[Dino84]

My experience with e-readers is that they are bloated with too many features.

This is not really an issue in itself, but it makes the UI so intricate. Whenever you touch the screen by mistake you will trigger something like zooming, marking a word, bringing up a menu, turn page etc... This makes them very delicate to handle, which I find tiring. Both physcially by holding the device restricted to the often narrow trim on the side, and also as a nagging feeling in the back of my head that I have to be careful when handling the device; If anything touches the screen it is very likely to mess up my reading session in one way or another.

Sometimes once and again I pick up a regular book and I am delighted to find how relaxing it is not having to worry about touching the 'screen' by mistake.


The one feature that really sets the Kobo Aura One above regular books howerver, is the natural light feature. Thats hard to get with regular books. I mean, annotations and whatnot I can always write on the side, but controlling the room lighting is not always an option.