There is a power button on the back, and a USB/status indicator light on the bottom. The Kobo buttons are raised and have a satisfying level of torque when you press down on them. This is one of the big problems I had with the Oasis 3, there is literally no spacing between the two buttons. The manal page turn buttons have enough space between them, where you won’t accidently click on the wrong one. The design is similar to the Oasis 3, that is made of aluminum and the Kobo Forma. The industrial design of the H2O is asymmetrical and the entire device is made of plastic, this is how Kobo was able to cut costs and offer this e-reader for $169 USD. This is because the water droplets are recognized as touchscreen interactions. Normally e-readers that just have a touchscreen, will not recognize interactions if it is submerged or if there are many water droplets on the screen. Here are a few caveats, you can’t use the touchscreen if it is completely submerged in water, but the manual page turn buttons work fine. If you are an utter and complete klutz like me, you constantly spill drinks everywhere, and this e-reader will shrug it off with ease. You can use it in the bathtub or at the beach or anywhere there is water, without damaging the screen. Rakuten says its HZO Protection gives the Kobo Libra H2O water resistance an IPX8 rating, with endurance of up to 60 minutes in 2 meters of freshwater. If you are a casual reader, maybe a few hours, here and there, you should get around a month. The Libra is powered by a 1,200 mAh battery that should provide two weeks of constant reading on a single charge. The SD card is soldered right onto the motherboard and cannot be expanded. The internal storage stems from an SD card that is only evident if you take the e-reader apart. Underneath the hood is a Freescale Solo Lite 1GHZ processor, 8GB of internal storage and 512 MB of RAM. The lightning system is primarily used in low light conditions and they are better than using the a nearby lamp or a reading light, since the e-reader lights do not normally interfere with your circadian rhythms. It also has an auto mode to adjust the light automatically, although this device does not have a ambient light sensor, it instead uses whatever timezone you are in. They can also be used independently of each other, or shut off completely. The white and amber LED lights can be used at the same time, with a slider bar in the drop down menu. This is great for long reading sessions, because the light is not shining into your eyes. They are using white and amber LED lights on the bottom of the screen and they project light upwards and evenly across the screen. Kobo has incorporated a front-lit screen and their patented Comfortlight screen technology in all of their modern e-readers. I find that plastic based screens that has a small dip, offer better resolution. This means it is using Neonode Z Force IR technology for the screen interactions. The screen is not flush with the bezel, instead it has a small recess. The Libra features a 7 inch E Ink Carta HD display with a resolution of 1,680 x 1,264 and 300 PPI. The big selling points is that it has manual page turn buttons, a new e-reading system and the same design sensibilities as the Kobo Forma, but it costs $100 less. This device is going to be available around September 15th in North America and will hit Europe and other markets later this year. The Kobo Libra H2O is the latest generation e-reader from Kobo.
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