Kobo Clara vs Kobo Touch
April 23, 2026
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6-inch e-reader - Kobo's answer to the Kindle Paperwhite. It provides optimal lighting for reading day and night thanks to ComfortLight PRO technology. You can adjust the brightness and color temperature to reduce blue light exposure before bed. Its 8GB memory holds up to 6,000 e-books. The battery lasts for several weeks. You can choose from over 50 font sizes and 12 font types, adjust margins, and more. It also features highlighting, note-taking and a built-in dictionary.
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This was the first Kobo's model with touchscreen, that gave the name Touch. It's a simple 6-inch lightweight reader with 800 x 600 resolution, 16-level grey scale, 2Gb storage, SD card and travel friendly design. It still uses the newest Kobo firmware (if you want it), allows buing books via Wi-Fi, downloading epub files and copy paste into memory. It's battery life is about 1 month and you can replace the battery (purchase it cheaply on AlieExpress). The main drawback - it does not have frontlight. The model is discontinued of course.
Kobo Clara vs Kobo Touch in our news:
2011. Kobo unveils Wi-Fi Touch Edition e-reader for $129.99
Kobo introduced a new e-ink reader model, the Kobo WiFi Touch Edition, priced at $129.99. As its name suggests, the new e-reader features a touchscreen and employs the same Neonode infrared technology used in Sony's 6-inch touchscreen e-readers. It also incorporates E-Ink's latest Pearl e-ink display combined with Neonode's "responsive" zForce infrared touch technology (referred to by Kobo as "Real Touch"). The device includes 1 GB of internal storage, a microSD card slot (supporting up to a 32GB card) and offers a battery life of up to two weeks. The Kobo Touch supports ePub, PDF and Adobe DRM formats and is available in black (with a black back) and white (with lilac, blue, or white back). It also supports multiple languages, including English, French, Spanish, German, Italian and Dutch.
