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Originally Posted by BlauMond
Thanks for the additional info, Kobos seem quite perfect for what I am looking for 
I was looking into the Glo HD, Libra H2O and Clara HD since all three have the SD card, so perhaps you could help me with making a choice, since you own the Glo HD and the Libra H2O.
I don't really care for waterproofing and I don't mind removing the glue all that much (I managed to do it on the curved glass back of a galaxy S8, so I think I'll be okay), so for me the comparison is about screen size, features/hackability and battery. Do you find the step up in screen size to the Libra worth some extra money? In regards to battery, all three seem to be 1500mAh, so that doesn't matter. And are there any significant differences in features/hackability?
I looked at the PostmarketOS device pages for the Glo, Aura and Clara HD (the only ereaders that are even listed at all) and it seems that a lot of work is being done on the Clara HD (makes sense with it being newer). Especially interesting to me, I saw these remarks on the page for the Aura:
"The lowest working kernel for postmarketOS is 3.x, while the kobo-aura uses a fork of 2.6." and "Newer kobo devices run 4.1.15 with a device tree."
Do you by any chance know what the Aura H2O and Glo HD are based on, and whether they have better chances of working with a newer full-blown linux distribution like PostmarketOS at some point? Or would it perhaps make more sense for me to get the Clara HD as it will likely be supported significantly faster, or better?
Thank you again for your input! |
Hi,
My Glo HD's kernel is version is 3.0.35. This though has not prevented me from also installing Alpine Linux on it and running Xorg, which perfectly worked.
I don't know for the Aura H2O, but my Libra's kernel version is 4.1, as you knew.
I strongly recommend you buy a Kobo Clara HD if you like this form-factor instead of the Glo HD, for the following reasons:
1. Battery could be dead/end-of-life in the Glo HD; even if you buy new old-stock, it will have aged;
2. You'll surely get a higher kernel version than the one in the Glo HD. Check here:
https://github.com/kobolabs/Kobo-Reader and go in the hw/ folder, and all the devices with their kernels will be listed. Just download what you want, unzip the tarball and read the README file, it will probably give you some information.
3. You'll get a guarantee. If something (really) bad happens, there's a chance you could return it at no cost.
I sacrificed the internal SD card for a bigger screen. All depends of what matters most for you. I don't regret that much this decision though, because I still have a (half-broken, yes, but working) Glo HD to test more bootloader/SD related things.