Cheap Gift Alert: Kobo’s Refurbished $50 E-Reader Sale - morganknor1997

If the $79 Amazon Kindle seems a bit pricey for your present-giving budget, Kobo has a cheaper alternate: the Kobo Radio receiver eReader is just $49.99 for a qualified time.

Yep, that's grease cheap all properly. In fact, it's $40 off the $89.99 list price. Caveats? Of course. The $50 Kobo Wi-Fi units are refurbished, but that's not of necessity a unskilled thing. At least refurbs have been inspected, which isn't always the case with new units fresh polish off the production line.

The $50 cope is one and only of those piece-supplies-end offers. And orders to "major city-born areas" must be situated past Wednesday, December 14th (by 11:59 p.m.) for pre-Christmas Day delivery.

Good, Basic eReader

The Kobo Wireless eReader debuted a year past. Information technology features a 6-inch, E Ink Pearl presentation; 1 Gigabyte of storage (expansile via SD remembering card to 32GB); and it comes preloaded with 100 free books, including so much public-domain classics As Charles John Huffam Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.

In her review of the Kobo eReader, PCWorld's Melissa Perenson praised the device's unhorse weight, as well as the sharpness and contrast of its video display. She didn't care for Kobo screen's slow down refresh rate, nonetheless.

"The Amazon River Fire and the Sony Reader Touch Edition still offer better performance. I could perceive monumental page flicker and some lag patc turning pages and navigating within the Kobo reader," Perenson aforementioned in her review.

Well, cypher expects a perfect eReader for $50. Given the price, the Kobo Radio receiver eReader refurbs will likely sell out fast.

Contact Jeff Bertolucci at Today@PCWorld, Chirrup (@jbertolucci) surgery jbertolucci.blogspot.com.

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