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After reading with the Forma for a couple days I'm overall very impressed with it. It's very comfortable to hold with one hand because most of the weight is on the button side so when reading in portrait mode it balances on your pinky and doesn't tilt. It's not comfortable to hold with a single hand in landscape mode because it does tilt on you but it's very comfortable to hold with two hands that way. The back grip is good and doesn't slip when wet (I was reading in the hot tub when it was 1C last night so cold/wet wasn't a problem with grip). The screen lighting is very even without bleeding. In portrait mode the width of the reader is the same as a hard cover book and I compared the default text width (no patches) with a hard cover book and it was the same width. I compared a second hard cover and the text in that book was slightly wider but still would have fit within the text area of the reader if the margins were adjusted. The reader is only about 3/4 the height of the hard cover book so length wise it doesn't match. Having a featherlight reader with the same text width of a hard cover is amazing and I'm sure it's not an accident in design. The screen clarity is very good. Side by side comparison with the H2O I would say they are equivalent. I would say the screen crispness is better on my Aura One but it's a very slight edge.
I've mainly been using the buttons for page advance and they've been solid. No clicks without page advance and no double page advance. Out of habit I found myself swiping to advance and i never experienced a false swipe either. Hoping it stays that way (knock on wood).
It wouldn't be a Kobo without a few bugs though. The worst I experienced is last night I had the settings set to show progress as pages per chapter. I noticed it changed on it's own to % per chapter and I left it alone. A couple pages later I noticed it had changed to minutes remaining in the chapter. A couple pages later the pages started going backwards on its own. It went back to around where I was where the change started. I put it to sleep, started it again, changed the settings back and it's been fine since. I'm not sure if this is a know firmware bug, I had a stable firmware on my other Kobos and haven't been upgrading.
A second minor bug was with it coming out of sleep mode on it's own. I didn't purchase the sleep cover but when I pressed the button to put it to sleep I would set it down and a couple minutes later it came out of sleep on its own. I disabled the sleep cover setting and haven't had the problem since.
The other minor bug is with the auto orientation. I've picked up the reader and held it in the same orientation where I put it to sleep and when I press the button to bring it out of sleep it starts upside down. I plugged the USB cable into it once when it was in portrait mode and the screen half changed to landscape mode, the orientation was still correct but it was about a third of the way down the screen and then wrapped around. The touch screen didn't align with the button location so I wasn't able to click on the dialog asking if I wanted to connect. I just changed the orientation back and forth and it corrected itself so it's just a minor annoyance. You can lock the orientation into landscape or either portrait modes so if it bothers you there is a work around. It will lock in either left or right hand portrait mode depending on the orientation you have it in when you lock it. I like the auto orientation though because you can just flip it to move from one hand to the other and the buttons change with the orientation.
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