I've been a Kindle girl for years. But then I spent three months sneaking around with a Kobo Libra Color and honestly? I'm not going back.

This is my full, honest breakdown of what it's actually like to switch from Kindle to Kobo: the ecosystem shock, the color screen glow-up, the annotation situation, and whether the Kindle Paperwhite can even compete anymore. I also tried the Kindle Colorsoft before this and returned it. So this isn't a hot take. It's three months of real use.

Accessories:

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Kobo accessories: https://liketk.it/668j0

⏱️ CHAPTERS

00:00 Kindle to Kobo Setup

00:48 Why Try Kobo Color

02:11 Size and Feel Compared

03:22 Ergonomics and Buttons

06:36 Cases and Protection

09:36 Remotes and Stylus

14:49 Color and Annotation Wins

19:38 Books and Ecosystems

23:28 Battery and Interface Speed

26:16 Should You Switch

29:33 Final Verdict and Wrap

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Okay.

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I still love my paper white.

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She's right here.

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She's not going anywhere, but,

but I've been sneaking around

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with a colibra color and I'm not

gonna lie, I kind of love it more.

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And I say that as someone

who already tried the Kindle

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Color Soft, I returned it.

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So this is not going to be a hot take.

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This is my experience after three months

of actual use of my colibra color.

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We're gonna be talking about

transitioning, maybe some things that

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I notice that I haven't seen anyone

talk about, and whether maybe you can

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do the switch or not, depending on who.

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I think it's good for.

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Plus, I'll tell you where I land

after using this for three months and

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where it's gonna stand in my system.

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So grab some coffee and let's settle in

because we're gonna talk all about these

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two devices today, and the reality of

making a switch from a Kindle to a Cobo.

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Now, here's the deal.

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I've been a Kindle person

for a really long time.

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I read a lot of books on Kindle Unlimited.

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If you don't know how Kindle

Limited works, it's basically

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a program from Amazon.

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And once an author puts their books

inside of that program, they cannot

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be purchased anywhere else which

also means that you can't purchase

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those books for the Cobalt device.

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Amazon has that on lockdown, and the

reality is that as long as I'm reading

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Kindle Limited books, even if I'm

not reading them through the Kindle

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Limited program, I have to have an

Amazon account to purchase those books.

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Now, that may mean that I have a

Kindle, or I just use my Kindle app

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on my phone or my iPad, that is just

the fact that I have to deal with, and

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you probably have to deal with if you

read Kindle Limited Authors as well.

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But I love my E Ink devices and I

really wanted a Color E Ink device.

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Then Amazon came out with

the Kindle Color Soft.

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I bought it.

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I tried it, I returned it, and then

I really heard everybody loving the

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Kindle Libra color, and everyone was

raving about the Cobo system itself.

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So when I wanted to try Cobo, obviously

the choice was to try the one with color.

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Plus I was intrigued by the whole

stylist and annotating as well.

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So that is something that I hadn't

tried before with e-readers.

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So I thought that is the perfect one.

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I bought it for Christmas for myself

and I've now been using it for

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three months and here's gonna be my,

basically where we are with this.

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So let's start with physically

the Colibra color is a little

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bit lighter to me physically.

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Like I'm not giving you like stats.

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Obviously you can look those up and

those probably change here and there,

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but to me this feels a little bit lighter

than the Kindle Paper White itself.

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And this is a 2024 Kindle paper,

white signature edition, I

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think, if I remember correctly.

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So just for reference.

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So size and weight is not dramatic.

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But then there's also screen size.

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And when it comes to that, I feel

like they're pretty even as well.

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Obviously you can see that one

has a little bit more of a.

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Square shaped to the device.

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But if you look closely, like screen

size is pretty, pretty dead set even.

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I didn't feel any difference after I've

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So I've gone through

six different Kindles.

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Most of them have been paperwise.

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I did use a voyage, which I

loved more than the paper white,

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but they discontinue that.

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So I've been in this ecosystem

for a really long time.

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And this felt like same size, even though

I kind of like the fact that it feels

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like a more compact device in some ways.

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But that's besides the point

size wise of what you're looking

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at, there was no transition.

