[cybmole]

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I have had the Aura HD for 6 months

It has never crashed, & I am not aware of it ever opening to the wrong page.

I don't care for footnotes so no comment on that.

2 fingered gestures are a total pain to master but the simple solution is DONT USE THEM! there are sensible alternative ways to alter font & brightness & how often do you need to do that anyway.

Highlighting a phrase can be tricky but was even worse on ny SOny devices - I needed a stylus with those to have any chance of accuracy!

I can read in bed with the built in light & I have no issues with that, either.

I don't show at Kobo store so all my experience is with sideloaded books.

So I don't use wifi - except once to get an upgrade. My battery life is excellent.

I should add that setting up the Aura up when it arrived was a nightmare - 24+ hours of panic, confusion, much posting here for help... compared with about 2 minutes to get a sony unwrapped & working - but that was a one - off experience, which I try to forget now!


There are only 2 areas for me in which my previous Sony readers were better:
1) Kobo will not zoom epub images so maps etc in books are useless.
2) the infamous "long paragraph" bug - which is allegedly fixed now in 3.5 - if that ever rolls out as far as the UK


My last Sony device- the T3 - managed to corrupt it's highlights/annotations database within the first 2 weeks & had to be geekily fixed via an ( undocumented) file deletion trick using a PC USB connection. Its bad hyphenation ( not present in previous models) was driving me nuts until I learnt how to hack books & disable it via CSS. Then its screen failed shortly afterward, leading to an 8 week fight for a refund. After that I vowed to never buy Sony again.