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Originally Posted by GeoffR
The speed of page turns and other things is going to be affected by how much time and memory is used by other things.
Features such as typeface kerning, automatic hyphenation, adjustable typeface weight and sharpness all require time and memory during the rendering process. Even if the rendering is done in advance and the results buffered, they still take extra memory which impacts on the speed of other things.
The question is: what is more important to reading? Pages that turn a fraction of a second faster, or those extra typographic features that are lacking on the Kindle?
There is a trade-off: you can do it faster, or you can do it better. I think Kobo has made the right choice.
(But of course, all the reviews will compare page turn speed while very few will mention kerning, automatic hyphenation, etc.)
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It may be that all of the reviews compare page turn speed because that is more important to the majority of people. Even more important is having the page turn consistently when the screen is tapped.
I love my Aura HD, and I do read on it, I just tend to read on my Kindles more. The biggest reason I use the Kindles more is the touchscreen--for me, a capacitive touchscreen works so much better than IR that there's really no comparison. I love the way the Kobo UI is organized, I love the stats, and I really like the ability to make the font darker. All of that is completely useless, though, when I'm deep into a story and I tap the screen and move my eyes to the top of the page and see...the same page I was reading. If that happened once in a while, it would be one thing. Unfortunately, it happens two or three times in an hour of reading. Even worse is when I'm reading in bed, and the corner of the blanket touches the screen and turns the page.
I realize that there are people who have issues with capacitive screens, and for them, the IR screens on the Kobo readers are great. I had a lot of issues with the IR touchscreen on the Kindle Touch, too, and gave that away after about 2 weeks. The fact that I still use my HD at all is a testament to how much I love the UI of my Kobo. I just wish I could love the touch screen as well.
Shari