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Old 03-13-2016, 09:16 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by meeera View Post
Just to address a handful of points:
- you have broken the glass substrate on your Sony. I doubt that repairing it would be a cost-effective thing to try to do.
I was hoping the thing was just unplugged or misplugged... Also, I am not sure what the glass substrate *is*. There doesn't appear to be any crack or anything. The display is just weird.

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- LED frontlighting uses very little power, and makes a big difference to contrast.
- To make it easier to tap on footnotes it's a fairly simple matter of reading kepubs not epubs (either buy/download the book direct from Kobo, or convert with Calibre using the Extended driver).
- The Kobo Aura H2O is larger and heavier because it has a significantly larger screen. This is a big advantage if you're reading PDFs without reflow. To reflow them, you can install Koreader.
All good points, and great info. How easily flashable are the kobos anyways?

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For buttons without a Kindle, you might look at some of the Android eink readers. I believe there's a big tradeoff in battery life, however.
Hmm... i thought kobo and others *were* android readers... which readers are you refering to in particular?
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