[rashkae]

The screen is a beaut. Perhaps just a tad more bluish than my h20, but the difference is very slight, and can be just the luck of the bin draw. I can make out no difference in text rendering quality, (at least, not without shrinking the text to very very small print, which the Glo HD does admirably, but I don't think is all that practical.) It's deffinately better than the paperwhite 2nd Gen. Since I'm Canadian, I can't compare to Voyage, and I now doubt I'll bother.

The real surprise is the responsiveness of the touch screen. Do we have confirmation that this is actually IR and not capacitive? The raised bezel could just be a practical consideration, as a safe border to hold the device.

Sadly, the sleepcover is another disaster. At least this one will hold itself closed so provides good protection. However, holding the kobo left handed causes the flap to detach from the back and pop out annoyingly. It doesn't interfere with reading, so 'disaster' might be a strong word for something that just annoys me on principle. However, after my complete disappointment with the past several sleepcovers from Kobo, I think it's time I just bit the bullet and import some gecko covers. Trying and discarding Kobo covers is getting expensive.

The screen on the Glo HD combined with the Kobo font redering are both miles better than the Paperwhite, but the covers are one thing Amazon really gets right.


Edit: Speaking of the Sleepcover, the box says it's for either the Glow HD or the Kobo Touch 2.0 I suspect that bodes ill for people who were hoping the missing 2nd model was a new mini.