I really love my Forma. As I've said here before, the complaints about the Forma are all fair, though in my personal opinion the negative effect of some of them is heavily exaggerated. Unfortunately, as it sometimes happens with online reviews on message boards, a very small but vocal percent of the people complaining (read: not the majority!) are unreasonably petty and/or suffer from a bad case of OCD. For example, the seemingly unhinged person from
this reddit thread who I had the misfortune of dealing with today. An uninformed user looking to buy an eReader could get a rather warped perception of this device.
I personally think the Forma is a splendid device, yet I have most of the common issues minus the freezing. I'll also add that I
really dislike the mushy, poorly-located power button and the unintentional screen rotations (especially the occasional 180 on wakeup.) However, the combination of weight, shape, size and tactile buttons are gamechangers for me. These elements make up 90% of my experience of using this device, so they're the stuff I'm going to talk about. The fact of the matter is, since receiving my Forma the amount of time I spend reading has increased by quite a lot, despite already owning a small collection of eReaders.