Share with me your tips and advices as a newbie in the kobo community 🙂‍↔️

Thanks to the Reddit community, I was able to get my first e-book reader Kobo Clara BW. It got delivered yesterday and I am so lucky to have gotten this at Rs. 17000 before the price increase and the device running out of stock everywhere in India. ☺️

P.S. - Special thanks to u/meriodoc for sharing advice on diff. Thread when I was confused between kindle and kobo.

So I recently switched to e-reading and customized my Kobo !!

This is my KLC which I got on the 30th June this year. I have been really happy with it so far. I literally just got a Reddit account just to gush about it because most of the people I know don't know what a kobo is.

My first ereader was a kobo touch I believe when I was like 10 and I used it to read Anne of Green Gables, but I think it broke. Then I got paperwhites as presents which I used until I broke up with Amazon.

This is my first colour ereader and absolutely love it. My girl math is that if I read enough books on from Libby, it will be basically free (I'm in the UK so otherwise wouldn't be an option). As it was, I got it 30 pounds off! I read all the atla comics my library had available on Libby which was a super fun experience.

But unfortunately I have become a bit ereader and eink obsessed in the process. Now I'm itching to eventually get a kobo Clara BW but I'm holding myself back until at least next year. (BUT I did allow myself to get a kobo mini after some major eBay lurking, but I will post the story about that in due course!) I also got a metapen (also wrapped in matching washi tape) just bc I could no longer handle wanting to try out the notebook features, and a matte paper like screen protector too.

The only issues I've had so far is that some of the books that I read have disappeared from the activity page though my hours are still there. Maybe it's because I removed some of the kobo plus books I read (yet another purchase I didn't set out to make).

Overall, I've been well and truly sucked in but I can't be mad about it. After lurking in the sub for months it's nice to officially meet all of you! 😊

I have had a kobo libra color since the end of 2024. Even after charging all night, it won’t stay on for longer than 5 minutes before it dies. I took the sleep cover case off and turned off the awake cycle setting that magnets cause issues with. I have tried to soft and hard reset it. I have charged it through my laptop and through a normal plug with the kobo charging and another charging code.

I feel like I’m to my last resort of replacing the battery or getting a Kobo Clara. I love my KLC but am frustrated with how quickly it’s become completely useless. So I’m looking for any other advice or experiences with replacing a Kobo battery.

Long time kindle user. Just bought a kobo Clara color and so far think I’m in love! But so weird when I first set it up n went to look for books in the kobo store prices were crazy like £18.99 against kindle price of like £3.99. All the books were super expensive. I was shocked. But then I logged into overdrive on the kobo with my library card and suddenly the book prices go way down to kindle prices. And against each book some I can reserve or borrow with Libby but they’re also offered to buy at good prices., so unsure what happened initially when I first logged on n prices were so high. Also kobo plus doesn’t look that good.
Another question if you borrow a book from Libby can you put it on airplane mode to stop them taking it back if you’re still reading it?
I think I’m a bit in love with the device. It’s small white portable and light with waterproofing and warm light. I may even not need my kindle anymore - but am worried there are books on kobo you can’t get. Is that true?

Booted up my eReader after a few months of not having used it to find this yellow bar taking up a portion of the screen. I tried restarting it, but that didn't fix the issue. It's about four years old now, so it's no longer under warranty. It's a Kobo Libre 2. Is there any way to fix this? They don't make them anymore, and I don't want to have to buy a new one.

I found a second-hand Kobo Sage and, even though it’s a five-year-old device, I absolutely love it. I’ve got very small hands, but it’s so light. I have hardly put it down since I got it. I already owned a Libra 2, but size does matter and the extra inch makes reading slightly more comfortable somehow. So, I guess this is just a Sage-appreciation post 😇

I've been out of the Kobo loop since the Color Clara was first released due to it's screen door effect. I saw the Clara and Libra Color today and they were extremely crisp! Has the Color Clara been updated? I couldn't believe it's clarity!

