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I'm not sure why anyone would want to read with the ereader set to "candlelit" -- my KA1 is one of the ones that goes to the very reddish candlelit look and I abhor it. The Tolino epos I have goes to more of an yellowish incandescent lighting look which is warmer than I really prefer.
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I don't mind a variance in the color if the entire screen is the same color. I for one would prefer my Glowlight 3's amber color to red. I don't have any valid reason for that though. Either way they are cutting blue light.
When it comes down to it, I'm not entirely sold on the color changing screens. I would use it, but wouldn't buy a reader just for it.
With the Aura ONE my gripe is that it is their top of the line model and this defect has persisted for a year and appears to be continuing on their even more expensive Limited Edition model. It just doesn't make them look good to me.
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As an aside, we were visiting in Bellingham this weekend and I got to see two Nook Glowlight 3's belonging to the cousin's kids (well, cousin to my wife's standards of what constitutes a cousin). The colour of the screens was quite different between the two of them when the lighting was set to the warm end. We updated one to the latest beta which made the owner very happy since she is into manga. Her brother was more "What's sideloading?" and "Why would I want to do that?" so left his alone (little snot kept calling me "revered husband of third cousin twice removed"--he has yet to learn not apply sarcasm with a trowel). Looking at the screen made me wonder--again--why Kobo discontinued the Glo HD.
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General consensus on the Kobo board was that the Glo HD just wasn't profitable enough to continue. There didn't seem to be any other valid reason to replace it with the less than impressive Aura Edition 2.
So far, my impression of the Glowlight 3 matches my feelings towards Nook in general. Very nice hardware. But I wish I could put some Kobo firmware on it.