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Now, the biggest thing physically for me

is two things that I will mention, and

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the funny thing is that the two things

that I'm gonna talk about are things

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that the Kindle, the old Kindles used

to have, and they took those features

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away to give us whatever we have here.

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But let's just go through those.

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The first thing we're gonna talk about

is the fact that the Cobo Libra color

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just feels really nice on your hand,

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and that is in part because it does

have this little bit of a shape here.

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If you can see it's very, very slight

curvature here, which actually makes

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it so comfortable when your hand is

gripping it, like there's a little

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nice little ledge there for your

thumb to like sit on and it makes

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holding this so much more comfortable.

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Like, I really need something on

the back of the Kindle paper wide

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in order to hold it and grab it.

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'cause it feels like

it's just sliding around.

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There's nothing really that holds it

to me, but this feels like I could just

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hold it and it's gripping right there.

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I don't know what to tell you,

but it does feel like that and

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it's really, really comfortable.

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But what I absolutely love is the buttons.

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The buttons.

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So the buttons used to be a feature on old

Kindles, and I loved having the buttons.

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You actually swipe.

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You know, forward and backwards

with the buttons, and you all

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Kindles used to have this.

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They took that away just for, you

know, the regular swipe, and I cannot

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tell you how much I love my buttons,

and they sit just so perfectly.

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Again, you have this little grip here for

comfort, and the buttons are right there.

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So you can literally just, you know,

move forward and backwards without

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having to swipe or do anything.

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And it's so nice, like obviously

when I'm using my Kindle paper

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White, I can hold it and it kind of.

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Tap this screen like this, but I feel

like I'm actually doing more work.

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I know it's a minor thing but it's so

much more comfortable to just have my hand

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sitting here and just push the button.

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So, so much better.

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Huge difference in terms of the

comfort of using the device.

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Now the other thing that I will

mention is the power button, and

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this is again, a design feature.

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This used to be how the old Kindles were.

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The power button on the Kindle

paper White is this external button.

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Right here.

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And I don't know if it's just me, but

I push this accidentally all the time.

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So I may be reading and like if I'm

grabbing or holding or repositioning,

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I push this all the time.

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Like, why is this here?

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So that is something I don't

like about the power button.

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On the Kindle paper White and

on the colibra color, the power

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button is right here on the back.

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It's actually like indented in, so you

don't hit this accidentally very often,

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so you're not gonna shut off your device

accidentally in the middle of reading.

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Again, I do that all the time

with the Kindle Paper White.

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I don't know if that's just me,

but definitely a big plus to

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have this button in the back.

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It doesn't interfere

with my reading at all.

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And the old Kindles used to have that.

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I don't know why that changed or

why we went to that design, but

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you know, that's besides the point.

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So again, some of these features

that I love about this device

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is going back to the OG ways.

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That the Kindle paper, it used to be.

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Now another thing I will say is from

the physicality of the device itself,

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and you can't really tell because I

have this covered and I do have a video

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with how I decorated all of this, but

the actual back of this device has a

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texture, so you don't necessarily have

to have a cover if you don't want to.

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I did try it out for a little bit

without putting this cover on it,

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and you are able to like grip.

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Nicely.

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So if you wanted to have it without

a cover and have it on kind of

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unprotected, you can still do that.

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Now, the one thing I will say with

that is because it is texture,

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it will probably eventually get

a little dirty or dusty in there.

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So you would have to work

more to keep it clean.

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Something to consider.

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Now speaking of the back of the

device, let's talk about cases.

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I used to have the flip covers

on all of my Kindle paper whites,

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and I decided not to do that with

the colibra color, so I now have a

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clear case on both of these devices.

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So apples to apples, like the

quality is the same for the Kindle.

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I did buy this, it's like a third

party product, so it's not an

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Amazon product, so I can't compare.

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This is the one that you get from.

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Cobo directly and the quality's

great is a nice, thick material.

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Same like the other one.

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It has like a nice little bit of a grip,

so it does help you to hold it as well.

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Like this is all you need if you ask me.

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So in that sense, not a big difference.

