--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: An Artistic E-Reader image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd3a2667e91539372/698a8a37c9e941fb4412299c/kobo-libra-color-best-inventions.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Oct 30, 2024 # An Artistic E-Reader ## Video: Best Inventions: Good Habit | Bad Habit [Watch (HLS stream): Best Inventions: Good Habit | Bad Habit](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/IcGBmvCk.m3u8) (1:35)  _Published 2024-10-29. Leaders from Mila's Keeper, Sony Electronics, Artera AI, Harbor, and Mill share their good habits... and their bad habits!_ by Raymond Wong  Kobo’s Libra Colour is the first mainstream e-reader with a color e-ink screen that gets illustrations just right. “A lot of companies give you a lot of settings for how you can control and configure the color,” says Ramesh Mantha, senior vice president of product management at Rakuten Kobo. “Our philosophy was we don’t want people to have to think about how to adjust the screen.” The 7-inch device’s vivid colors most noticeably benefit comics and graphic novels, making them feel true to their print versions. The notetaking experience is also greatly improved; using a stylus (sold separately), you can highlight text in color instead of boring gray. **Buy Now:** Kobo Libra Colour on [Kobo Books](https://fave.co/4hfKjk6 "undefined") | [Amazon](https://amzn.to/4hfMlAJ "undefined") These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094611/rakuten-kobo-libra-colour/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094611/rakuten-kobo-libra-colour/"},"headline":"An Artistic E-Reader","datePublished":"2024-10-30T10:59:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T11:54:27.171Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094611/rakuten-kobo-libra-colour/","keywords":["Tech","E-Commerce","list","franchise","Magazine","best inventions"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd3a2667e91539372/698a8a37c9e941fb4412299c/kobo-libra-color-best-inventions.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd3a2667e91539372/698a8a37c9e941fb4412299c/kobo-libra-color-best-inventions.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094611/rakuten-kobo-libra-colour/","name":"An Artistic E-Reader"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Best Inventions: Good Habit | Bad Habit","description":"Leaders from Mila's Keeper, Sony Electronics, Artera AI, Harbor, and Mill share their good habits... and their bad habits!","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/IcGBmvCk/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2024-10-29T19:07:32.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/IcGBmvCk.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094611/rakuten-kobo-libra-colour/","duration":"PT1M35S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094611/rakuten-kobo-libra-colour/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```