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Originally Posted by booklover6
A seller on Amazon has the Aura HD for $100, says they are new, and they are brown. I am so tempted. But maybe it's not worth getting the Aura HD. What do you folks think?
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I have one of the brown Aura HDs (they call it "Espresso") and I'm really happy with it. I like the size of the screen, and I also like the size of the bevel (which lets me grip it one-handed without my thumb activating the touch-screen). My hands are larger than average, so sometimes smaller is actually less comfortable. I find the weight of the HD just right, and isn't an issue. I wasn't at all convinced by the back of the HD at first -- it's alarmingly slippery, and I still much prefer the Touch's "quilted" back and rubber-like feel overall -- but I've learned to live with it, and it's never actually slipped out of my hand.
The screen of the Aura H2O looks nice, but (subjectively) not nic
er to a degree that would prompt me to make a new purchase while my HD still functions.
re: the blotchiness of the screen light -- it seems to be the luck of the draw. My first Aura HD had patchy light across the bottom of the screen from day one, and in a darkened room even showed shafts of brighter light up the screen; it was quite distracting. But Kobo recently replaced the device because of hardware faults, and the replacement has a very even light with no discernible patches at all.