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Originally Posted by FrustratedReader
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1) Holes in textured back pick up dirt
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They also make the Libra easier to grip, and honestly unless you’re living in a pigsty you’re not going to pick up that much dirt with the back. Though it’s certainly going to be noticeable if you picked the white one but that’s on the buyer not realizing white shows dirt more than black.
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2) No lock on orientation! It still flips 180 degrees if set to portrait or landscape making scanned PDFs nearly unusable as it's then too slow to change back! Idiotic when the GUI options are Auto, Portrait, Landscape. Should have more options or a Lock option.
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You mention this a second time in number 6 so I’m going to go into depth there.
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3) No disable of page change by touch screen. Idiotic when there are buttons.
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You can choose to have it as swipe only to go back or forward in a book. Which effectively disables touch as a swipe requires a not insignificant gesture relative to the screen size.
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4) Capacitive, not IR, so without light it's slightly greyer than Aura H2O (actually the same as Kindle PW3, or very similar).
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Sure but the Libra has a built in front light. You personally may not feel eink should have to use a light but they’ve provided the fix to this issue.
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5) Power button on the back. Stupid move simply to make front sleeker?
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Since the Libra is the Forma on a smaller scale I’m not sure where you’re coming from with this. The power button for the Forma is on the side of the button wedge and people complained that it allows for accidental presses. Though I’ve not experienced this with my Forma. I can’t recall any recent Kobo with the power button on the front. It’s moved around a few times in the last few models from top to back to side but as far as I recall in the last 5 or 6 models the front wasn’t used.
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6) Some PDFs are actually landscape, but need read in Portrait Mode, held in Landscape orientation. Thus the 180 flip software interferes with reading. There needs to be a complete LOCK on orientation.
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This sounds like an issue with the PDF formatting rather than the reader. However locking it in either landscape or portrait whichever is needed will allow you to hold it in the other orientation without a flip. This change is a 90 degree change. 180 would put the previous top of the device at the bottom and in your example of a total lock would have the PDF be upside down. If a PDF needs to be read upside down that again sounds like an issue with the source material rather than the device reading it.