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Kobo Libra Colour

  • 7" colour E Ink Kaleido™ 3 touchscreen
  • Ergonomic, waterproof design
  • Kobo Stylus 2 compatibility

Colour your thinking

Read and mark up¹ your beloved stories, now in colour.

Introducing our most inspiring eReader yet: the new Kobo Libra Colour. Bring magic to your margins by annotating your pages, organizing your thoughts, and highlighting inspiring lines, all in colour. With Kobo Stylus 2 compatibility, you can dive deeper into your favourite stories by marking up meaningful moments and highlighting powerful passages in the eBooks you love.

Browse and read eBooks in full colour

Bring colour to your fictional and factual worlds. Experience your reading life in colour with the 7" E Ink Kaleido™ 3 display's soothing colour palette. Book covers, illustrations, note-taking and more come to life. No glare in sunlight, no notifications—just you and your book in full-colour bliss.

Dive into your stories with colourful mark-ups

With Kobo Stylus 2¹ compatibility, you can mark up and highlight your eBooks in colour. Add depth to your own reading world by underlining inspiring lines and bringing some personality to your pages.

Your journal, daily planner, book club prep and more

Whether you're capturing a book club note, a journal entry, or an inspired thought—it’s never been easier or more fun with Kobo's integrated notebooks and Kobo Stylus 2¹. Effortlessly share your thoughts in colour (or just never lose them) with notebooks backed up on the Kobo Cloud, and connection to Dropbox or Google Drive.

A woman reclining on a couch, lit by the soft light of a Kobo Libra Colour eReader she is holding, along with a Kobo Stylus 2. A woman reclining on a couch, lit by the soft light of a Kobo Libra Colour eReader she is holding, along with a Kobo Stylus 2.

Read comfortably, always

With an ergonomically curved form meant to fit perfectly in your hand, Kobo Libra Colour is a delight to read on with page-turn buttons, left/right screen rotation, full font size and margin customization, and landscape mode. For restful reading at night, ComfortLight PRO automatically reduces blue light throughout the day. Or, read with Dark Mode—your eyes will thank you.

A Kobo Libra Colour eReader sitting on two hardcover books, set on a wooden table by flowers in a green vase.

Better by design

Thoughtfully made with recycled and ocean-bound plastic, as well as being fully waterproof², the Kobo Libra Colour is built to last. This eReader is also repairable, so you can extend its life and replace key components.

Learn more about Kobo's sustainability practices at kobo.com/eco and more about repairability at kobo.com/repairability.

Endless ways to read, with Kobo's signature eReading experience

Carry up to 24,000 eBooks or 150 Kobo Audiobooks with 32GB of storage³ and enjoy weeks of battery life⁴.

Listen to Kobo Audiobooks with built-in Bluetooth® wireless technology⁵.

Dive into the Kobo Store's extensive collection of eBooks and audiobooks.

Add your own eBooks and documents to your eReader with built-in Google Drive and Dropbox integration.

Use Pocket to save online articles for offline reading at your leisure.

Adjust font size, margins, and change font style for a customized reading experience.

¹Kobo Stylus 2 sold separately.
²Meets requirements of IPX8 rating. Waterproof for up to 60 minutes in up to 2 metres of water.
³1GB = 1 billion bytes. Assumes an approximate size of about 1.3MB per eBook, and average audiobook length of 6.5 hours with 28.8MB per hour. Some storage space utilized by software.
⁴A single charge on the eReader lasts up to 40 days, based on 30 minutes of reading per day with the front light at 30% brightness and WiFi and Bluetooth® wireless technology off.
⁵Kobo Audiobooks available only in select countries. Bluetooth® wireless headphones or speaker required.

Technical Specs

Display

7" E Ink Kaleido™ 3 display with FastGLR and Dark Mode
1264x1680
300 PPI—black-and-white content
150 PPI—colour content

Storage

32GB

CPU

Dual 2.0 GHz

Connectivity

WiFi 802.11 ac/b/g/n (i.e. dual band, 2.4 and 5 GHz), Bluetooth® wireless technology, and USB-C

Battery

2050 mAh, weeks of battery*
*A single charge on the eReader lasts up to 40 days, based on 30 minutes of reading per day with the front light at 30% brightness and WiFi and Bluetooth® wireless technology off.

Waterproof

IPX8 - up to 60 mins in 2 metres of water

Front Light

ComfortLight PRO – Adjustable brightness and colour temperature for blue light reduction

Customizability

iType: 13 different fonts and over 50 font styles

Dimensions

144.6 x 161 x 8.3 mm

Weight

199.5 g
Actual size and weight may vary by configuration and manufacturing process.

Supported Formats

15 file formats supported natively (EPUB, EPUB3, FlePub, PDF, MOBI, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIFF, TXT, HTML, RTF, CBZ, CBR)
Kobo Audiobooks**
**Audiobooks available only in select countries. Bluetooth® wireless headphones or speaker required.

Languages

English, French, French (Canada), German, Spanish, Spanish (Mexico), Italian, Catalan, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Turkish, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Polish, Romanian, and Czech.