On this episode of Mac Power Users, Stephen and I welcome back Jason Snell to talk about e-readers in 2026. Jason’s our resident e-reader guy at Six Colors, and he reads about a book a week, so he’s earned the chair.
We get into Kindle versus Kobo, library reading with Libby, color screens for comics, and the smaller, weirder devices like the BOOX Palma and the tiny Xteink X4. Jason also walks us through the AI pipeline behind his new Six Colors audio newsletter, and Stephen plays a cloned version of his own voice that was somehow less haunting than I expected. By the end of the conversation, Jason had me ready to pick up a Kobo Libra Colour, which means I’m giving up on the long-standing dream of an e-reader that also handles my Readwise highlights and RSS feeds. Sometimes the unitasker really is the right answer.
Episode Links
- Kobo Libra Colour Review: Color, but at what cost? – Six Colors
- Boox Palma review: A phone-shaped e-reader – Six Colors
- Shop all Kindle | Amazon
- Kobo Sage | Rakuten Kobo eReader Store United States
- Libby
- hoopla | streaming audiobooks, music, video & ebooks
- GitHub – crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader: Firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper display reader
- Daylight | A More Caring Computer
- calibre – E-book management
- Goodreads | Meet your next favorite book
- The Incomparable – Smart, funny pop culture podcasts
- Apple in China | Book by Patrick McGee | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster
- Rethinking RSS, newsletters, and how I read every morning – Six Colors
- Stephen Robles: “My AI Voice” – Mastodon
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