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I cannot give you a opinion on

the covers that have like the flip

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cover that you can get from Cobo.

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I have had those four Kindles and.

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Over time.

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I do think that they can last, but also I

have had those fall apart more than some

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third party covers that I have gotten.

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I feel like those a lot of

times are better quality, like

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a little bit thicker whatever.

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I think because of the edge that

it gets really thin at the edge

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for the ones that they provide.

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Provide.

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I mean, you have to buy them, but I do

think that I prefer the aftermarket,

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like the third party ones that I've

gotten from my Kindle in the past.

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But I am not very big on like

traveling with my devices, meaning

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like they're not constantly getting

thrown in a purse with a bunch of

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stuff and like getting scratched up.

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Like there's not a huge.

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A risk of that happening.

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So for the most part, nothing

happens to my devices.

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They do get thrown around the house.

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They probably have some stuff

thrown on top of, and nothing has

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happened to my covers either one.

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I've had this one now for two years.

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Nothing's happened and this one for

three months, nothing's happened.

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So if you are a little bit

concerned of protecting your

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screen, these are not as sensitive

like an iPad screen, for example.

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So I would say that.

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You should probably give it

a try and see how you use it.

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Now if you're somebody that's gonna

throw this in the purse and you have a

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bunch of stuff, sometimes metal stuff

like keys and stuff flying around your

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purse all the time, and so it will

get a little bit more wear and tear,

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maybe that's something to consider

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now I do wanna touch a little bit on

accessories and for the kinder paper

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White, the only accessory that I have

beside like decorating and things

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like that, which obviously I do have

something to help to hold it, which

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again, I need that for the paper.

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White.

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I don't need that.

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For the cobol, like because that little

grip there is really all you need for

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this one, I actually need something

to help me, so that's one thing.

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But in terms of actual accessories,

the only one that I will mention

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for the paper white is the remote,

and I haven't actually used it.

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After I changed the cover, I

changed this, uh, clear cover.

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Um, I wouldn't say probably two

months ago, I think in February.

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So what I usually have is in the

back here, I have the magnetic

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ring, and this will attach to my.

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Magnetic stand, kind of like the

phone stands and that will hold

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it up for me to read at night.

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Now what I have been using a little

bit is I just kind of lean that and you

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know, just have it standing on something.

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I kind of do the same with this one

'cause I didn't want to put the magnetic

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ring on any of these covers for now.

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But that's what you use the remote for

is if you want some hands free reading.

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And here's the one that I have for the.

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Kindle Paper White.

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There are multiples.

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These are not from Amazon directly,

so these are third party products,

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and the way this works is a two

part system for the paper White.

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You have a piece that connects

on the actual screen, and

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then you have the remote.

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Now the fact that you have to

connect something to the screen.

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Basically, the way it works is it

has to go on the screen and it has

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to touch the front of the screen,

so depending on where it connects.

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For me, it's a little bit finicky.

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So a lot of times, like I don't

have as much problems as I've

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seen some people where it ends

up covering some of the words.

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So for the most part, that is fine, but

a lot of times it's about the connection.

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Like I really have to mess around

with the button to get it to connect

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and to recognize and then to work.

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So it's a process to

get it to actually work.

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So that is one thing I don't.

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Love.

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I actually think that the remote for

the iPad mini works much smoother

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than for the kind paper white.

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And then there's the shape of the remote.

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So this is again, the one for the paper

white, which I'm gonna leave this stuff

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linked, you do have to charge it.

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And this basically is small.

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It's kind of nice, like it has a nice

shape to it, but you know, you keep it and

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just push the button forward backwards.

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Pretty simple, but it does have a

little bit of issue with connecting.

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Like once you get it connected

is fine, but just to get it

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working a little bit of an issue.

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But I also tried the remote for the Cobo.

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It's very different because

it's a one piece thing.

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You don't have to put

anything on the screen.

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I really love that.

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I like not having to deal with, you

know, putting something on the screen.

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Is it gonna cover the text, whatever.

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It has a battery on the back.

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It connects via Bluetooth and you have

the same, you know, two button thing.

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The shape is a little bit different

and it is also a little bit bigger.

