Thread: Kobo Aura HD or Kindle Paperwhite 2013?
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Old 07-19-2014, 07:54 PM   #49
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Originally Posted by mystika1 View Post
How is the software on the Aura HD compared to the Kobo Glo? Honestly, I was glad to give my Glo to my husband after fighting with the software. Towards the end of my use of it, I was having to reset the device more than once a week because of freezes. Then after reset I would have reload all of the books.

I decided to update my husbands Glo(which is my old one) to the new 3.5.0 firmware. Everything updated smoothly and his books opened fine, but later that night when he went to read....it was non responsive. (Wasn't the first time it happened either)I had to reset it. Once my husband was finished reading, the device couldn't be put to sleep by sliding the button. He had to wait and thankfully it went to sleep after fifteen minutes. (Not a huge deal, but it should work as it did before)

My kindle may not have fancy abilities or a big screen....but I have never had glitches or anything that required a reset. Nothing worse than reaching for your reader(especially in the middle of the night) only to find that the thing won't wake from sleep. I am sure you will find people who have had issues with Kindles, I just wanted to give my experience. At one time, I loved my Glo and the glitches didn't bother me. I kept thinking that they would work it out, but it never happened for me.

Hope this helps,

Penny
I'd be interested in hearing opinions on this issue too. One of my annoyances with my Touch and part of the reason I'm replacing it is that about one in three times that I plug it in it will crash after being ejected. Sometimes this results in the books I have added not appearing which means I need to reattach it and go through the same process again and hope it won't crash this time. I also have an issue with page turns being unresponsive and double page turns. I don't know how much of this is firmware-relate and how much is just my particular device but it's definitely been a consistent flaw. So I'd be interested to know how this has developed through newer iterations of Kobo devices?
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