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Old 01-01-2015, 05:28 AM   #25
Rhygell
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Device: SGS2; Kobo Aura or H2O?
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Originally Posted by burnafterreading View Post
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.
Wow! A brand-new glo+cover here is ... 190 USD (tax-inc).

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... 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.
This is for the Glo, yes?

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...it attempted to respond to ALL of my touches "INSTANTLY"...it seemed like it was tripping over its own shoelaces and getting in the way more than it should be.
the mental image makes me dizzy.

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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!)
That last line. Totally.

So ... I guess at this point it's just going to be a matter of availability. Thank you!
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