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Been reading this thread for a while. I lost my kobo Glo few weeks back, left it a hotel and when called they said nothing was found. I am pretty sure it was there but oh well.
So, I've contemplated between Aura and Kindle Paperwhite 2.... but since it is easier to get an Aura at where I live and the experience with Kobo Glo wasn't bad, I thought ok let's get it.
I have mixed feeling about the Aura. One hand I love it. Beautiful device, flush screen, nice size, nice weight and I really like the fact the lowest light is so low compared to Glo. Very comfortable reading in the dark (with my Glo, I had to invert the bg color to read in the dark or else my eyes hurt). Oh the response and page turn are also much better, Aura capacitive touch screen is very responsive, me like.
On the other hand, the screen quality... sigh.
That diamond pattern I don't particularly care because I actually cannot see it. It's so micro that I really need to look for it. So I'm not bothered though perhaps some people might see it more visible than me.
Pinhole, I have 1 tiny tiny one that I'll miss if I didn't particularly look for it. Next to the home icon. So this don't bother me either, I can't see it.
My one and only irritation is the top half of my screen is much brighter. It looked yellow to my eyes and that one bright line at the top that made some sort of optical illusion that there's a dark bar. This bothers me a lot because I see it when I read, it gave me headache. Sigh.
I have to say as much as my old Glo comfort light was much brighter at the lowest settings, the light was very even. So I'm going to return it and get another one and cross my fingers. It's almost perfect (for me!). I'm willing to return it twice if needed... if both times still not good... maybe should just bite the bullet and get Kindle PW2?
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