[Lennier]

After giving up on the Kobo Aura I purchased a Sony PRS T3. It has no internal light, it's not as stylish, it's slower to start up and shut down and generally it's not as slick as the Kobo Aura. But it is well made and free of the annoying quality control screen issues that seemed to plague all 3 of the Kobo Aura's I had during the space of a month and I'm liking it a lot.

I'm not missing the Kobo's internal light and I'm finding the buttons in addition to the touch screen rather handy. It's small, the landscape/portrait option is great as is the cropping option to get rid of overlarge margins (better than the Kobo as you have more control), the screen is a lot whiter and clearer, and the sleep cover is free (although only really protects the screen and not the back of the ereader) and the ease with which you can fold the cover back on itself makes it feel more like a book than the Kobo's own pricey sleep cover.

I had one minor issue trying to download books direct to it from the Reader Store (finally figured out I hadn't set it up correctly by downloading the software using the file on the ereader itself - my own fault for not reading the instructions) but otherwise it has been problem free since I purchased it last week direct from Sony. The Kobo Aura was the first ereader I'd purchased and it was almost the last. But the T3 has converted me.