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I admire Kobo for their capacity to innovate and tackle their biggest competitors and Aura HD is a new proof of that. My first ereader was a Touch, and I'm now using a Glo.
That being said, I still think I am going to pass on the Aura HD...
And that is because I have become wary of the never-ending stream of bugs in the Kobo software and I have much less patience than I used to towards this state of affairs. It's beyond me how they can solve some bugs but "create" new ones that weren't there at almost every release. When I read about this minimum light bug with release 2.5.0, I was flabbergasted: for God's sake, with the number of people that are reading at minimum level in dark because it's just too bright otherwise, how could something like this be missed during testing? For the first time, I decided to simply skip on an update. Seems like 2.5.1. has solved that issue so I may consider upgrading. But there are bugs that remain unsolved since ages: I still cannot get annotations to work properly (they get erased, some aren't recorded) and bookmarks keep behaving weirdly.
Although I prefer Kobo's philosophy (open format reader, not trying to keep you captive of their ecosystem, etc), these software issues are bothering me more and more and I'm at a point that when Amazon will get out something similar to the Aura HD, I may very well be tempted to look if the grass is greener on the other side...
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