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Originally Posted by missimpossible
Oh man, I just typed up a long summary of my first few weeks' experience with my PW2 but the internet ate it 
Safe to say, I'm incredibly happy with my experience with the PW2, and don't regret not paying extra for the Aura HD at all - the slightly better screen was not worth the trade-off (for me) in terms of size, interface, and price, among other things. In fact, I can't stop reading on my PW long enough to deal with my neverending paper book stack! |
Good choice. I'm late to the thread but I can re-iterate nothing but problems with Kobos. The original WiFi Kobo wasn't too awful, but not really all that awesome. I ended up getting a Touch when it came out and started having nothing but problems with it, having to multi-tap(2-3 taps) to turn a page(on a fairly regular basis), resets, corruptions, locking(-> reset), and finally it bricked itself. Rather than going through the hassle(and expense) of sending it in for repair I just went out and bought a Nook Touch(planned to get a kindle but there were only older models in stock locally).
The Nook Touch was OK, but alot like the WiFi Kobo nothing of a big deal, so when the PW1 came out I picked that up and am still using it ATM. i.e. no real problems but I just never got to working well with it.
I ALMOST thought about trying out a Kobo Aura HD but this thread brought those painful shoddy Kobo fw memories back and why I swore to myself to never ever touch another Kobo product. Kindle PW1 has never reset itself, bricked itself, require multiple taps to turn one page, etc. but the "white" screen isn't really white and I look in askance at their suggested light levels, i.e. in brightly lit rooms/outside backlight is at min setting for me, and c. 16-17 in dimly lit areas. My only problem with the kindles are their use of their own Mobi/AZW format, but I used calibre to convert all of my old epubs to AZW3 so now I have everything in both formats.
I used a Palm IIIx for a very long time as my ereader(CSpotRun), and a Franklin eBookman for a while, then eventually got the mono Rocket(RCA then) reader and finally a Sony PRS-505 which I really liked, but it was a little slow feeling once I moved to the Kobo Wifi(this was my best Kobo experience which is why I took the shot on their touch v. B&N or Kindle but they phailed hard).
I still miss using the Palm IIIx sometimes as I liked the green backlight that illuminated the text...