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Originally Posted by JSWolf
You left out under the Kindle Voyage...
- Larger amounts of wasted screen space without using modified fonts and/or jailbreaks
Amazon's margins are pretty big and the line height for KF8 is also pretty big. So those do total up to a lot of the screen going unused and you cannot fix any of this by the way you code your eBooks. You have to embed a specially modified font to fix the line height and you have to jailbreak to fix the margins and with the Voyage, it is not yet known if it can be jailbroken.
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Relative to an unpatched Kobo, it's not bad at all. An unpatched Aura HD with a book that hasn't had it's CSS altered probably shows about the same amount of text as an a K4NT.
I have as much problem with the way the Kindle handles margins, line spacing, and fonts as anyone else, but I'm not going to deny that a stock Kobo with a book that hasn't been specially altered wastes a ton of space as well.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Actually, for the Kindle, I would think the ecosystem would be a - as it's more of a walled garden. If you do not remove DRM from your eBooks, then Kobo has more options where to buy eBooks then the Voyage. And if you live outside of the USA, and have access to a library that has Overdrive, you only get ePub. In the US, yes, you do get Kindle eBooks via Overdrive, but a number of publishers only put out ePub. So still, not all Overdrive eBooks are Voyage compatible. This is a big + for the H2O.
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You can buy pretty much any book anywhere and put it on either device with a Calibre conversion. With the ecosystem, I was speaking more to buying books directly on each device and how the experiences compare to each other. In regards to both selection and price, I very much believe that the Kindle offers a superior experience.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Also, we don't know yet how the battery of the H2O compares to the battery of the Voyage yet as the Voyage is not released and the H2O is not released long enough. So any talk of the battery isn't appropriate yet. You cannot go by past devices.
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Eh, you're probably right, but isn't the Aura H20 essentially an Aura HD with waterproofing and the carta screen? If that's the case, I think you can make some pretty good assumptions about the longevity of the device.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
As for page turns, when comparing the HD to the PW2, the HD has a lot more to have to update because of the higher resolution. You now have to compare like to like given that the Voyage has the same resolution as the H2O.
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Judging by the limited number of videos released so far, the Voyage seems to turn pages as quickly as the PW2.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Amazon uses infrared on the Touch and it works very well. Sony has used infrared on some of it's Readers and it works very well. So please don't say that infrared doesn't work well. It does and it's been proven by Amazon as well as other companies. And another thing, capacitance touch ads another layer to the screen, so given two identical devices, one with capacitance and one with IR, the chances are the one with IR will be clearer even if only slightly so the device with the light and the capacitance touch has two layers on the screen while the IR only has one.
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I'm just going to have to completely disagree here. I have not used a single IR-touch based ereader that had the responsiveness of the capacitive PW1/2 or the Kobo Aura. Sure, page turns work fine, but trying to type on the keyboard or do a lot of quick touches is a lot more difficult with IR touch than capacitive.
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Originally Posted by booklover6
Another thing, the flush screen of the Voyage may not be something people like. My Aura has that flush screen, and it is the least sharp of all my Kobos.
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That wasn't necessarily due to the flush screen. That was almost certainly due to the touch layer Kobo chose to use on their device.
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Originally Posted by booklover6
Also, taking that thing outside to read, I see every freaking particle of dust. Taking my Kobo Mini outside, I don't see any of that. Huge difference. I don't know how the Voyage will compare, but I won't be using my Aura outside in daylight.
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I think this is more to due with the front of the Aura being closer to glass than the mini, so it makes imperfections stand out a little more. I notice on my Aura that fingerprints or dust aren't nearly as visible as on my iPad, for example.