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I'm pre-ordered. The process worked fine. Now there's nothing else to do. Maybe I will get a chance to watch someone else review of the H2O. (Maybe if they loan one to Nate Hoffelder? or someone like that who knows eReaders.)

I made my decision after some thought and decided to get an Aura H2O. My primary interest is in reading and the Kobos make reading easier than did Sony, nook or Kindle and I don't like reading on a general purpose tablet. My iPad Mini is great as a portable computer but even in "white letters on black screen" it hurts my eyes after awhile, and even the smaller Mini version is too heavy for reading. I find it unconsciously drifts down until it ends up in my lap rather than at eye level. After half an hour of that I have a crick in my neck. Even the vivid color wonderfulness of the iPad ends up a distraction.

Give me a big, clear, black and white screen with improved clarity and a front light so I can read in any lighting, my choice of any font I find anywhere, make the page fully configurable to justification, margins, line height and font size and weight, give it a long battery life, fast page turns, text search, text underlining, note taking, a good dictionary, an expandable memory and a reasonably light weight and I'm good. Now is that asking too much?

Improved durability? Yeah okay. Moisture and dust proof is nice, and a reliable bookstore to feed it is nice too, but it must use a standardized format so I can buy my books from the other bookstores--I don't want to be locked down to only one source for my more expensive books and I don't want to buy an eReader that is locked down to a proprietary format because I spend a lot more money on my library than on eReaders and I don't want to risk the investment, not even on a Kindle because nothing lasts forever.

I don't want a color eReader either. I buy picture books printed on paper, big sheets of paper, printed in the millions of colors printing presses can reproduce but handheld devices cannot. A new Kindle is coming soon and probably a new iPad but I don't care. The Aura H2O does what I need and does not do what I don't want, so all there is left now is the wait.