[aceflor]

Originally Posted by Quexos

Ok here is a review, a comparison of the Aura vs the Kindle PW.
It is very interesting to notice how the reviewer points out at the "wasted space" in the Aura, making the total amount of text in a page almost equal to the same text on the 6" PW ...
This is interesting because it shows we are not the only ones noticing this "wasted space" issue.

"Because of the way Kobo formats things (aka books),There is very little benefit of having a larger screen on the Kobo"

Spot on !

Thanks Quexos for posting this review, which is excellent btw, I must say I find any review from Nathan really good. He has a very good blog.

Here another excerpt from his review, this time the written one :

When you have the two devices side-by-side, the screen size difference does not seem overly significant. The Aura HD’s screen is about half an inch wider and three quarters of an inch taller.

The crazy thing about the size difference is that it doesn’t necessarily mean the Kobo fits more text on the screen at one time than the Kindle. In fact, comparing the same exact ebook with the same exact font type, I was able to get the Paperwhite to display more text on the screen than the Aura HD. In the video below I demonstrated a situation where the Kobo had 1-3 more lines per page when comparing the same book, but I later found a more comparable font size that shows the Paperwhite displaying more lines per page, as the picture at the top of this post illustrates (click it to see a bigger image).

The amount of text you can fit on the screen is the opposite of what you’d expect simply because the Kobo ereaders waste so much screen space with spaces between paragraphs and a huge bar at the bottom to display the page numbers and one at the top of the screen to display the book’s title. Personally, I much prefer the Kindle’s way of formatting, but it all comes down to personal preference.

It is nice for the Kobo crowd if they can get the formatting they want, but for me, who has a PW and bought the Aura to get more and not less text on the screen, the Aura has turned out to be first not that great with 2.5.1 but then really a big disapointment with 2.5.2 As Kobo seems to be updating quite often, I will wait for whatever version the next one will be, but if it still has the same shenanigans, the Aura will land presto on ebay.