Kobo Glo eBook

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A Rakuten Kobo coleta e processa seus dados através do uso de cookies, a fim de operar o site e garantir seu funcionamento adequado. This is exactly why we still said the Paperwhite’s a solid choice in our Voyage review: it’s not a Kobo-specific slight. You can also read the "Notes" or check which Mark your device is (at the top of the page) if you are not sure. There's no visible branding, except for an easy-to-miss Kobo logo at the bottom of the front bezel that blends in with the rest of the smooth black finish.

With no nav buttons on the Kobo Glo whatsoever, all page turning and navigation is done using the touchscreen. Within a separate Extras menu within Settings, the Glo offers Chess, a rudimentary sketch pad, Sudoku and a web browser.

While there's a touch of cloudiness at the bottom of the screen where the LEDs are, it's no worse than what you'll see with the Paperwhite and the uniformity is quite good -- the light splays out pretty smoothly across the screen. Latest Wave of Ipsos Study Reveals Mobile Device Brands Canadian Consumers are Considering in 2012". There’s a backlight too, and if you’re coming from using an age-old ereader or, the unthinkable, paper books, this is the bit I think might just change your life.

While holding the Home button, slide the power button to the right several times to turn on your eReader. One of the best bits of Kobo’s higher-end ereaders like the Kobo Glo is the interface, which is thoroughly tasteful, intuitive and lovely to look at. Any ereader worth its salt puts the book you’re currently reading front and centre, so that 90 per cent of the time you don’t need to look anywhere apart from the home screen and the book you’re reading. As for battery life, Kobo says you can get up to 55 hours of continuous use with the light on and a month of battery life with Wi-Fi and the light turned off.I reset my kobo arc 7 and now it refuses my wifi saying there is a problem with the network which there isn’t because we have other tablets and phones using it. It also displays large cover images when it's asleep —the eyes of Haruki Murakami's protagonist in 1Q84 stared outward whenever my test unit was napping. Six applications are included with the Kobo Glo: a web browser, sudoku, chess, Unblock it, Word Scramble, and a sketch pad. Taking the ‘more is more’ approach to just the right degree, the Kobo Glo HD also supplies loads of stats about how much, and how fast, you read.