[WillW]

After some years with my Kindle Paper White 2, I’m trying out the Kobo Clara HD. My first impressions aren’t all good, and there is much to miss about the Kindle - in particular the “GO TO” button, which takes you any page or chapter of your choice, or to the beginning or end of the book. Also the BACK button, returning you to where you were after referencing some other part of the book, or the menu. I also prefer the page number & percentage taking so little space at the bottom of the page. Also the fact that it just works, the screen is evenly lit, and it's generally quicker.

What I really like about the Clara is the adjustable warm light, except when set to auto, when it goes haywire, altering the shade at random. There is also some unevenness, with brighter edges on both sides on the lower half of the screen. Not too serious, but kind of aggravating. The firmware does seem quite glitchy. Occasionally a page turn will suddenly expand the font to enormous size! The justification just doesn’t work at all.
It’s also pretty slow, not the page turns, but most other operations in the settings.

I’ll use it for reading over the weekend, and see if can love it enough to overlook its faults. My current thinking is probably not. But having tried it, I’d now really like a reader with the same kind of screen lighting (without the brighter edges). I don’t really want to go the route of the up-coming new Kindle Oasis, and am wondering abut the Aura H20. I like the idea of the slightly larger screen, but does the Aura have the same firmware as the Clara? Or the same screen light issues? That could be the deal breaker.

I really want to like Kobo, but Kobo needs to up its game just a little bit. I’m a bit picky, true, but is expecting an expensive thing to work properly unreasonable?

How is the latest Aura H20? Better? Or different reader with same behaviour?