Today, when I went to the
Chapters website to order a couple of books, I noticed an advertisement for the new
Kobo eReader, which will be coming in May. Now, I still haven't gotten around to buying an e-book reader of any sort. I've been musing over the Kindle and the Sony, but I wasn't really that enthused about either of them. Part of the reason was the price. But the Kobo is only going to be $149 Canadian! The
comparison chart is pretty impressive, too. For a lot less money, the Kobo has many of the features of the Kindle or the Sony (although it doesn't look like it has a word look-up feature... darn!). It's also the thinnest and the lightest reader. It holds a few fewer books than the Kindle... but it has memory expansion (which the Kindle doesn't), so you can actually cram up to 4000 books on there with a memory card. I wonder how long it would take to actually read 4000 books...
At the moment, there aren't a heck of a lot of e-books available in the
YA category. It will be interesting to see if that resolves itself once the Kobo is actually released. I mean, they do have books such as Becca Fitzpatrick's
Hush, Hush and Kelley Armstrong's The Darkest Powers series. I don't see many
really recent releases, though.
It's something to watch, anyway. This looks like it could give us Canadians a more reasonably priced option for e-book readers.
At the moment, there aren't a heck of a lot of e-books available in the YA category. It will be interesting to see if that resolves itself once the Kobo is actually released. I mean, they do have books such as Becca Fitzpatrick's Hush, Hush and Kelley Armstrong's The Darkest Powers series. I don't see many really recent releases, though.
YAH! That's awesome. Way cool news.
ReplyDeleteI'm still wanting an iPad to read books on. Mostly because I already have my Kindle for iPhone/iPod Touch app. Glad to see more in the market, however. Hopefully it will bring the prices on all of them down!
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