[feelmaroon]

Decided to pick one up (Likebook Mars). Initial comments:

-Really big fan of the drag and drop fonts. Got about 30 now just sitting there (I recommend CourierPolski1941. Really feels like an old typewriter from the 40s. got it free off dafont.com...

-Nice on the free case.

-This really feels like a Paperwhite clone in 8" form factor which is great. Build quality. Impressed.

-Screenshots (I found that screenshot timer thing but does anyone know how to screenshot on this sucker?) Being there is no physical volume rocker, I can't do the usual Android screenshot method. What i've been doing is finding my favorite covers on the Kindle (jailbroken with screensaver feature), screenshotting them, dragging the file to the Likebook and they translate perfectly for the ones with white space, I just cropped that out). Not that big of a deal but would be cool to cut out the middle man and just screenshot on the Likebook and drag that into the Wallpaper so i can show the cover of the current book i'm reading).

-Really like two column reading in moonreader+ (been wanting this feature for years on e-ink and now I finally got it).
-Also really like the animated page turns. The octocore runs just fast enough to make this feature usable for me. Gimmicky, sure, but feels better on e-ink than ipad screens.

-Font weight (Boldness)and picture weight toggles. The former is awesome (further control than a Kindle 5 setting) and the latter, I imagine would be a big plus with people who read PDFs (which i don't).

-Inversion (using Moonreader): mixed bag. With heavy tinkering i can make it look pretty good but then I just prefer to reset the settings and it ends up better.

-The autopage turn in the native reader is really solid but it took me some time to actually time what the right speed is to have it autoturn (as a comparison, the autoscroll feature on moonreader works well using the "by pixel" setting. pretty streamline with no flashing

-One major flaw i've found while using moonreader is i can't seem to toggle between one column reading and two. it shuts down. then when i try to load that book up again it just kills the app.

-Bluetooth keyboard and gmail. Surprised how well I like it using the a2 feature. For you novelists who have always wanted to write longform on e-ink, you got your reader.
-Bluetooth mouse. Useless to use as a mouse (guessing you could possibly mess with the settings to make it work) but perfect if you want a clicker to change pages for you like having it by your hand in bed with the ereader on a stand above you (you can get a theme here of my laziness)

-battery life-had a few problems when it would just keep the microsd searching with me coming back to it and the battery being dead. remember have to treat it as android not a Kindle. with that in mind, it's pretty solid. ejected it while still keeping it in the machine worked well. the only reason why i wanted to put a microsd card was to have all of wikipedia offline (or the kiwix version at least) which leads to:

-Wikipedia offline. Put 35 gigs no pictures and it's pretty great because I have a long subway ride in nyc and sometimes just want to read random information instead of a novel or nonfiction book.I literally tried to stump it by typing in random crap and it always loaded.

-Pocket-works well but not as well as Kobo

-Black and white cbz comics. Very nice and just enough real estate for a comic.

If you put the Aura One (own one) in one of my hands and The Likebook Mars in the other and made me choose, I'd take the Mars 10 of 10 times. The bluetooth keyboard writing option is a game changer for me. Gives this reader a trick none of my other readers have.