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Count me as someone who liked the review and thought it was even handed.
I even read in bed with the reader held above me so the Aura One would definitely feel heavy. I even find a Kindle PW2 heavy to read that way and would prefer my Sony T3 if it wasn't for the frontlight of the Kindle.
One area I wish you had gone into more detail is the font rendering. I consider this very important for reader devices and have never understood why lots of Mobilereaders (and you) think this is an advantage for Kobo. When I read books that have embedded fonts, I find that the Kindle renders them too thin in lots of places so I have to use a large font size to make the publisher's font comfortable to read. But fonts that work well on Kindle usually look cleaner and better formed to me.
On Kobo, it is true that you can adjust the weight, but the letter forms also are often not that pleasing. For publisher fonts I found that often one or two letters in the alphabet would render thicker than the others so a page would be peppered with little dark spots. And Kobo's antialiasing seems to tend towards the dark as well; the opposite problem of the Kindle. So the insides of round letters like o or g tend to get a little squared off and delicate fonts tend to look greyed out rather than thin and elegant. Maybe this would look better with more dpi to work with; I don't know and I would have liked to find out.
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