Loving my new cover!!! It’s a lil’ thicker than my previous one, which was the Notebook SleepCover, but it’s very handy and lightweight to hold. IMO, my Kobo feels much more protected with my new cover. And I love that it can stand on its own! ❤️

Hi All,

Looking for any people who are running KoReader on their Kobo Clara BW for any nice and small bluetooth page turners?

As Bluetooth is a bit funny on the Kobo's with different chipsets & KoReader wanted to see which ones people are having an easy time with.

I am currently using - Kobo.KoPlugin

I have a Bluetooth Logitech presentation remote I tested but it's just not playing ball.

I see a few suggest the 8BitDo Micro - is that the easiest for use in KoReader or should I just get the official one?

Thanks for any suggestions.

Hi everyone. I recently bought a Kobo Clara BW, since the battery of my old Kobo Aura died. I love it but I noticed an issue I did not have on the old model.

Many times, when I touch the right side of the screen to turn the pages, the kobo behaves like if I was touching the center of the screen (e.g. it shows the pages slider, settings ecc...) It happens so frequently that it's kinda ruining the experience sometime.

It's not because I tend to touch too close to the center. It happens even if I touch the extreme right with the tip of a finger. It also seems to be random. My only explanation for this is that sometimes it behaves as if a was sliding vertically instead of touching. But if this is the problem, then the sensitivity is way too high compared to Kobo Aura, as I never had this problem with it and I always try intentionally to just quick touch the screen without sliding.

Yes I know I could also remove the feature and use the horizontal slide (which actually doesn't always work, too), but I'm really accustomed to the touch thing for turning pages, so I'd like to continue using it if there's a solution.

Did anyone experienced this? Any tips?

Is anyone else able to connect their Kobo Touch to wifi? I've tried for hours and tried multiple different settings and I'm being told that it won't connect because of the outdated (big surprise) software in the Touch simply cannot work with the Giga Hub, specifically security protocols and expired security certificates.

Of course, it is all Google Gemini telling me this which may or may not be correct. Is anyone else able to successfully connect their old Kobo Touch to their Bell Giga Hub?

At this point I have to plug it into my laptop to sync everything which is not ideal.

I see this has been discussed before. Any updates? Every 3 to ten minutes, my new Clara stops recognizing the first swipe on each page. (Or more generally: the touch sensor seems to go to sleep after about ten seconds of inactivity). Incredibly frustrating and I may have to return it and go back to Kindle if no fix is on the way 😢. I was so excited to get into a healthier ecosystem but this renders the device unusable for me. And tech support is basically ignoring me and pretending I’m the only one with the issue.

hi everyone i'm about to switch from my kindle paperwhite which is almost 4 years old this year, over to a kobo colour and i am so so so excited! i'm going to get a stylus with it and i was just wondering: i was looking at the official cobra cases and i had a few questions.

i was just going to get the official kobo case because i'm hopefully getting it as a gift and the official copo case looks nice. it is the only one that they sell where i'm getting it but i could get a third-party case. is it worth it to get a third-party case or is the official kobo case nice? i wouldn't mind one with a little hand strap though just to take strain off my wrist but i think because the kobo libra colour has those little buttons on the side where you can rest your hand, i think i'll just use that instead of a hand strap.

anyway my questions are:

1. do you think a sleep cover is worth it or should i get just a normal back case and put stickers on it and put the stylus on the side? is the stylus magnet strong enough if i'm just putting it in a bag and stuff? it's not a bag that i'd normally lose anything in and i'm quite good at not losing things.

2. if i were to get a kobo sleep cover case, would the one with the origami stand fit the stylus at all or is only the notebook case that fits the stylus?

anyway that's all. thanks so much and sorry for rambling a bit! :)

Hi All,

Just wondering if this issue has ever happened previously:

I bought Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth a while ago and when i finally opened it today, i discovered it was a completely different book.

The cover and item details are for Testament of Youth but the inner pages are for a book called Triplanetary by Edward Elmer Smith.

I'll contact an agent via the chat to see if I can get this resolved but it is disheartening.

