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Originally Posted by meeera
Can I ask exactly what you mean by "sync", here? If you just mean putting books on a Kobo device, you can do that with Calibre via USB, or via the Calibre content server over wifi, or via Dropbox and the builtin browser and wifi, or by the other dropbox-style service of your choice, so long as it plays nicely with the rather rudimentary browsers you find on eink devices. (Another way of getting books on without digging out a USB cable is to use a micro SD card.)
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So the device browser supports downloading files? I admit I'd forgotten about the web browser.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "you have to update the device's database after transferring by USB" - this happens automatically in normal situations, no user intervention required. Calibre can also manage shelves on the device, which is truly handy.
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Sounds I like misunderstood how it worked then.
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So that might not actually be an issue for you. However Kobo doesn't do PDF reflow, which might be a dealbreaker for you. Check out the Sony devices for that. Or test the sort of PDF you might be using on an Aura, to see if you can deal with it. But honestly, if you do a lot of PDF reading, and those PDFs include diagrams and fancy formatting and such, you are very unlikely to be happy with a six or seven inch eink device - a tablet is a fair better tool for those.
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For the most post, the lack of flow shouldn't be an issue for me, but that's good to know about, thanks. Plus I get eyestrain very fast if I try to do any kind of extended reading on a backlit screen, so tablets aren't really an option either way.
One other question about the Aura - do you know if the case for it that's available on the Kobo store can be folded back around the device? I haven't been able to find much information on that, and while I do want a case I also don't having to hold the flap open while reading.