[Josieb1]

It all depends what you want. I love my PW1 and right now I don't want a PW2. I bought a Kobo Aura. I wanted a smaller lighter ereader for travelling. The Paperwhite has a better screen, I have pin holes on my Kobo, and the Paperwhite text is sharper generally, but I do like the Aura. I like its size, it's weight, it's not much smaller than the Paperwhite but it feels a lot smaller. It's discrete. I love Pocket, that alone is a good enough reason to get one, if you use Pocket heavily, which I do. I like how easy it is to play with fonts.

I buy DRM free mobi files so use calibre to convert to epub, I have settings set up in preferences which get rid of the 'widows and orphans' problem, allows for line height changes and embeds the font I want (I use the same font of both Paperwhite and Aura).

I am now in the situation where I wouldn't want to be without either, but I have a Paperwhite 1, a Paperwhite 2 for me is a downgrade due to the lack of being able to add my own font, plus I don't like the yellow screen.

So far, touch wood, I haven't had any software issues with the Kobo but I am conscious that I don't really want to add any upgrades as the software is not as robust as the Kindles.

Edited to say I also don't want Cloud Collections, another reason to avoid the PW2.