FOREFRONT CASES Cover for Kobo Nia - Lightweight Kobo Nia Case - Purple - Thin, Protective Kobo Nia Cover with Auto Sleep Wake, Shell Design + Stylus

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Like all other Kobo ereaders, the Nia comes with OverDrive support in many countries, so borrowing ebooks from a public library is seamless. And you can switch from reading on the device to the Kobo app on your smartphone or tablet (in case you’ve left the house without your ereader) without losing your place. It’s hard to quantify exactly how long a single charge will last you as it depends on how long you read each day, what brightness your screen is set at and how long you spend browsing the Kobo Store on the device.

The Kobo branding is the only design element on the top surface of the Nia (Image credit: TechRadar) Reading experience

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For comparison, I owned an earlier Kobo reader (2-ish years ago) and currently also have a Kindle reader. In addition to the long run as a tech writer and editor, Jason spent over a decade as a college instructor doing his best to teach a generation of English students that there's more to success than putting your pants on one leg at a time and writing five-paragraph essays. While his days of steering students toward greatness are behind him, his lifelong desire to delight, entertain, and inform lives on in his work at How-To Geek.

Moreover, all Kobo devices offer better file support than a Kindle. Whether you want to read comics, look at images or read text files, you’ll be able to view EPUB, MOBI, PDF, PNG, JPG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, TXT, HTML, CBR and CBZ files on the Nia.The most annoying thing about Kindle is that it opens to an advertisement, not your book. In contrast, Kobo opens to wherever you left off -- in your book, at the book cover, or at your collection of books; not at an advertisement. I'm truly sorry to hear about the inconvenience you've experienced, and I apologize for any frustration this may have caused. A lot of reading information is available at your fingertips on the Kobo OS (Image credit: TechRadar) Kobo Store Thanks to a newer processor (1GHz i.MX 6 CPU) and a more streamlined interface than before, the Nia is definitely a far superior ereader to what the Aura was, and can give the Kindle a run for its money.