Many companies, like Amazon and Apple, have taken advantage of Black Friday to offer their best deals and boost sales. But even so, many large companies still rely on the Christmas shopping season and thus save their best offers for this more commercial than religious event.
One of those companies that continue to bet on offering the best deals during the Christmas campaign is Kobo. The Rakuten ebook subsidiary has developed an offer on its devices together with its partners such as Fnac to make the purchase of certain eReaders more attractive.
This offer , for the moment, is limited to a single model, although that model will now become quite attractive to many ebook lovers. The Kobo Aura Edition 2 is a device that has dropped in price, now costing €99,90.
The Kobo Aura offers the features of a mid-range eReader for the price of a low-range
The Kobo Aura Edition 2, or Kobo Aura as it's been renamed, is an eReader with a 6-inch touchscreen . This screen is backlit and uses E-Ink Carta HD technology. The device has a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels and 212 ppi . This resolution is lower than the Kindle Paperwhite but significantly higher than the traditional Kindle.
The Kobo Aura features the latest Kobo device updates and Comfortlight technology , meaning you won't have any lighting problems and can even read at night without blue light from your device . This is all thanks to the latest updates that significantly improve the performance of Comfortlight technology.
The eReader's internal storage is 4GB , sufficient for many users who use Calibre to manage their eReaders, although small for those who don't use Calibre and read a lot. Unfortunately, this device doesn't have a microSD card slot, so we can't expand the eReader's internal storage. It supports a wide range of ebook formats, around 14, including the new Epub format and the Mobi format , a common format for ebooks on the Amazon store.
The Kobo Aura Edition 2 has measurements that facilitate one-handed use
The device measures 159 x 113 x 8.5 mm and weighs 180 g . Its small size and light weight make it easy to handle with one hand, which is useful for many readers who read at night. The eReader's battery life is quite long and can last for months if you don't overuse the device's backlight or Wi-Fi connection.
We can currently access this offer through Fnac, Kobo's Spanish partner that will be offering this offer from the 11th to the 24th of
December and from 30th of this month to 6th January 2018, through its physical stores and through Fnac.es. This offer may last longer if it is well received, but at the moment the continuation of this offer has not been confirmed beyond these dates.
If we compare the Kobo Aura with other devices such as Amazon eReaders or OnyxBoox devices, it is true that the Kobo Aura becomes very attractive for having a price of less than 100 euros and offering the features of a mid-range eReader.