[oj829]

Have not gotten too deep or played too long with it, but I have now spent SOME time with the Glo HD.

1. Hate that "button". Hate it. HATE. IT.

2. Onboard wifi still has non-broadcast SSID issues? WTF, Kobo?

3. Decline using a book cover for sleep/power off, and it becomes a bit of a challenge to determine what state you're in in the dark (...in bed) after deciding you really should get some sleep. Hold down that button (for just the right amount of time, which takes some trial and error) - that button which I hate - and you still have to look out for a discrete little "Powered Off" message in the lower left corner of the screen. Well, um, you already shut the light off, Kobo, and your "Powered off" is light grey on a black background. With no light in the room or from the device.

4. Legibility. I don't think it's leaps and bounds above the Glo, but I'm using much larger fonts these days because eyes, but certainly, the borders are smooth at the font size I am using. And I have always believed smoothness on large fonts is a big deal. So - so far, so good. Also, I'm not 100% sure that my need to use the larger fonts on the GloHD is entirely physiological. I still haven't convinced myself that there isn't some mediocrity about the device which I can hopefully tweak.

I'll need some more time to really see how it performs with smaller print.

5. I was dreading the toggle in the user-preferences which lets you hide non-downloaded books in your Kobo store library, because I thought it would ALSO hide my sideloaded ones (IOW, that it would only show Kobo-downloaded content).

Happily, this was not the case. The sideloaded books STAY visible in the library, and I am not eternally teased by books which are in my Kobo cloud, but not on device.

6. I like the new bezel/grip, and if, as others have posted here, this thing has glass in it, more the better that I ordered the official Kobo cover for when I schlep it around (if I ever decide to). HOWEVER, with the official cover, mounted.... comfortable one-handed reading is not as easily had as it is with a classic Glo. Even with my inhumanly large hands, I really can't one-hand the HD for very long and use whatever digit is hanging out in front to quick page-turn. If the experience is better without sleep-cover protection, then all the better that I recently bought a refurb Glo classic for travel.