screen and better contrast, but I have a hard time answering that question because it seems to change. The Kindle Paperwhite has a 6.8-inch E Ink screen with a flush front layer and the Kobo Libra 2 has a 7-inch screen with an indented front. I’m just going to cover the main points in this comparison because it takes too much time to cover every minor difference, so make sure to check the full reviews for more information about each device. The Kobo Libra 2 has a rotation sensor and page buttons the Paperwhite has a flush front screen and it adds support for dual band WiFi, and the Signature Edition has wireless charging and auto-brightness. Each device has a few unique features the other doesn’t.
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