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Originally Posted by haydnfan
I don't buy this argument. The Forma is almost the same device as the Aura One. In fact they have more in common with each other than the PW4 has in common with the PW3. And both companies have been producing front-lit readers for many years now. This is not new technology.
And it doesn't matter if it is easy or hard to accomplish. It is the company's responsibility to make it work. The customer has no ethical obligation to be lenient if the company fails to deliver.
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not quite
The paperwhites are both 6" screens, both carta, both using relatively the same physical footprint, etc. The added features to the new paperwhite are waterproofing (doesn't change much with the way it's done), audiobook support (old paperwhite already had text to speech so the speakers were there), and the screen is capacitive instead of infrared (which is hardly a new technology even for Amazon).
The Kobo Forma is a larger screen, rather different physical layout as well as internally.
So the things that could actually cause issues aren't there in the Paperwhite, because Amazon hasn't changed them. While Kobo has changed things with the Forma.
And there's nothing for you to 'buy' here, the specs are there for anyone to see in black and white.