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Originally Posted by romanlryji
- an awful brown screen when the backlight turned off though Kindle DX is white (not to mention Kindle Voyage);
- an extremely-low-contrast screen without any sign of black though every Kindle even the oldest one has it. But Kobo has only mid-brown. Moreover, the brighter the backlight, the lower the screen contrast;
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Interesting claim. Oddly, a Macbeth densitometer does not agree with you as to either the background or lack of blacks. Considering that eInk makes the screens for both Amazon and Kobo, your claim is just a touch hard to believe.
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Originally Posted by romanlryji
- a fuzzy glowing surface that disperses both its backlight and ambient so your eyes start tearing in a couple of minutes though it is comfortable to read from Kindle Voyage for hours (not to mention Kindle DX);
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Another interesting claim. Having compared both Kindle and Kobo ereaders, there are issues with both but overall, the devices I've seen seem to indicate that Kobo screens tend to have slightly better illumination quality. As for the Kindle DX with it's antique screen technology and low DPI? Comparing it's 150DPI to the Aura One's 300 DPI? Comparing it's 10:1 contrast ratio to the Aura One's 15:1 contrast ratio? Compare the Kindle DX's frontlight -- ooops, can't do that since it doesn't have that capability. As for the Voyage? I seem to remember comments like "I went through 4 units and settled for the one with the best screen".
BTW, you do realize that eInk displays are frontlit not backlit?
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Originally Posted by romanlryji
- a terrible touchscreen that fires when it wants itself to and where it wants itself to;
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I prefer the IR touch screen devices but overall, the Aura and Aura One capacitive touch screens work well for me.
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Originally Posted by romanlryji
- a weak battery that is barely enough for twenty hours though Kindle Voyage with the same run mode works for a week.
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This I have to agree with you to an extent. I find my Aura One gives me slightly better than the 30 hours advertised from full charge to the 10% "charge your ereader now" popup with WiFi on and frontlight at 19%. Assuming I read 4 hours per day, this gives me over a full week of reading. If your Kindle Voyage is only giving you a week with a smaller screen, perhaps you should consider an different ereader given the number of complaints a while back that the Voyage was not giving it's rated 21 hours of reading time especially if you had the frontlight over 10 and WiFi on.
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Originally Posted by romanlryji
So I have a new word in my personal vocabulary. Now "Kobo" means "never". And when anybody asks me whether I go to Zambia, I say "Kobo".
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In the meantime, while you continue to dream of a Kindle DX with a Carta screen, pull one of the other ones -- it's got bells... Really! It does!