|
I'm happy with my conversion from Nook STR (with and without Glowlight) to Aura 6". The light is much, much better than that on the STR Glowlight, and from what I've seen on the internet it's better than the new Nook Glowlight as well (I haven't yet seen one in person). The screen is a bit whiter than the Nook's, but is slightly less white than my wife's KPW1. Overall, at least in my experience, the hardware is much better than the old Nook STRs.
If your library is currently all epub books, I would recommend using the Kobo Touch Extended driver in calibre for syncing. The kepub rendering engine (ACCESS) is light years better than the ancient version of Adobe's RMSDK that Kobo ships with their devices (though it's pretty much equivalent to the version B&N used in the Nook STR). Syncing your books as kepub instead of epub lets you take advantage of that. Of course that means needing to strip DRM, which you should be doing anyway. But if you don't want to strip DRM and you have Adobe ADEPT-protected books, the non-kepub epub experience on Kobo is on par with what you already have. I don't believe Kobo supports Nook's DRM at all, so if your library is all Nook books you'll have to de-DRM.
|