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Old 09-17-2013, 12:31 PM   #76
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where are they actually shipping from? (for us canucks..)
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I travelled into London today to buy the Aura from WH Smith. When activating instore I found that unfortunately the screen has a glowing pinprick of light about 1cm from the bottom and in the middle - must have been a flaw in the coating. WHS were kind enough to swap it for another, which had two pinpricks of light. They opened the two more they'd received in and they were the same. In fact the only one that was OK was the demo on display. I ended up leaving without one. Shame because they were scanning at £115.38 and WHS were giving a £5 voucher if you activate instore, so it would have been almost a £10 saving on the RRP!

Is yours OK?
Looks like that answers my question from a few weeks ago:

Looks like Kobo Aura screen is plastic, not glass

http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/review/kobo/aura/525452/

Wondering if it's susceptible to light leakage from pinholes like some other front lit readers?
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Old 09-17-2013, 12:46 PM   #78
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WHS were giving a £5 voucher if you activate instore
That's very interesting! Is there any interest for WHS if customers activate the device in-store?
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Old 09-17-2013, 12:48 PM   #79
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That's very interesting! Is there any interest for WHS if customers activate the device in-store?
It applies to any Kobo device. So the £29 Mini would get £5 off too.
Maybe it's related to the Kobo/WHS partnership - they get commission from sales from devices activated instore? Just a guess.
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When did you preordered it? I'm in Quebec City so I'll cross my fingers
I ordered it the first day of launch, so that would have been August 27th.
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where are they actually shipping from? (for us canucks..)
I'm not 100% sure. My credit card was only charged yesterday, and I received it today. I would suspect that it's shipping from somewhere in Ontario given the speed of delivery.
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Old 09-17-2013, 01:18 PM   #82
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bartveld, I am jealous!

I travelled into London today to buy the Aura from WH Smith. When activating instore I found that unfortunately the screen has a glowing pinprick of light about 1cm from the bottom and in the middle - must have been a flaw in the coating. WHS were kind enough to swap it for another, which had two pinpricks of light. They opened the two more they'd received in and they were the same. In fact the only one that was OK was the demo on display. I ended up leaving without one. Shame because they were scanning at £115.38 and WHS were giving a £5 voucher if you activate instore, so it would have been almost a £10 saving on the RRP!

Is yours OK?
This is what worries me about buying online, and especially from WHSmith. I keep hoping John Lewis gets it as I know with their customer service I would be fine.
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I'm not 100% sure. My credit card was only charged yesterday, and I received it today. I would suspect that it's shipping from somewhere in Ontario given the speed of delivery.
From Toronto
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Old 09-17-2013, 01:37 PM   #84
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I'm not 100% sure. My credit card was only charged yesterday, and I received it today. I would suspect that it's shipping from somewhere in Ontario given the speed of delivery.
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Old 09-17-2013, 02:13 PM   #85
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First Impressions
Despite my rant yesterday, and despite having received no shipping notification my Kobo Aura 6 inch ereader was delivered to my door this afternoon. I’ve played with it for a little while and here are my first impressions.

It is a gorgeous device. I really like the industrial design that the screen is flat without a bevel. It makes it feel very tablet like – and avoids messy crumbs being caught! eReaders aren’t normally noted for their look, but I really love what Kobo has done with this. From other reviews I’d seen I’d been concerned about the reflection of light on the screen, but it didn’t seem to be any more noticeable than on the Glo.

The screen is really lovely, too. Comparing it to the Kobo Glo, it’s an incredible difference. You can see some pictures here:

The Kobo Aura is on the left.





and compared to the Kindle Paperwhite (2013 edition)



The Aura’s Comfort Light is warmer to my eyes than the Glo’s and certainly much more even, and in comparison the Glo’s screen seems somewhat muddy. Page turns are the same on both devices. This is hardly surprising, given that they both have the same processor. However, the Aura only does a full refresh each chapter which makes reading smoother than on the Glo which refreshes every six pages. I didn’t notice any ghosting on the Aura at all.

With regards to the new functionality coming with the new devices, I checked out the Pocket integration. It is fantastic. Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been saving articles to my Pocket account and they were all there for me on my Kobo Aura when I linked my accounts. Awesome. That is a functionality I will certainly make use of. The multitouch brightness control works well, too.

However, it seems that Kobo’s Beyond the Book still has some ways to go. I downloaded a sample of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit that I have seen used to demo Beyond the Book and did indeed see that some items were indeed underlined. Clicking on these took me to an error page. I think it will be some time before this feature is as fully formed as Amazon’s X-Ray, which was able to import Shelfari data (Shelfari is owned by Amazon)

All in all it’s a lovely little device and looks great.
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When activating instore I found that unfortunately the screen has a glowing pinprick of light about 1cm from the bottom and in the middle - must have been a flaw in the coating.
Is yours OK?
I've thoroughly and closely searched for pinpricks but no...

Calibre works flawlessly with the Aura; have my 600+ books now on external card.
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Old 09-17-2013, 02:20 PM   #87
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One more question for the folks that received their Aura.. Which shipping company is Kobo using to ship the Aura? CP, UPS, Purolator?
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Old 09-17-2013, 02:23 PM   #88
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Old 09-17-2013, 03:22 PM   #89
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All in all it’s a lovely little device and looks great.
Any word yet about being able to take the back cover off and swap out the internal memory, as is possible on the Glo? (I really don't wanna give up my 16GB upgrade...)
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Any word yet about being able to take the back cover off and swap out the internal memory, as is possible on the Glo? (I really don't wanna give up my 16GB upgrade...)
The Aura doesn't have an internal SD like the Glo from all reports I've read.

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