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So here's the two.

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This one is the Cobo and this one

is the Kindle, and it's a little

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bit bigger, but actually it's more

comfortable to hold in my hand.

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Now.

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That is something that I have noticed,

like following all the things.

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Everything is more comfortable,

like ergonomic, I guess,

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with the Cobo products.

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This is from Cobo directly.

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I did buy the one that

they sell, and I just.

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Find it really, really

comfortable to hold.

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Again, it has like a little bit of this

shape here and this right here also helps.

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It's almost like your finger sitting

right on there and it just feels really

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comfortable to hold, even though it's

a little bit bigger than the other one.

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So as far as remotes go,

this connects no problem.

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It's just the one piece, Bluetooth,

it recognizes it once and I haven't

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had it where it disconnects it

like as soon as I wanna use it.

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It's there, it's available.

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Now the other accessory that I got for the

colibra color is the stylus, and I ended

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up getting one that is different brand.

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So I did not get this one from Cobo.

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I got it on Amazon.

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It is the me pen and I'm going to

link that if you wanna check it out.

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You do have to charge it, and I've

had to charge it a couple of times.

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I did, you know, after like going through

and annotating one book a lot, like

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you will have to eventually charge,

but it holds quite a bit battery.

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So I would say no problems with

that in terms of syncing it and

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how it works with the ecosystem.

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Like this was so smooth to get it working.

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I a hundred percent recommend it.

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So if you wanna save a couple of dollars

then definitely I do recommend this one.

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If there is one thing that I'm like,

Hmm, do I love it or not, is the fact

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that it's black where my device is

white, but at the same time, if the

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remote is black too, so my accessories

are black with it, also, it is magnetic,

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so it can just be sitting if you want.

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And it's super light and comfortable.

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Like if you're holding it while

you're reading, it is not a big deal.

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But you obviously can put it down, and you

have your little buttons right here if you

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need to delete or whatever you need to do.

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Okay, so now let's talk about

color, because I wanna be honest

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with you, it is still ein, right?

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So it's not like the colors that you're

gonna get on an iPad, the colors are

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lighter no matter what device you get.

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But here's the thing, I think

that the colibra color does it

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better than the Kindle color Soft.

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I did return it.

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I didn't love it, especially

for the color display.

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And in comparison, I do think

that you get a better color

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experience on the Coba Libra color.

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So while it's still kind of soft, you do

get the enjoyment of seeing your covers

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in color, which I really, really love.

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I think especially for us romance

readers, that is something we love.

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We love to see all the colors and

having that on an E-reader is amazing.

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But I also wanna be clear that that is

not the main reason why I love the device.

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Obviously the comfort is one thing, but

what I actually think is the game changer

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piece is the annotating, and not only

annotating, but annotating in color.

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So the Colibra color gives you both color

and the stylus annotation in one device.

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Now, Kindle now has a device that

lets you annotate and has color, but

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when we're talking about comparable in

price, you would have to go with their

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black and white version of annotation

for like apples to apples if you want

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annotation and color from Kindle,

which is the Kindle scribe, color

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Soft, that is as pricey as an iPad.

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At least as of recording this video.

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So I don't think that that's worth it.

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I think for the price you're getting

all of the features that you need

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with the colibra color, it's more

comfortable, like it has all the things.

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I definitely think that that is

the feature that is a game changer.

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Now, I have never been a huge

annotator of books, especially

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when it comes to physical books.

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I always thought that writing

in my books, it just gives

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me like low key panic attack.

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But what I do do with physical books is I.

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Color code with page flags, and I'll put

the page flag and kind of like line it up

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with a paragraph that I wanna highlight.

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And you know, I have a color coding

system in the front with the page

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flags that I use and that is all great.

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But I can't make notes because

mentally, like I just, I

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can't do that with my books.

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And now what I've done before

with my Kindle, like if you're

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using the Kindle app, you can

highlight in different colors.

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But if you're using the Kindle paper

White, which is black and white, you

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see all your highlights in the same

color, which is not the same at all.

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So I definitely really was

missing that aspect of annotating.

