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Kobo Touch 2.0 – The Next Generation of a Fan Favourite
Looking back on the good old days can be a lot of fun – a flashback to something great. If it weren’t for Wayback Wednesday or Throwback Thursday, we may not remember how much hair we had, what we looked like in jackets with shoulder pads, or...
Where to Read Outside when the Weather is Fine
5 terrific tips for taking advantage of summer’s booktastic reading conditions Whether it’s the bright dresses, crowded patios or soaring temperatures that tipped you off, there’s no question that we’re currently in the dog days of summer. For avid readers, that means you can crawl out from...
What We're Reading in July
Want to know what the booklovers at Kobo are reading in their spare time this summer? Here are the fantastic fantasies, beguiling bios, and top-rate thrillers that has our staff raving. Disclaimer by Renee Knight Why: Imagine picking up an unfamiliar novel on your nightstand, and realizing in...
Listen to Reese Witherspoon read the first chapter of Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman
It's the moment book lovers have been waiting for six months (or 55 years, depending on how you do the math): the follow up to Harper Lee's iconic, Pullitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Originally written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman--available now at Kobo.com--was...
Catherine Alliott’s top 10 tips for surviving the family holiday
Bestselling author – and Kobo/WHSmith UK author of the month – Catherine Alliott is no stranger to family holidays, or to writing about family drama. Her warm, witty, escapist novels feature characters you will recognize from your own life, and fall in love with just as fast...
5 Things to Read this Weekend
So many options, so little time. Here are our picks for a great weekend read: Dive into any of the short stories in Circus by Claire Battershill. Claire is the fiction winner in our inaugural Kobo Emerging Writer Prize – each of the nine stories in Circus reveals...
Visa Checkout now available at kobo.com
Introducing Visa Checkout: another quick and easy option for Kobo readers to purchase the content they love. With no payment and shipping info to fill out Visa Checkout saves you time to do more of the things you want – like digging into a brand new book...
6 NEED-TO-READ MAGAZINES THIS JULY
Take your summer to the next level with tips on everything from making the perfect summer smoothies to relaxation strategies that’ll help you kick back and enjoy. Here’s summer’s hot six: Add some heat to your summer with Cosmo’s Love issue where bestselling romance novelists Katherine Heiny, Emma...
View from the Fishbowl
Told through the lens of a goldfish named Ian, falling from the twenty-seventh floor balcony of an apartment building, Fishbowl (available August 4th) follows an eclectic cast of characters on a single day. There is the hunky grad student, his girlfriend, and his mistress; the construction worker who...
GREAT LITERARY “TRILOGIES” THAT DIDN’T STOP AT 3
Traditional wisdom suggests that good things come in threes. From the Bronte sisters to Destiny's Child, there's something undeniably magical about the number three. Sometimes though, three is just the beginning. Case in point: E.L. James’s new book, Grey, which is not so much a continuation, but a...