With the grid view, I noticed more titles appear and it’s easier to ID the books you are reading. You can sort it out by the cover art or check out more of a grid view. Obviously, your books category is where ALL of the ebooks and content you load onto your unit are stored.

When you hit the Library option on the Kobo Glo, you have options to check out ebooks, newspapers, previews, and shelves.

Many e-reader’s libraries mainly just bring you to your bookshelf where all of your titles are located. The main options are Library, Get eBook, and Reading Life. Not much has changed at the very core of the reader other than some of the menu options. The main Kobo homescreen should make people who have experience with the Kobo Touch feel right at home. The home button is something we sorely miss and this device would get a higher rating if it employed manual page-turn buttons. The hardware does suffer a little bit the longer you use it, and we found ourselves in many circumstances where it becomes unresponsive. Pictures and cover art in ebooks look amazing. In the end, you do notice the extra 200 MHZ processor that the Glo has over the original Kobo Touch. It will be very interesting to compare both models against the Glo in the coming weeks. When we saw the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite at the Amazon launch event last month, we were blown away by the solid white glow. The Glo feature as a whole works fairly well, but has a soft blue tinge to it, similar to the Nook Simple Touch with Glowlight. Once the light comes on, a small little scroll bar appears on the bottom, that allows you to slide around to find the optimal settings. So how does the Glo function work? On the top of the device next to the power button is a small button you press to initiate the glowing feature. It is a bit slimmer and shorter in height, which makes it immediately a little more pocket friendly. It is also more lightweight than previous editions of Kobo readers. You will still garner around 1-2 months of reading time. On average, you are not sacrificing too much battery life to employ the new “glo” feature. Not only can you buy content, but you can also surf the internet with the built in browser. Now that Kobo has gotten into self-publishing with Writing Life, there is more of a selection from up and coming indie authors. You can purchase or download for free millions of ebooks from the expansive ecosystem that the company has developed. This new e-reader from Kobo gives you full WIFI internet access once you connect to your home computer or a hotspot. When you load ebooks and other documents on the SD, the device immediately recognizes it and puts the books into your main library. You can expand it up to 32 GB via the Micro SD card. There are 2 GB of internal memory, which is 1 GB more than the Kobo Touch. Once you get used to the home button shifting positions based on the content you are viewing, it shouldn’t be an issue. The main downside of this is that depending on what you are doing with the e-reader, the home button often changes from being at the top left hand corner to the bottom. Instead, Kobo opted to go the software route. Kobo has done away with the home button that has been a trademark of the company since the first Kobo Reader was released a few years ago. Menu navigation and accessing settings is fairly quick, but the touchscreen does suffer some some delays the longer you use it. Underneath the hood is a 1 GHZ Freescale processor, which amps things up from the 800 MHZ processor found in the Kobo Touch. The exact pixel count is 1024 x 758 and pictures look simply amazing when viewing complex PDF documents. The Kobo Glo employs a new type of e-Ink Pearl XGA technology to give you a superior resolution. This makes longer reading sessions easier on the eyes and allows control over the luminosity. The main difference between this model and most tablets on the market is that it uses a front lite display and not the traditional backlight. This super high resolution display gives you a way better ebook reading experience than most other devices on the market. The eagerly anticipated Kobo Glo e-reader has just hit the market and gives you the unique ability to read in the dark.

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