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Plus adding in the fact that you can

write notes like that was the game changer

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for me because that is something that I

wasn't able to enjoy doing because I just

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can't do that with my physical books.

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So I was really excited to try that.

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I didn't know how I was

going to feel doing that.

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But on this Cobo, I have been

highlighting in different colors.

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I have been writing notes in the

margins, even like kind of like my

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emotions as I'm reading reactions.

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Like I don't have to overthink

what I'm writing because it's.

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Not permanent in any way.

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It doesn't make me nervous.

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I, it's not on paper, right?

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I can go in and delete

it, which sometimes I do.

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I can change it, I can revise

like it's there, but it's not

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there, if that makes sense.

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So I am so free with writing stuff down.

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You can also write in different

colors, which I really love.

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I have done a little bit of doodling, but

I haven't really gotten too big on that.

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But I can definitely see that I can

expand on what I do with the annotating

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with the colors on an e-reader device.

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I think definitely that's

gonna become my new thing.

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So if you are someone who annotates or

if you've wanted to annotate like myself,

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but you've been scared to do that because

you don't wanna do that to your physical

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books, I think this is the device.

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I am serious.

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I have enjoyed so much color coding.

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The highlights, the notes, and

you're definitely not gonna

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get that same experience if you

have a black and white device.

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You can also access your notes same

as you would, you know, accessing

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your highlights on a Kindle.

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And when you are looking at that, you

actually see both things you highlighted

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and the things that you wrote.

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So you'll be able to find all

of your little notes really

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quick from that one screen.

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I will say if you annotate a lot in one

book, 'cause I have that happen when

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you open the notes for that book, it may

take a little bit of time, but once it

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goes through the process and everything

is open, then it's no problem scrolling

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through and like going to the pages.

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It is just like loading the

backlog of all the notes that

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you have to like display them.

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That takes a little bit of time,

so I'm, you know, I'm not gonna

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lie, that is a little bit lagging.

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To me.

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That's not a deal breaker.

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And again, if you want that exact

feature on Kindle, meaning the annotating

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and the highlighting in color, it's

as expensive as an iPad right now.

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So, no, that's a no.

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So now about the content, because

I'm gonna be real with you here is

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where I think it really will depend

on what you're willing to negotiate

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with yourself, whether you make a

switch or not, or you are a hybrid.

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So the first thing is obviously Kindle

Limited Books and Kindle Limited authors.

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Amazon controls everything there.

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If you want to read those authors.

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You have to have a Kindle device,

and if not a Kindle device, then at

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the very minimum you have to read

on the Kindle app on your phone.

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So that is a fact and that is something

that I have decided to adjust to.

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The other thing is net gall.

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Now, for example, I do read

Advanced Reader copies.

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I will say there is an integration with

Cobo that works great for Net Alley.

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You just push a button and it just shows

up on your, on your cobalt right away.

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For some reason, and I don't know

if that's just me, but in the three

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months that I've used it, I've

had to reconnect that three times.

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I don't know if it's because I don't

send books as often, so like maybe if

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you don't use it a lot, it times out and

like disconnects or what is the thing,

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or maybe it has an expiration date.

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I don't know.

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But it's like a second to reconnect it.

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You literally click the button,

log into your Cobo account, poof.

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It's connected.

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Now with other kinds of arcs, for example,

or books that you may have, uh, with

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Amazon, if I wanted to add documents

to my Kindle and you know, still do,

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I would have to email that file to my

Kindle email address, and that will

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usually prompt a verification email to

come through, even if it's from a device.

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From an email address that I

have approved, so I will get

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the email, verify that you want

this document on your Kindle.

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I have to go into my email, click

yes, and then it goes to my Kindle.

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I've always thought that that's just a

cumbersome process, and that was something

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that they changed a few years back.

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It didn't use to be like

that, and I don't love that.

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So now the way that that works

with the Colibra color is the fact

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that you can integrate and connect

your Google Drive, your Dropbox.

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I think I use Google Drive.

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And what it does is, again, you do

the connection, you log into your Cobo

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account and you log into your Google

account, and it will create a folder

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in your Google Drive for your cobol,

anything you drop in that folder.

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You drag it in there

and it's on your device.

