Should you buy the Kobo Libra Colour?

Yes—buy the Kobo Libra Colour if you want a 7-inch Kobo eReader with colour for book covers, comics, graphic novels, illustrations, and note-taking. It is especially appealing if you read visual material or like annotating.

Skip it if you mostly read plain text novels. Colour E Ink is less essential for black-and-white reading, and at least one review notes the colour display brings warmer screen tone and worse contrast compared with simpler monochrome reading. You’re paying partly for colour, not necessarily a better text-reading experience.

Bottom line: for comics, covers, illustrated books, and notes, it’s a strong buy; for pure text reading, a monochrome eReader may be the better-value choice.