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Originally Posted by MGlitch
I get the analogy, but it's a poor choice given that Kindle runs Android while Kobo runs Linux.
I'm not sure why the weight was compared to a smaller device, much less a smaller device put out within the same year. I'd expect the Oasis to weigh less than the One, if it wasn't I'd expect it to be in a review. As it is, it's a bit like saying 'black is darker than white, this should be held against black'.
'Bigger is not Better' - in which apparently there are a class of books lighter and less clunky than the Aura One? Maybe a children's chapter book, but I graduated from reading those some time ago. I'm currently reading a massive epic fantasy series. Any one of the books in that series weighs as much if not more than the One, but each is very clearly bulkier. Sorry, but for adults even mass market books are not going to be more portable than the One. Again even ignoring that we can have multiple books on the One, while a physical book is only ever going to be that single book.
Then we get to yet another Kindle plug, if I didn't know better I'd think Amazon had sponsored your blog (sidenote you may want to approach them about this, at least you have an understanding of the tech unlike the Good-E-Reader folks). The One is lighter than the only product on the market which compares to it in size, the H2O. Even though the One is an inch bigger in display space.
You seem like like comparing smaller devices weights to larger ones, yet oddly refrain from comparing the weight of the iPhone 6S to the One, I say oddly based on your opening salvo.
Waterproofing, I'll leave aside the personal opinion since you do mention it is popular and could have real world benefits, just not for you. It's -not- a unique feature to Kobo. Though they were the first by a good stretch of time to offer it, Barnes and Noble did add waterproofing in their latest eink device. I'll give you most of a pass here since B&N really aren't competing against Amazon in the US, which is the only Market B&N maintains a digital presence in.
Buying and renting- and here you really do sound like an Amazon shill given how Amazon has come under fire for fraudulent reviews, and generally garbage reviews. Perhaps you're just 'lucky' as you were with reading by the pool.
I'll skip the pocket stuff as I tend not to make much use of it.
Actually most of the rest of the 'review' is actually just a comparison between the One and various Kindles. So lets skip to the end where you appear to imply that Kobo is going to go away. They've been around the block a few times now, they keep putting out competitive devices. Rakuten 'just' plopped down a good amount of money on Overdrive.
This is the passage that seems to imply a doubtful future for Kobo, while being artful enough to dodge saying it right out.
Overall this doesn't so much read as a really long review of the Kobo Aura One, it reads as a really long comparison of the Kobo Aura One, the Kindle Paperwhite, Voyage, and Oasis.
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it won't surprise you that i tend to agree with some of the earlier posts on this thread it is a fair objective good review, if anything a little bit too generous towards the KA1 imho.
best wishes koboy
