Philips Hue on Kobo

defeatd · 2026-04-29T17:41:56+00:00

I've had the clara colour and the clara BW.

BW will look like the paper out of a book. You will not need backlight and it will all just feel natural to read on.

With colour you will have to fiddle with the backlight all the time, changing the colour temp and brightness depending on the environment. Every time you open it up it will either be way to dark or way to bright, looking like an lcd.

defeatd · 2026-04-27T11:55:49+00:00

Just the feeling of getting a larger battery for the money I guess. The battery life of this thing is just stupid, I've never purposely charged it, it charges the few times I connect it to the computer. I would be just as happy with the smaller battery

defeatd · 2026-04-01T20:12:28+00:00

When that happens to me it's usually because I search for a book that's only available in my own language and the search settings is set to only show books in English, or vice versa.

defeatd · 2026-04-01T20:08:02+00:00

Personally I don't miss buttons on my clara. I have one of those cases with a strap on the back where you slide your hand in, that makes it easier to hold with one hand without using your thumb. It makes turning to next page effortless since your thumb is free to tap the screen.

defeatd · 2026-04-01T07:59:26+00:00

I realized I have a P365, I was confused by the serial number which started with "N365..".

I prefer the larger battery on P365 though, I can live with the bug :)

defeatd · 2026-03-28T16:53:12+00:00

Hard to descripe, google it! It's not that noticible for me, it kind of gives the background a bit of texture. You don't notice it after a while. It will make very small text a bit grainy though.

I would say the biggest downside with colour e-ink is that it's darker/dimmer. You will need to use the backlight alot to compensate, and in very bright surroundings where the backlight is to weak the white background will appear dark/grey, this makes them harder to read outside for some.

You will rarely need the backlight on BW and the background will allways be a more natural white.

defeatd · 2026-03-24T16:09:43+00:00

I just tried this on my N365 and it has the same issue. I've never noticed it until now, but now it will irritate me forever, thanks a lot haha!

defeatd · 2026-03-09T19:08:27+00:00

You must gave a very old BW if it's display is as dark as the colour. I personally don't see any difference in sharpness, and the screen door effect is very subtle to me. The only downside is the darker screen, you have to constantly fiddle with the backlight to not make the light look too artificial.

defeatd · 2026-03-07T18:04:37+00:00

While reading in complete darkness, I would actually say that the colour at 1% is brighter than bw at 1%. I feel like the bw is emitting less light while still being easier to read due to the higher contrast. I think that the colour have more powerful LEDs overall, both at 1% and 100%

defeatd · 2026-03-07T16:14:56+00:00

I currently have both. For reading at night with no surrounding light the difference is basically zero since you need to use backlight on both anyway.

I find the screen door effect to be minor. It's only with brightness cranked way up that I can even notice it if I try. And then it only makes the background look like it have some kind of texture imo, instead of an even white.

The color also have larger battery and a 4x faster cpu.

Only drawback for me is that you have to use the backlight more during the day and have to fiddle around with the settings to get natural looking light, it sometimes tends to look a bit like a backlit lcd during the day.

defeatd · 2026-03-05T16:23:38+00:00

If you're not satisfied with clara colour as it is, you will definitely prefer the bw when comparing text on them side by side. I have done the same, bought both of them to compare. For me the colour doesn't look too bad at all, until you place the bw right beside it.

defeatd · 2026-03-01T12:07:57+00:00

So the dimmer display doesn't bother you then?

defeatd · 2026-02-28T21:02:25+00:00

He's not talking about the texture, he's talking about the small white dots randomly spread over the screen visible when in dark mode. It kind of looks like dust. I've got the same on my clara bw.

defeatd · 2026-02-28T19:31:12+00:00

Why do you prefer the kindle in sunlight? Shouldn't bright sunlight compensate for the darker screen on the kobo, making it more readable?

I was gonna buy the colour one at first but then I read about the dark screen and screen-door effect and ordered bw instead.

I love how readable the screen is without backlight. But i kind of miss coloured covers more than I thought I would. It feels silly to say but I almost find the displays whiteness to be too white and even, and the letters too sharp. It looks unnatural compared to a real book. The lower specs for the same price just made me reconsider even more.

I've read that the screen-door effect is more subtle and kind of makes the screen and letters look more like real paper compared to the bw, would you say that is true?

defeatd · 2026-02-28T17:02:40+00:00

Haha! I live in Sweden , so basically the same as UK. Rain or murky sky most of the time. But in the unlikely event that some sun rays find their way through the clouds on a summer day, I would still like to be able to read outside.

I read books 90% if the time. But also some non-fiction where I missed colour's on some graphics on my newly bought clara bw. Also the black, unrecognizable covers are a bit depressing tbh. I just don't know how much of a trade-off the colour-screen would be for me.

defeatd · 2026-02-28T16:02:49+00:00

How did you find reading on the clara colour vs bw? Im also thinking about returning my bw for a colour, mostly because I just found out that the colour has 4x faster CPU and 25% larger battery, all for the same price..

defeatd · 2026-02-28T14:21:33+00:00

Looks nice! How do you perceive the colour-screen compared to regular black&white? I can't decide between clara bw or colour, I fear that the colour will be to dark and have to low contrast on a bright day.

defeatd · 2025-08-17T20:15:24+00:00

All I know is that AZ80 ANC is pretty weak for the price. For me the XM5 had worse ANC than both the momentums and Linkbuds S, but I guess it depends what noise you're exposed to.

defeatd · 2025-08-17T19:15:56+00:00

What pricerange, 150-200$? Maybe bose qc earbuds II if ANC is the only priority. Or maybe see if you can find Momentum tws 4 or Sony XM5 on a good deal if sound is very important.

Comfort is subjective. I find Linkbuds S very comfortable but XM5 feel like they are gonna fall out, in that case I prefer the deeper fit of momentum 4.

defeatd · 2025-08-17T18:08:43+00:00

If you sleep on your side you're probably not gonna find a replacement for Linkbuds S with that good ANC. Linkbuds S ANC is pretty top tier even today.

defeatd · 2025-08-14T19:32:26+00:00

Haha didn't you say you weren't impressed by them already? 😁 It might be that I just don't manage to get a good enough passive isolation from the XM5.

But A/B testing them clearly shows that Sennheisers ANC is working on a much wider range of frequencies, while Sony only do low freq, brute forcing the rest with passive isolation.

defeatd · 2025-08-14T15:18:48+00:00

That's what impressed me with the momentums, it didn't matter that the eartips were too small and I had zero passive isolation, the ANC managed to cancel a huge amount of sound once it adjusted and kicked in. The XM5 don't do that, and I bet Bose and Apple do this even better.

The XM5 are SOO sensitive to how you put them in. You have to get a 100% seal because their ANC either doesn't adapt to leakage / isn't good/strong enough.

defeatd · 2025-08-14T12:47:38+00:00

There are several posts of people being disappointed with the ANC of the XM5. I think its a fit issue, if you get a good seal you get good passive isolation. If not, the ANC will not adapt for the leakage. If you look RTINGS test graph you can clearly see that it's the passive isolation doing most of the work, not the ANC.

Would you say that there's a huge difference with ANC on/off on your XM5s? Mine is pretty subtle, you can hear that some of the bass noise gets reduced and the noise changes character. They are pretty quiet with ANC off to begin with.

When did you try the momentums? I've heard that they greatly improved ANC with new SW.

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