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Libra Color

Owners keep the Libra Color for reading and note taking in color, and most say they are satisfied with it despite living with a mixed screen and app experience.

Read from 159 owner accountsUpdated September 23, 2026Compare it

What keeps coming up

Overall satisfaction is unanimous among the owners who raised it: people describe settling into daily use, comparing it favorably to past e-readers, and having no regrets about the purchase.

Recurring in 15 of 159 accounts · See accounts

What keeps coming up against it

Owners are divided on the color e-ink technology itself. Several describe the color as dull or washed out and were told by support that this is normal, while others find the color rendering good enough for study material and note taking.

Recurring in 4 of 159 accounts · See accounts
Life with it

Once owners settle in, the color screen keeps its appeal for the tasks people bought it for: textbook reading, highlighting, and note taking. Screen size draws consistent approval, and several owners specifically say they needed color for university work and have stayed satisfied with that choice well past the first weeks.

What becomes routine is managing the trade-offs. Battery life comes up often as something owners adjust their charging habits around rather than something that gets fixed, and the app and software experience splits owners between people who find it fine day to day and people still waiting on features they asked for.

Reliability & repairs

Device longevity leans positive among owners who comment on it, several describing devices that are still working after a year or more of regular use, including through drops that cracked the screen but did not stop the device from working. Build quality itself is split, with owners divided evenly between good experiences and complaints.

The long-term accounts here are thin: device longevity draws only 5 accounts total, so the picture of how these hold up over multiple years is not well established yet. Owners mostly describe workarounds, like adjusting charging schedules or using color sparingly, rather than reporting outright failures.

More detail
What owners praise, where they are split, and the follow-up timeline

What owners praise

  • screen quality9 of 15who raised it
  • screen size3 of 4who raised it

Where owners are split

  • color screen quality11 for · 13 against · 5 mixedof 29 who raised it
  • app usability10 for · 7 against · 2 mixedof 19 who raised it
  • color display8 for · 6 against · 0 mixedof 14 who raised it
  • build quality6 for · 3 against · 2 mixedof 11 who raised it
  • battery life3 for · 2 against · 2 mixedof 7 who raised it
  • device size1 for · 2 against · 2 mixedof 5 who raised it
  • feature requests2 for · 1 against · 1 mixedof 4 who raised it
  • ergonomics2 for · 0 against · 2 mixedof 4 who raised it

Nothing has a clear majority against it yet. Counted from the owners who raised each subject, not from everyone. A subject is judged once at least 4 owners raise it.

30 more subjects came up from fewer than 4 owners each, which is not enough for a fair reading. To see how it stacks up, compare it with another machine.

Does it still kick?

2 weeks3 months6 months1 year2 years

The same owner, asked again at each point. Fills in as owners answer.

Where this came from

Where this came from

Public discussions we read and summarised in our own words. Nothing here was submitted to Still Kicks.

Counted from public accounts by people who said they own it, and summarised by Still Kicks in its own words. Not a manufacturer claim, a lab test or an estimate.

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