If you place your fingers long enough while navigating, a small navigator will appear to show you which part of the page you're looking at. You can use the touchscreen to zoom and navigate the PDFs but the performance is not as responsive to tablets or computers. But I still recommend a larger display because the only way to get larger text on PDFs is to use a larger display. Kobo Sage is one inch larger than Kobo Libra 2 so the experience of reading PDFs is slightly better. The 4:3 aspect ratio works surprising well for reading letter or A4-sized PDFs. The black is not exactly black but dark enough. Black levels or contrast seems good enough. Text is sharp with no noticeable pixelation. The resolution of the 8-inch E Ink Carta 1200 touchscreen display is 1440 x 1920, 300DPI.
The edge near the buttons is curved upwards slightly. The matte texture on the Kobo Libra 2 is just better and resisting fingerprints.
Unfortunately the back's also quite susceptible to fingerprint smudges. There's also this nice etched textured pattern on the back. Power button's located on the back near the corner. The surface is semi-glossy and can attract fingerprint smudges more easily compared to the matte textured surface of the Kobo Libra 2. The seam on the Kobo Libra 2 is on the back. That's the seam from the front and the body on the side. However, there's still a small gap between the surface and the E Ink canvas and depending on the light source, you may see cast shadows from the edge of the display. The display surface is flushed to the body which creates this illusion that the page is on the surface of the eReader. The page buttons near the edge are easy to reach and have good feedback. You can hold the eReader any way you want and the pages will quickly orientate automatically. However if you include the SleepCover or the PowerCover, the additional weight is quite noticeable. The weight is 240g which is comfortable for holding for long periods of time. The eReader is almost squarish in shape with a thick bezel for your thumb to grip on. This is more expensive at US$ 399 (SSGD 629) but pen and cover are included.
It's better to have a bigger display where you don't have to zoom. You can zoom PDFs with the other Kobo eReaders but the experience is not smooth. If you want to read PDFs, the 10.3-inch Kobo Elipsa Pack is good since you can't control text size in PDFs, so having a larger display is highly recommended. Price difference is significant and even more so when you buy the pen and case. If you want to listen to audio books, I recommend Kobo Libra 2 over Kobo Sage unless you really want the larger display, pen support and battery charging case AKA PowerCover. If you just want to read, the budget Kobo Clara HD ( review) is worth the money simply because of its affordable US $119 (SGD 199) pricing. Here's the main selling points for each eReader model: Some parts of this review are duplicated from the Kobo Libra 2 review due to the similarity between these two devices.īelow's the comparison table with other recent Kobo eReaders. Kobo Sage is an 8-inch E Ink eReader from released in October 2021 together with the 7-inch Kobo Libra 2 ( review).
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