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Originally Posted by Rhygell
Ok, size, check.
Why do you hate the touchscreen - in what aspects? Would you say you'd prefer the Glo over the H2O?
Please excuse my nitpicking  |
i would have gotten the H2O if i had more money to burn, but (here in Canada) a new H2O is $180+tax, whereas i got a barely-used Glo+sleepcover for $70-notax. the dollar figure is what made me go for Glo.
at first i wished i could have justified the H2O due to the screen size, but when i found a tweak that removes the header/footer and made the screen more full of actual book-text, i was fully happy. it was one line of code in a config file, easy as pie.
if i hadn't found the used Glo+cover for that price, i likely would have planned on an H2O for the spring.
as for the Aura (6") screen, i don't know - it was laggy like a typical eink, but it attempted to respond to ALL of my touches "INSTANTLY". hmm, that doesn't make sense, does it? ok, the reader attempted to do something with every ever-so-slight finger touch that it managed to detect, but the refresh rate is so much slower than normal LED/tablet that it seemed like it was tripping over its own shoelaces and getting in the way more than it should be.
and for reading ebooks, i'm not sure how useful multi-touch really is. the tablet kills it for multi-touch and can read PDF files perfectly, so... i dunno, on that device, to me it's a solution looking for a problem (and being one!)
the 6" Aura was going for $100+tax but i think the store had a promo that also included a cover.