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Yes I am upgrading.
I have owned an e-ink reader since the first iRex and several other momentarily advanced devices. Mainstream ones have included multiple models by Sony, Nook and Kindle.
I bought the Paperwhite 1 on advanced order and really liked the form factor and the front light. BUT the light was uneven at the bottom and annoyed me every time I read until I could become immersed in reading.
So for that reason AND a desire to not feed the beast (Amazon) I moved to a Kobo Aura HD.
Super display. The best I have seen. (and you can turn the light off completely) Evenly lit and great font control. Bigger but not unwieldy. I loved it. But here's that BUT again.
The Kobo infrastructure was a PITA. The Web site is difficult to navigate and requires too much left/right and top/bottom scrolling. The social networking stuff is intrusive (you can turn it off). Also, when I side loaded books via Calibre my collections (bookshelves) depopulated.
Very sad because the reader itself is fantastic.
So I'm back in the Amazon ecosystem waiting for the PW2 to arrive and hoping the new light guides work as smoothly as did the Aura HD.
If not, as Mets fans say "there's always next year".
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