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I love that.

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I use that all the time and

I think that that is great.

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Super, super seamless.

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And another integration that I have

connected is my library, so you can

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connect your library through overdrive.

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It's really amazing if you use

Libby, I think for that reason

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alone is enough to get a Cobo.

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It's so, so easy to do with a Cobo.

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I tend to listen to more audiobooks

through my library than eBooks, but

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if that is something that you do more

with your eBooks in terms of library,

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then the COVID device is going to be a

breeze and a great part of your system.

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Now in terms of the Cobo store,

I don't have Cobo Plus, so I

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cannot give you any comparison

with that versus Kindle Limited.

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Obviously the books are going to be

different, but in terms of the actual

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store, 'cause obviously you can search

the Cobo store directly on the device.

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I have run into a few books that I

wanted to see if they were available.

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Obviously not Kindle unlimited

books and I did not find them.

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Not many, but I did run into a couple.

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So I do think that the catalog is

not necessarily identical, so you

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may want to just give it a search

to see what things are important

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to you and if they are available.

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And if an unlimited subscription is

important, they do have Cobo plus.

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I didn't look into that at all, but

if you want to browse around and see

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what they have available for that one

flat fee, you may be able to find some

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things that are worth your reading,

and that might be something that

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can replace your Kindle Unlimited.

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Again, it doesn't replace the authors

and the books that are on there.

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You may find enough things to read,

so it's a personal choice there.

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Another thing I wanted to

touch on is battery life.

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I think these are pretty evenly matched.

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Honestly.

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Both devices have great battery life.

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Genuinely.

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I think it's really good.

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I charged my Cobo when I first

opened it just after Christmas,

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I've only had to charge it one

other time since December and

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I just hit 5% again this week.

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So basically in like a little bit over

three months, I've charged it twice.

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And that first time was really

more me wanting to charge it 'cause

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I just opened it out of the box.

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And one more thing that I do wanna

mention and I love it, but I don't

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know if you may love it or not.

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It might just be a me thing, and I don't

know if it's a setting that can be changed

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or not but when your cobalt goes to sleep,

and again, I'm only speaking for the Cobo

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Libra color, I don't know if it's the

same for the other devices, but when it

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goes to sleep, instead of just showing

either a generic screensaver or if you

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don't have the ads, like whatever custom

thing you put on it, the colibra color

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will actually show you the cover of the

book that you're currently reading, and

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it will tell you what's your percentage.

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And I actually really love that because

it's almost like when the device

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is just sitting on my nightstand

or wherever it's sitting, it's an

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incentive to get me to pick up the book.

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Like I always see the cover and

I want to get back to my book.

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So I actually really love that feature.

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I don't know if that is

something that can be changed.

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I didn't go look for the setting

because I really love it, but

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that might be something that you

may like or you may not like.

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So I figure I would bring that up

because I think that if you do need

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kind of an incentive to get back to

reading, that to me is chef's case.

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Now for the actual operational

interface, I do have, again, like I

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said, the 2024 paper wide signature

edition, and even when I first got it,

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this has always felt a little laggy.

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And by laggy, I mean I will click

on a button and it takes a second

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for something to happen, or I

am scrolling through the books.

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It takes a second for the page to get

moving and to load or whenever I want to.

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Sync my books to make sure that I

download anything that I have purchased.

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It takes some time where I may have

to click that sync button a couple

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of times for it to actually work.

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So this to me, feels a little laggy

and not as smooth of an experience

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in terms of the user interface.

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And when it comes to the colibra

color, on the other hand,

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it does move quite smoothly.

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It may still have a little bit of

lag, but definitely it's at least 50%

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less than on the Kindle paper White.

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It is much faster, like when you're

scrolling through your page of books,

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you know, like up and down super, super

fast and you can move right through them.

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obviously neither one of them is gonna

be like iPad smooth, but the Cobo I

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think definitely has a real edge there

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and now here's the part where I have

to be honest, and it's about switching.

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Can you make a full switch

basically from to Kobo and.

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Obviously that is going to be very

personal to how you buy things and how

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you, relate to the books that you consume

and how you like your organization to be.

