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Originally Posted by Canuck_in_Japan
That's an extremely poor review. Any review that mentions "backlight" should be thrown in the garbage because it's obviously written by someone who has no idea what they're talking about.
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And it's not just a slip of the keyboard, there's a whole section titled "Backlight"! Furthermore, there is this pile of nonsense:
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In line with the current e-reader trend, the Kobo Aura comes with backlighting, operated by the button along the top edge. With the ComfortLight (as the company calls it) at 100 percent, we recorded an average brightness of 405 lux, which was brightest toward the top of the page. This obliterates the lux recorded on the older Kindle Paperwhite (208 lux) and the Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight (102 lux). The Aura's brightness level even beats the Kobo Aura HD's 326 lux.
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Who cares what the maximum brightness is? Anyone who actually reads with a frontlit ereader knows that they (well, the current majors, sorry I don't know much about the minors) all have a maximum brightness of Far Too Bloody Bright, Turn It Down Already. Who's got the brightest 100% level is irrelevant to anything.
Without a photo of the "light bleed", it's impossible to assess what they mean and whether it intrudes into the text area or affects reading. They go on to say:
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And, while it's brighter than the competition, we preferred the slightly dimmer look of the Kindle Paperwhite's light for reading, assuming you always have the light at 100 percent.
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*headdesk*.
They've also somehow managed to review the minutiae of all the trimmings and fripperies, but missed the key Advanced font-tweaking features. All they say is:
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The Kobo Aura offers 11 font options, including Dyslexie, which was created for dyslexic readers. Readers can adjust the font to 24 different sizes, as well as manually alter line spacing and margins.
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