{"id":27004,"date":"2025-10-15T06:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/?p=27004"},"modified":"2025-10-15T06:20:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:20:00","slug":"kobo-unveils-a-30-remote-control-for-hands-free-e-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/kobo-unveils-a-30-remote-control-for-hands-free-e-reading","title":{"rendered":"Kobo Unveils a $30 Remote Control for Hands-Free E-Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Points<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Kobo is launching a new remote control for its e-readers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The remote is a simple, wireless page-turner. It costs $30 and will be available on November 4.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It&#8217;s designed to allow for hands-free reading in bed or other comfortable positions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The remote will work with any Kobo e-reader that has Bluetooth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">E-reader company Kobo has a new accessory that&#8217;s perfect for the laziest of bookworms: a remote control. The appropriately named &#8220;Kobo Remote&#8221; is a simple, wireless page-turner that will let you read in bed all day without ever having to lift a finger to turn the page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new remote costs $30 and will be available to buy on November 4. It&#8217;s a small, simple device with buttons to turn pages forward and backward. The idea is to prop up your e-reader on a stand, get comfortable, and use the remote to keep reading without constantly reaching out to touch the screen. Kobo is calling it &#8220;the ideal reading companion.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The remote has been custom-built for Kobo&#8217;s products and will work with any of their e-readers that have Bluetooth, including the popular Libra 2 and the new Clara Colour. It will be available in both black and white to match the company&#8217;s devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;In a Canadian winter, we know that sometimes maximum reading comfort means burrowing down in the blankets,&#8221; said Kobo CEO Michael Tamblyn. &#8220;The Kobo Remote is the perfect accessory for peak immersive reading.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While a remote control for an e-reader might sound a little silly, it&#8217;s the kind of small, quality-of-life improvement that dedicated readers are likely to appreciate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Points E-reader company Kobo has a new accessory that&#8217;s perfect for the laziest of bookworms: a remote control. The appropriately named &#8220;Kobo Remote&#8221; is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techgolly.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}