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Originally Posted by pickyaxe
Frenzie, after reading your interesting take on reading PDFs on eInk (which I agree with, also reading plenty of PDFs myself) - if you don't mind, what is your opinion of the Aura One? Do you think it's an improvement over the H2O?
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I'm confident that for me it would be, although I should caveat that by saying that I've never seen it in person. What I remember from the specs (without double-checking) is that it's basically an H2O. It has the same specs in CPU and RAM in performance if not literally. (Incidentally, wasn't the Aura HD also already basically the same?) Obviously I'd like to see it somewhat faster, considering my old 2011 lower-end smartphone already was quite a bit faster than that 2014 device ffs, but since the screen only has a few more pixels performance shouldn't be noticably worse. It also weighs the same (233 g vs. 230 g).
The differences consist of a slightly bigger screen, a slightly higher PPI, and no a µSD slot. I consider the screen size and to a lesser extent DPI the most important shortcomings and highly welcome improvements. However, the differences are too small to justify the price of upgrading. I guess I could consider selling off my H2O.
I've really only ever put in a µSD for testing. Having a few dozen books at once (including some that are pretty big) is plenty for me and anything more would just give me the convenience of never having to delete anything.
PS I suppose there's one thing I'd need to see it in person for: to make sure the frontlight can also go as low in brightness as the H2O. I normally don't use it at all, but in the rare case I do I put it at 1 or close to it. I might appreciate a warmer light temperature but really frontlight doesn't matter to me at all as I don't use it.
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Originally Posted by emacsomancer
(I don't get the recommendations for non-eink tablets [I've just had one on my 'welcome thread' too; now closed, so I can't reply.
I've spent the last four years trying to use a non-eink tablet for pdf consumption and it's not a pleasant experience for me at all, and so I just don't end up using it.) |
That's something everyone can make out for themselves.
I sometimes read comics on my phone and on my laptop, where I appreciate my laptop's ability (ASUS Zenbook UX305C) to put the backlight really, really low. It's as good or better than the laptop I had back in '04 whereas everything since has only been able to go way too bright as a minimum. Anyway, provided minimum brightness isn't way too bright and PPI isn't horribly insufficient I think screens that shine at you can be reasonable. A larger version of my phone (5.5", ~300 PPI) would be an acceptable comic and newsfeed reading experience for me.