Thread: Aura ONE Kindle Voyage user has a new Kobo Aura One Limited Edition
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Old 07-15-2019, 12:46 AM   #2
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Join Date: Aug 2010
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Originally Posted by TheMadBrewer View Post
I've had a Voyage since they first came out (actually on my 3rd physical one -- 1st was stolen, 2nd died while under warranty and was replaced). I've been happy with it but the battery seems to be going -- it doesn't hold a charge the way it used to. I need to charge it weekly were as before it lasted much longer. Also a couple of times recently I had to factory reset it reload all my books. It was not finding books I new were there (and Calibre could see). From my research it was probably a corrupted book that was crashing the indexing task.

My brother bought an Oasis, didn't like it and let me borrow it and I didn't like it either.

So I bought a Kobo Aura One Limited Edition and it arrived last week. I should mention that for the past 5 years or so my books have mostly come from non Amazon sources (Story Bundles, Phoenix, Baen, etc.) so I am not as stuck with the Kindle ecosystem as some. I do have a bunch of Amazon books and the Voyage (or my iPhone or iPad) will work fine when I want to re-read any of those.

So so far I am loving the Kobo. I miss the haptic press areas on the Voyage and the Kobo is a bit heavier but oh the screen I set up the collections/shelves the way described here and suddenly my books are all organized the way I want them. I probably will put most of my library on the Kobo -- not just because there is room but I can now find books easily.

I signed in to overdrive with my local library card and borrowed a book just because I could -- sorry if you were waiting for that one (It's now #2 on my todo list so I will get to it). I pretty much only checked out books with the Overdrive app on my phone(s).

The different UI is taking a bit to get used to but that is just a matter of time. Things are also much more responsive than the Voyage .

Now it very new (and an upgrade w.r.t. processor, et) so it is not surprising that I like it. Who knows, a few months from now I may be one of those bitching about the firmware, light leaks, poor response but for now I love it.


You'll probably continue to love it. I've owned the Voyage, have the Oasis 2, but my go to reader is the Kobo Aura ONE. You'll get used to the Kobo interface, I prefer it, as I hate having to make 2 taps to bookmark something or go into settings to change lighting on my Kindle.

Illustrated books look great on this device, I might add! I think Kindle Previewer tends to over compress JPEGs, because when I make books, the epub illustrations are always much crisper on the Kobo.


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