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I definitely think if you've been

buying books on Amazon for years,

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like I have, all of those books

are not coming with you to the Cobo

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unless you were able to download all

your books last year after Amazon

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announced that they were making some

changes, and basically you would not

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have access to the ebook files of

the books that you have purchased.

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If you were not able to download

all of that, I was not able

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to download all of that.

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Then basically, all of your old books are

stuck on Kindle, so if you don't have a

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Kindle device, you're still gonna need at

least at the bare minimum, the Kindle app

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in order to read them and access them.

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And that can be a problem.

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Like that might be

something you don't like.

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That I made the decision is something

that I don't mind having some things

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there and some things here, so that

was not a deal breaker for me, but

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it might be for you, especially if

you're a person that likes to have.

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A series together.

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So then you may consider, okay, for this

series, I have to keep getting them over

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here because I started versus having

them in two different places and then

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not knowing if you already have a book.

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I think that is the biggest drawback for

me, when you don't have things all in one

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device and in one ecosystem is how do I

remember which ones I've already bought?

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Because the one thing that the.

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Amazon system will do is because I've

already bought it through Amazon,

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it's not gonna let me buy it again.

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'cause it's gonna tell me like,

Hey, you already own this.

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So now if I'm over on Cobo

and I'm browsing, I may end

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up buying something again.

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So that is a real possibility, but that

is something that you have to figure

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out how important that is for you.

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Like where do the books live?

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Half here, half there.

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And then the fact that you may

end up buying something twice.

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Now another thing to consider is

if you share a family account on

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Amazon and you share books, or if

you have notes on Kindle, that sync

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automatically to your good reads.

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If that's really important to

you, that might be a problem.

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Or if you're like really deep in

Kindle Limited, like I use Kindle

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Limited, but I'm not like super,

super deep on Kindle Limited.

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But if that is you, then honestly

I would just say you need to stick

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with Kindle or at the bare minimum,

you would have to have two systems.

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One for Kindle Limited and

one for everything else.

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. If you are heavy on Libby or libraries, I

would say definitely look into the Cobo.

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Or if you're a person who loves to

annotate, maybe you annotate a lot on

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paper and you wanna get started on that

digitally, kind of how I've been doing it.

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You know, whether you're really

experienced at annotating or you're just

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dipping your toes like I was, I would

definitely say go for the co Libra color.

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I don't think you need to spend the

money of the Kindle Scribe color

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Soft ' cause that is outrageous pricing.

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But definitely the

feature is worth the try.

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I absolutely love it, and it's been a

game changer in my reading experience.

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So if you're like me, which basically

means Kindle Unlimited is part of

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my reading experience, but I also

really like the annotating and

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the color and all the things, then

welcome to the dual device Life.

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I definitely use now my

Cobo as my primary device.

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I reach for it first.

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If there is something that I can

by choice, read on it, that's

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gonna be my primary choice.

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I definitely enjoy reading on it more.

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My paper White is more for Kindle

Unlimited books or for example,

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if there are some publishers, like

there are some publishers that don't

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have the button to sync to Cobo.

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I dunno why.

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But for those, I do have to still

use my Amazon Kindle ecosystem.

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Basically, they have to live in

harmony, I definitely don't think

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that we absolutely have to pick a side

with that, and I think that there is

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room to do what works best for you.

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So I would love to know in the

comments, let me know if you are

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a Kindle loyalist, if you've tried

Cobo, are you a Cobo convert?

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Do you find it way more

comfortable to read on Cobo?

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Are you obsessed with

annotating like I have been?

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and let me know if you are living

the dual device life like me.

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I definitely want to know if

you have any other questions

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that I didn't cover here today.

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Drop them in the comments down below.

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Like I said, I only have this Cobo

device, so anything that's not

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related to this one specifically,

I wouldn't be able to answer.

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And also anything with Cobo Plus is

not a program that I have tried, so I

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wouldn't be able to guide you too much.

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But hopefully I can help you out a

little bit more if you're looking to

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making the switch or deciding if the

device is the right one for you.

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So leave those comments down below

and I'll see you in the next one.

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Bye.