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I had a 650 from when it was released but I was lured away by the siren calls of the Glo and its front-light, but I really had to bite down hard on the waste of screen space, and just accept it as the price to pay for a front-light. I have complained before to Kobo about the line-height and wasted space at the bottom (and the top for kepubs), with the hope that they would do something about it in a firmware update. Now I am thinking of buying an Aura tomorrow, partly to give me more screen space. How ironic--a shortcoming in one of Kobo's products is leading me to spend even more money with them! At least we can workaround the line-height problem ourselves (I edit all my epubs accordingly).
One thing is for sure--the Aura can fit more words on a screen than the Glo, and that is now my benchmark, as I have not used my poor 650 since I bought the Glo. The 650 is a nice reader, but Sony lost their way with the T1 and especially the T2.
So Kobo have played a blinder - artificially limit the text real estate so people are "motivated" to upgrading to the Aura with its larger screen.
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