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Originally Posted by toddos
But that's not really comparing apples to apples, then. KPW is a 6" device. AuraHD is a 7" device. If I'm choosing between a Kindle and a Kobo, it seems the comparison would be between the KPW2 and the Aura 6".
Personally, there were two main reasons I chose Kobo:
- As much as I love Amazon as a shopping place, I dislike their approach to selling ebooks (refusing to use the industry-standard epub format) and devices (lack of font selection on the KPW without hacking, refusing to provide access to the Google Play Store on the Fire, etc), and
- I'm a Nook lover and buy most of my books from B&N, but they're seriously dragging their feet on new Nook hardware and my Glowlight is dying.
If Barnes & Noble had a dog in this hunt (the Glowlight is 2 generations old now, with no successor in sight), it would've been a very easy choice. Instead, I got to choose between getting a KPW, hacking it for font selection and functionality, and converting my moderately-sized epub library to mobi/kf8, or getting a Kobo Aura and keeping my epub library as-is (but using Calibre plugins to sync as kepub for extra functionality). |
I bought the Aura HD before the new PW came out --- and I don't regret it at all. If I had to make the choice now I would be more tempted to get the PW2, but in the end I would still get the Aura HD. I want the bigger screen, period.