Quote:
Originally Posted by hap124
When researching the Aura One I see two complaints that jump out at me:
1. It's slow. Relative to Kindles that is. I occasionally see someone say theirs isn't slow but the majority of comments seem to note speed. Has this ever been compared in a controlled way? Any other input?
2. The glare. I have never had a glass front E-Reader and always read with a lamp fairly directly lighting my device to really bring out the contrast. (LED lighting bothers me so no plan to use frontlight) How is the glare compared to the bare matte plastic screens?
Anything else to consider?
|
I have an Aura One, an Oasis 2, a Voyage and a dead PW3 that I used for years. Personally, I've never seen a difference in speed or glare between any of them.
What I *do* see is a major difference in handling sideloaded books, especially in indexing them. With the Aura One, I can easily set up collections in Calibre and those collections get automatically transferred to the Kobo. With my Kindles, I can't do that. I *used* to be able to do that -- years ago -- then Amazon took that ability away.
Indexing is the biggest thing, though, and Amazon still hasn't fixed the bugs which have existed since the beginning. Kindle *frequently* chokes on indexing and many books never do get indexed; wasting battery life and causing havoc. The only fix for this is to turn off that feature through an unintuitive hack.
Indexing in Kobo has never been a problem for me.