Got Aura HD from Harvard!
First thing I fired it up with a cropped technical PDF and put it next to the 950... It looks great on both, but 950 wins do to the wasted space on the bottom: Page XXX of YYY... Hoping Kobo patcher eliminates this.
Fiction is a joy, this is my first backlit reader and I am so loving it... Kind of heavy compared to 350, my old favorite fiction reader but I think HD's versatility makes it worth it. The resolution, to me, is indistinguishable from printed books, and I have 20/7 vision... Hoping HD will take over rolls of both 950 (technical & published PDFs) and 350 (fiction).
Wish the power switch wasn't flush with frame, I fumble for it a little in the dark... Takes too many taps to get to Backlight brightness adjust. Only nitpicks so far, still learning the interface. Works great with Calibre, but not sure the kepub plugin I installed is working.
Really nice reader, feels like what Sony should have put out after the X50 line... I agree with eriksnoopy Sony's readers have become hopelessly outdated. But Kobo has come a long way, this is a fantastic reader!
