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5.0 out of 5 starsNew primary book reader!
Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2017
So I have Kindles, Nooks and now exploring the Kobo series of e-readers.
I have a stack of them.
Why? Seriously, who wants to carry around 10,000+ books? I DO.
My library goes with me and is backed up a LOT.
It fits on this 8gb onboard storage with room to spare.
I have put images in showing the comparisons of screens.
First picture:
From left to write
Left is a Kindle Paperwhite I bought this February [LOVE it, but these Kobos are in fact slightly BETTER]
Next is a Kobo Aura H2O Gen 2 (6.8" screen)
Third is the Kobo Aura ONE (7.8" screen)
Far right is a B&N Nook reader SimpleTouch with GlowLight
2nd picture: Aura One (7.8") side by side with Nook
3rd picture: Aura H2O [second edition] side by side with the Kobo Aura One
That orange-ish light is totally adjustable in brightness / intensity and you can go with normal light [like a the paperwhite display] during daylight hours. But it is very easy on the eyes.
Page flipping has to be handled by pressing on the screen or swiping (presses can be adjusted to be vertically oriented [top back, bottom forward] or adjusted for horizontal. Swiping the page works as well.
The paperwhite has a nice 6 inch screen and is utterly convenient to Amazon marketplace and beastly to anything else [no epub support even in 2017? come on]
Now, the kobos start at 6.8" for the Aura H2O and go to 7.8 inches for this model (Aura ONE). As any woman can tell you, inches count.
All of these are comfortable to hold in the hand, but the ability to easily sideload and use multiple formats has really made this Aura One reader stand out among the crowd.
Oh and did I mention waterproofed?
Want to read in the tub? By the pool? Oceanside? Kobo has that covered OUT OF THE BOX.
Amazon, if you are listening?
Bring this blueblocker tech into the next revisions and allow for other formats.
All of the other e-reader builders
My biggest complaint about ALL of them is BOOK MANAGEMENT. Let me have and easily organize thousands of books based on FILE STRUCTURE inside the e-reader!! Nook comes close but it only lets you view them in cover mode.
I want to SEE my filenames in a nice series of lists and genres (directories). Do this and us bibliophiles will beat down your door.
A second place alternate is allowing readers to manage tags [genres, authors, titles] and to easily manage collections via software on a laptop.
Oh and BULK SELECT is a must.
Final rant
I do information security. I DO NOT trust cloud based solutions farther than I can throw them.
If it's online it can get lost, copied, stolen, held for ransom.
And disk space [micro sd cards] are dirt cheap. 32gb for 12 bucks is more space for books than I will ever use.
Equifax losing control over 143 million records and Deloitte losing 250,000 customer facing private emails only makes me avoid the cloud more.
Carry your library in your palm. Pick one of these readers up. You won't regret it.
