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Originally Posted by evanft
As someone who used to own an Aura HD and switched back to a Kindle 4, here are my thoughts.
- I'm glad it's the usual 6" form factor. I very much prefer this size.
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- I absolutely despise the recessed screen. It's one of the big reasons I got rid of my AHD. It traps crap and causes a shadow in anything other than ideal lighting.
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You can easily clean the screen and such with a cleaning cloth. As for the shadows, just set the margin slider so the text is just outside of the shadows. I have my H20 set for a margin of 1 and it's just outside of the shadow. There is a small shadow at the bottom on the screen from the front light, but that only affects the page number footer and not any of the text.
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- No page turn buttons. That's still stupid.
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That's not stupid, that actually better. Even Amazon has Readers with no page turn buttons. Tablets, phones, and Readers don't have buttons. They actually aren't needed. Page turn buttons are actually an annoyance. When I hold my H2O, I don't always hold it at the same place so sometimes I would not be holding it so I'd be able to use buttons. But with the touch screen, it doesn't matter where I hold it be it top/bottom/middle. I just do a simple swipe to turn pages be it on the right or the left side. Also, by having page turn buttons, it means I have less space to actually hold the Reader. Page turn buttons are obsolete.
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- Kobo's firmware is a dumpster fire of issues. My AHD was noticeably slower than my K4 in loading the same book and in page turns. It would randomly freeze or stutter. I had to go through a patching process to make the books look halfway decent. I had to do some tinkering to my K4 to get the font and margins I wanted, but it was a one time deal and was very easy. Working with the AHD was a real PITA. The number of options was awesome, though. Too bad there wasn't a "make it not look like crap" checkbox.
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I don't find my H2O to be full of issues. The page turns fast enough such that by the time I'm ready to start reading the next page, it's there on screen. Yes, the patches do help so you can make eBooks look how you want. But on a Voyage, you can't do this. You cannot change the look to how you want, you are stuck with a very fixed layout that's not even close to optimal reading. And the other two sets of settings are even worse. The tinkering you had to do to your K4 is even more difficult to do than the patches for Kobo. Kobo is not closing the ability to patch. Amazon has closed the ability to jailbreak. Kobo doesn't mind if people customize. Amazon want you to be stuck with their very limited suboptimal settings. My H2O does not look like crap. Never has, never will.
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- The price is fantastic. $130 for the Kindle Voyage screen? That's awesome.
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Yes, $129.99 is an awesome price. You get better hardware (front light is not multi-colored), better firmware, and a much better price.