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I can't wait to get my Kobo Glo HD. I'd be interested in you expanding on your thoughts/impressions on the Glo HD.
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Well ..it was easy to set up and get registered. I had an existing Kobo account so that took all of about 5 minutes and my library about 400 books synched quickly. The battery was charged to about 50% so the first thing I did was charge it, which probably took about half or three quarters of an hour. If you have not had a Kobo before you will probably really like the ability to change font weights in order to increase contrast. The back light is great, a very small amount of shadowing, very compreable to my Voyage. The Voyage has a slightly whiter background but the resolution/sharpness of the fonts appears to be very much the same. If I had to give one an edge I would probably slightly favor the Voyage, but if you looked at both of them together you would never pay the additional premium for the Voyage unless it just was a matter of preference for the Amazon system. I use calibre to manage my library so it's not an issue for me. What it is better than the Voyage is the larger number of font choices and ability to fine tune the fonts.
If I have a slight complaint it's when side-loading a book you can run into a problem with the bottom margin not being consistent from page to page. I beleive I resolved this problem with the Kobo Glo, but it was a few years back and I don't recall what exactly I had to do. This problem does not seem to be an issue with any of the books I bought from Kobo.
All in all - I can say it has exceeded my expectations.
