Kobo’s colorful e-readers are more affordable than the competition and still plenty powerful.

It's a colorful world now with e-paper devices, opening up a sea of color e-reader and digital notebook options like never before. Who wouldn't want a little color splashed on the paperlike screen, giving a feeling of a real page?

These color e-readers can do everything a regular e-reader can, but they let you see your book covers and illustrations in their full glory and add colorful highlights to the pages of your latest read. Some even let you write colored notes on the pages or in the digital notebook built within it. It makes for a really fun experience, especially if you're a book-annotator type of person (I aspire to be such a person, but I usually lose steam halfway through a good book) or love graphic novels.

I've tried several color e-readers and e-paper devices in my testing, and as I ...