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Originally Posted by Fx_
Unlike what reviewers saying, I believe that Glo HD is an upgrade of Glo, in itself it's a revial of Paperwhite not Voyage. Think it as this way, Glo HD is geared towards being more financially feasible. Think of it in this way, why Aura is being more experesive with it's cheap old pearl screen Aura VS. Glo HD offered cheaply with a modern screen Glo HD. The price of Aura and Glo HD doesn't seems right at all. You could guess from this indirect analogy that more cost cutting approches went with Glo HD than Voyage.
Apparently, the QC with Kobo is less than Amazon's Kindle Voyage as I already read from different buyers review. Do not take my words on this.
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I can't change what you believe,and I don't feel offended.
But a "believe" can only be based on experience, what you don't have with the Kobo.
Don't judge what a device can,only by it's price, being cheaper doesn't mean,being less good.
Sometimes it is like with printers, they sell it under the price,just to get money from the cartridges.
Kobo can be more cheap when they think to earn more on the books.
When they made the price of the Kobo the same as the Voyager,it will not be better or the same quality of the Voyage.
I only read epubs because that is the majority of the books being sold here, I don't want to convert every book.
I think the whole comparisation between the Glo HD and the Voyage is wrong, a Glo HD is a Glo HD, and a Voyage is a Voyage both with cons and pro's.
A Kobo is very easy to root, so that will not be my issue.
For sure,you can make the darkness of a font as much as possible on a Voyage so it looks like the Glo HD, but u can do the same trick on the Glo making it even more dark.
Not want to rant or insult but judging a device you never tried only by make a comparisation of the price is maybe wrong.
An more expensive device doesn't have to be better, most of the time you will be more ripped off.
One manufacturer is happy with a marge of 10% while another wants 20%.
You can change it around, they could keep the price of the Voyage so high because there was no competition, that doesn't make a cheaper device less better,it only tells that Amazon made big money with it,and they can't make it to drop it now to come a bit more close to the Glo HD.
You made your choice,and I hope you are happy with it, but the points to "defend" your choice are in my humble opinion not based on real arguments, only based about what your "underbelly" says.
But as long as you are happy with it, it is fine to me !!
But I think you believe what Amazon tries to do to defend their higher price by pretending that a higher price does mean that it is a higher quality.
It's not.