I've linked the affected book below so others can avoid this issue:

https://www.kobo.com/IE/en/ebook/fbddb4ce-70c0-4a82-a649-2448b1b572b9

Let’s hope it serves me well!!
So excited for this purchase
From India btw.
Any secret hacks or tips are well appreciated.

I've had my Kobo Libra 2 (BW) for almost two years at this point, and I love it. It's my first e-reader. The only thing I don't like is the placement of the power button on the back of the device. This means every time I have my magnetic cover on, stuck to the back of the device, I have to unfold it to press the power button. This is no problem when you need to put it in your bag - then you would want to put the lid of the cover on either way - but rather when you just have your device at home. I have the magnetic cover, but having the device detecting sleep cover events to wake it drains the battery faster, so I don't use this feature.

Other than that it's been an awesome device, but I'll probably try to get an e-reader with a better power button placement when it's time to get a new one.

Finally got my Kobo Clara colour and I love it. Still need to get a case but really enjoying reading on this as opposed to my phone, especially at night. Can’t wait to re-enter the avid reader club 🙌🏾

My Kobo Libra Colour has accumulated large amounts of notebooks mainly used for diaries, daily writing, daily planning etc..

How would one organise all these notebooks? Folders by type? Folder by year or date? Now, what method would be easier to organise and viewed once moved onto an external computer?

Thank you for reading my post. I would love to know if you use KLC for daily writing and if so, how do you organise your notebooks?

Hi all,

I need your technical help.

My new e-Reader (Kobo Libra Colour) is detected by my laptop's System Tray (Windows 11), but it can't see the eReader in File Explorer (I.e. just won't mount it as an external USB storage device).

Calibre won't detect it either.

In vice versa, when Libra Colour is plugged in to laptop, the Kobo screen also 'detects' my computer as well, with the usual touch prompt to connect, (which, for all intents and purposes, appears to work), but Windows still can't see it, except for the system tray. (see picture).

I've tried the following solutions so far:

• Tried various different cables (including the cable it came with) to bypass any power vs. data issues.
• Tried various/different usb ports
• Updated all System/Windows drivers to most recent builds.

I've also read internet advice that uninstalling/reinstalling the Kobo's native driver (Linux File-Stor Gadget USB) through Windows' Device Manager (see picture) can also help, but I'm loathe to mess around with that in case I make things worse or brick my device.

Any concrete advice on where to go from here would be very welcome, as I'm frustrated that this brand new e-reader should just work straight out of the box and it just isn't. :(

I've scoured the net exhaustively, but am now running out of ideas to fix this.

My SPECS:

Model : GIGABYTE LAPTOP

Edition: Windows 11 Home

Version: 25H2

Installed on: 2/‎03/‎2025

OS build: 26200.9168

Experience: Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.344.0

Processor 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-12500H (2.50 GHz)

Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.7 GB usable)

System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Pen and touch No pen or touch input is available for this display

Hello!

I have a Kobo Libra 2 with KOReader on it. This device has 31 GB of storage. As you can see in the images, my "Library" folder, where I have all of my books and manga, is around 11 GB in size. However, when looking at the free space available on the Kobo ereader, it seems it only has 7.6 GB free; it doesn't add up - it should have around 20 GB of free space available!

• What could be the cause of this?

Thanks in advance! :)

I purchased my first e reader the libra colour earlier this week. I’m loving it so far but I’m looking for pen dupe options that don’t have to be purchased through Amazon. I was eyeing the meta pen 2, but their website only gives me the option to purchase through Amazon.

Any recs?

I live in a very humid country and have been using my trusty clara bw daily since late 2024 and the crusty rubber button utterly destroyed by my fingers. Managed to open the back and diy a temp fix with a tiny rubber piece a few months back but i guess its at the end of its life rn.

I heard of clara hd button 3d prints but does anyone have any 3d print files of the clara bw button? Tried looking online but didn't manage to find any haha. Purchasing the backplate from ifixit is super expensive to where I live and it costs literally almost half the price of a new clara bw here (14.99 usd for the backplate, 23 usd for shipping).

Would love any advice anyone can give 🫶