[evanft]

Originally Posted by guitarizt

Well there's the better ergonomic design of other ereaders. Everyone complains about the Aura being slippery.

This is really just opinion, though. I actually find the Aura much more comfortable to hold than the KPW or K5.

Originally Posted by guitarizt

There's the poorly designed Kobo store. Amazon's store is infinitely better for buying books. There's Kobo's customer service from Hell.

While these are certainly both valid points, and I've also felt that with these devices you're buying into an ecosystem more than anything else, I think the fact that books from either store can simply have their DRM stripped off in Calibre and converted to a format usable by the other device mitigates the store issue somewhat. But, this is kind of inconvenient, obviously.

Originally Posted by guitarizt

There's the price factor of the Aura being almost twice the price of the PW after the $20 discount Amazon was giving out recently.

To be fair, the Aura is ad-free, has a bigger screen, a higher resolution screen, double the internal memory, and an SD card slot. The discount was also only temporary, so we're really talking about a $30 difference.

Originally Posted by guitarizt

There's waiting time to get an Aura.

I don't really see this as much of an issue. It's being shipped from Canada and Hong Kong. Given, it's not been as fast as Amazon, but I wouldn't really say it's bad enough to dissuade a reasonable person from buying it. I ordered mine on 4/20, and received it on 4/29. I'm only one person, so my experience is completely anecdotal and may not be representative. If they ever reach B&M stores in the US, though, the point kind of becomes moot.

I also seem to remember the KPW being difficult to get when it first came out. I seem to recall there being messages about it not being in stock for weeks when I was first looking at e-readers late last year. I could be mistaken, however.

Originally Posted by guitarizt

There's the big space at the bottom of the page in the Aura that you can't fix without having to modify the header/orphan on each ebook.

I've never experienced this. Can you please expand on this issue? I know about the issue with Kobo devices and CSS, but I was able to get around it with a bulk conversion in Calibre.

Originally Posted by guitarizt

There's the extra size of the Aura that some would say is a con because of the huge extra space gap at the bottom of the page.

I definitely agree that the large space at the bottom is wasted and should be customizable, but I'm still able to fit more text than any 6" device I've ever used. I also don't see how it makes the screen size a con.

Originally Posted by guitarizt

I'm sure there's other stuff I'm forgetting about. The page turn thing is huge. If I read about 1400 pages a month then I have to wait about an extra 20 minutes a month for page turns with something that should be on par with everything else because it is the next gen ereader.

If page turn speed is paramount, then I would suggest using an Aura for a bit and seeing if it's too slow for your tastes. It's not an issue for me, but I could see how it would be for someone.