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Originally Posted by lightbulbjim
Picked up mine from JB HiFi just over a week ago when I was in Sydney (nobody sells Kobo stuff where I live). I would have happily bought it online but I wanted to be able to easily return it if it was flaky.
I must say, JB really aren't trying to sell the things. The display models were tucked away out of site. They consisted of a broken Aura One, an Aura Edition 2 stuck on the registration screen and a working first generation H2O with a price tag/information sheet that said it was an Edition 2  . This was in the Pitt St store in the CBD. |
The JB HiFi tend to be a bit of a mixture with their displays. The one near where I work, had a good display of the three current ereaders the last time I was in (and walked out with an Aura ONE). The one near home, had just the original Aura H2O on display when I was there on the weekend. That's a change from last year when they had none on display. They did have a rack with the boxes and covers, but that has mainly been taken over by Kindles. Happily, they don't have a Kindle on display.
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Anyway, they had the new H2O in stock, I bought one, and I'm happy with it. I'm coming from a Kindle 3 (Keyboard) so I guess I'm easy to please  . Actually I was quite happy with the Kindle, I just wanted a reader with a light for night reading.
The larger screen and font options on the H2O have spoilt me now and I could never go back. It took me a while to figure out the Calibre dance (all my books are sideloaded) to get the page layout just right but it looks good now.
No real-world battery numbers yet, but extrapolating from what I've seen I think I'll get at least two weeks. That's similar to my six-year-old Kindle, so good enough for me.
I even like the touch screen, which I expected to be annoying after using real page turn buttons for so long  .
The only things I think the Kindle did better are:
- In-book search. It's very slow on the Kobo. It seems to be scanning the text each time rather than using an index.
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No, Kobo's don't index the book contents, so it is scanning the text for each search.
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- Dictionaries. The dictionary is just another book on the Kindle, so while you're viewing a definition it's easy to highlight a word within the definition and get a definition for that word. There is no limit to the rabbit hole  .
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You can do a lookup of the words on the popup. This opens the search dialog in dictionary mode on that word. After that, you can't select the word but can type in any word in the search field.
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I guess these may have changed on modern Kindles anyway.
H2O mk2 gets a  from me.
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Good that you like it.