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Synamon · 10-31-2013, 04:15 PM

I've bought each of these over the past two weeks and tried them out since our Kindle Keyboards are nearing the end of their life. Despite reading many accounts of problems with screens on here, both of these readers were perfect out of the box. They are wonderful lighted readers with the latest and greatest screen technology and which works best for you depends what your needs are.

The Paperwhite is very responsive, comes with the Kindle ecosystem (I especially like the ability to email/send books to it wirelessly), has great dictionaries, and can be used in landscape mode.

The Aura firmware is a bit sluggish and there are more complaints about bugs, includes Pocket integration, and has excellent font customization options.

Since my husband likes to read in landscape mode and I need an easy way to load books onto his reader wirelessly, he's using the Paperwhite. Since I use Pocket to save things from Flipboard and want to customize fonts, the Aura is mine. We are both happy.

10-31-2013, 04:15 PM	#30
Synamon Lunatic Posts: 1,691 Karma: 4386372 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Land of the Loonie Device: Kindle Paperwhite and Keyboard, Kobo Aura, iPad mini, iPod Touch	I've bought each of these over the past two weeks and tried them out since our Kindle Keyboards are nearing the end of their life. Despite reading many accounts of problems with screens on here, both of these readers were perfect out of the box. They are wonderful lighted readers with the latest and greatest screen technology and which works best for you depends what your needs are. The Paperwhite is very responsive, comes with the Kindle ecosystem (I especially like the ability to email/send books to it wirelessly), has great dictionaries, and can be used in landscape mode. The Aura firmware is a bit sluggish and there are more complaints about bugs, includes Pocket integration, and has excellent font customization options. Since my husband likes to read in landscape mode and I need an easy way to load books onto his reader wirelessly, he's using the Paperwhite. Since I use Pocket to save things from Flipboard and want to customize fonts, the Aura is mine. We are both happy. Last edited by Synamon; 10-31-2013 at 04:19 PM.