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I have to add my love for my H2O as well.
For so long I had only bought Barnes and Noble Nooks, always stuck with their eink line. As features changed, or were removed, I shrugged it off. The models themselves were always upgrades to the previous generation, though their current Nook Glowlight is a very questionable upgrade to the Nook Simpletouch w/ Glowlight due to a lack of an SD card slot and limited storage built in.
Eventually things changed with B&N, they kept making choices and changes that seemed bent on controlling their customers experience, and my eye wandered.
I knew I didn't want to go with Kindle, their format choice alone was more than enough of a reason. I'd been aware of Kobo, I liked some of the things I had heard. But trying to find one in a store was next to impossible. I was a little afraid of ordering an ereader sight unseen, it's easy to get pictures to look fantastic, it's quite another to make sure every demo unit in stores is on par with what your claiming.
I bit the bullet after one last change in policy from B&N, my H2O was on its way. And though I had some less than great chats with Kobo CS about tracking numbers and delivery dates, my H2O arrived safely and fairly quickly.
It was love at first use, the customization possible with the H2O blew away the Nook. The built in fonts are great, but loading your own? The weight option, margins, line spacing, need I go on?
Then I discovered just how powerful Calibre and Kobo could be when combined, and Geoff's patches.
But Kobo wasn't done impressing me, they've released more updates in firmware in the short time I've had my H2O (since it launched) to now, than Barnes and Noble had for their last two eink devices. Sure there are bugs, and things don't always change the way users may want. But that's where the patches come in, with them you can really tweak things to your liking when reading.
I wont pretend my H2O is perfect, but it's giving me what I want and what I need.
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