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anacreon · 09-01-2016, 03:43 AM

I've been playing on this when I should have been sleeping, and all in all I'm pleased with the device, and I hope most of the rest will improve with a new F/W, a few charges, and experience.

* The real estate is lovely. I attach photos taken under very low lighting, with the Aura One and the Glo HD light at 40%, so my camera blurred some and didn't do justice to the lighting quality of the One at night, nor to the font sharpness (this has something to do with the fact that there is no way yet to augment the weight of sideloaded fonts, unlike the Glo HD to the right). This is to show bigger is better. Also I liked that Kobo left the number of lines per list, and of tiles per page unchanged, which looks better and is easier on my eyes - they might have taken into consideration the average age of the reader users.

* I don't like the red light, but with or without the pinch of pink I added, the screen at night is very pleasant, specially when compared to the Glo HD, which feels kind of greenish to me now.

* The battery is a problem, which I hope will improve with a few charge cycles: after two hours with 40% lighting, the Wi-Fi on and admittedly a lot of experimenting, it dropped from 100% to 79%. After two more hours without Wi-Fi and more proper reading it dropped to 56%.

* Some PDFs remain unreadable (mostly those Google scans), but others (mainly modern books) have become readable, preferably in good light, just clicking on the width arrow, then tapping like for a kepub.

* I have difficulties with the capacitive layer, even though the good German reviewer said he found it very responsive. Just entering the Wi-Fi parameters was difficult - either it didn't respond, or suddenly there were 3 or 4 characters instead of one. Same problem when tapping, swiping is ok. It might be the fault of my arthritic hands, but I never had a problem with the IR. EDIT: That might also be partly due to how slow the responses are. It feels slower than the Glo HD, even though I had downloaded only a small part of my working library.

* I like the format of the reading list, which looks like the recently read books with a bigger cover and the beginning of the metadata, which covers the info I want.

* I can read one handed with the left hand (I can't with the right one, whose arthritis is worse), though small, probably not for hours, but enough until I change position anyway, and it works better than the Glo HD for me when lying sideways in bed.

* The blue button is perfect: no problem putting the device to sleep or turning it off/on, the last was very difficult for me on the H2O and the Glo HD.

09-01-2016, 03:43 AM	#90
anacreon Guru Posts: 978 Karma: 3475832 Join Date: May 2012 Location: France Device: Elipsa, Sage, Libra 2	I've been playing on this when I should have been sleeping, and all in all I'm pleased with the device, and I hope most of the rest will improve with a new F/W, a few charges, and experience. * The real estate is lovely. I attach photos taken under very low lighting, with the Aura One and the Glo HD light at 40%, so my camera blurred some and didn't do justice to the lighting quality of the One at night, nor to the font sharpness (this has something to do with the fact that there is no way yet to augment the weight of sideloaded fonts, unlike the Glo HD to the right). This is to show bigger is better. Also I liked that Kobo left the number of lines per list, and of tiles per page unchanged, which looks better and is easier on my eyes - they might have taken into consideration the average age of the reader users. * I don't like the red light, but with or without the pinch of pink I added, the screen at night is very pleasant, specially when compared to the Glo HD, which feels kind of greenish to me now. * The battery is a problem, which I hope will improve with a few charge cycles: after two hours with 40% lighting, the Wi-Fi on and admittedly a lot of experimenting, it dropped from 100% to 79%. After two more hours without Wi-Fi and more proper reading it dropped to 56%. * Some PDFs remain unreadable (mostly those Google scans), but others (mainly modern books) have become readable, preferably in good light, just clicking on the width arrow, then tapping like for a kepub. * I have difficulties with the capacitive layer, even though the good German reviewer said he found it very responsive. Just entering the Wi-Fi parameters was difficult - either it didn't respond, or suddenly there were 3 or 4 characters instead of one. Same problem when tapping, swiping is ok. It might be the fault of my arthritic hands, but I never had a problem with the IR. EDIT: That might also be partly due to how slow the responses are. It feels slower than the Glo HD, even though I had downloaded only a small part of my working library. * I like the format of the reading list, which looks like the recently read books with a bigger cover and the beginning of the metadata, which covers the info I want. * I can read one handed with the left hand (I can't with the right one, whose arthritis is worse), though small, probably not for hours, but enough until I change position anyway, and it works better than the Glo HD for me when lying sideways in bed. * The blue button is perfect: no problem putting the device to sleep or turning it off/on, the last was very difficult for me on the H2O and the Glo HD. Attached Thumbnails Last edited by anacreon; 09-01-2016 at 04:12 AM.