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Originally Posted by l_macd
There is also a video review (also in Italian, but turn caption on and you get English subtitles). Watching it makes me wish for the Aura body to contain the PW screen and interface, but with the Aura's superior customisation.... |
Me too, me too.
I'm in the (urgent) market for a new reader as my K3 just bit the dust. I don't buy any of my books from Amazon and was hoping this time to move to a different reader so I could leave my collection as a set of definitive clean EPUBs. Added to that I don't really care about store features, cloud syncing and the like that only come with books purchased from that ecosystem.
My priorities are reading experience (hand feel, adjusting settings on the fly, selecting a new book) and screen quality (contrast, lighting) and it seems dead even.
* The Aura would allow me to leave everything as EPUBs, has the flush screen that I love, and capacitive touch to adjust the light in a really neat way. However I'd feel like a bit of a numpty spending a £10 premium on last years eink tech.
* PW2 requires the same conversion I go through now (easy enough to do, I'd just rather not), looks ugly compared to the Kobo and may not be as nice to hold in one hand. However from experience I know most of those things tend to fade away when you're in the middle of a good book and I think the PW2s superior contrast + lighting would come in to its own.
I can see positives and negatives anyway but just can't decide either way. I have a week or so until I finish the paper books I have on hand so if anyone has any suggestions then I'm all ears.