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I have three in use (kindle basic white, kindle oasis 3 and kobo Libra) and various old ones I don’t know where in the house (DX, Kindle 2), as well as various paperwhites which belong to my kids, plus my husband has a PW4.
My preference is to read on a white E-reader, now that they have lighting, I am usually able to get the screen to be approximately the same color as the bezels, which gives a very pleasant page-like effect.
When I got the white kindle basic, I already had an Oasis 2. I bought the basic to have the white surround, but the low dpi annoyed me. What I really wanted was a 300 dpi E-reader with a white surround. When the Oasis 3 with the warm lighting came out, I bought this, even though it had a black surround. Little did I know Kobo were going to release the Libra a couple of months later! I felt frustrated, and ending up buying a decal to give me the pale surround, that worked for me for a while, then in March this year, I gave in and bought a white Libra. I really love it.
But I always feel guilty - whichever reader I am using, it is always on my mind that the other two are sitting idle, I feel that I have been far too extravagant. I console myself with the thought that this is the only type of tech I am addicted to buying, it could be a lot worse.
My favorite color is sage, kind of ironically, and if the kobo sage came in a white version, and the charging cover was useable as a standing cover, and came in sage green (like the standard standing cover), I would have bought it. It is quite annoying to me that the white E-reader seems to be perceived as a non-premium option, but that is how it is.
I am not planning on buying the new paperwhite or any of the new kobos. The change from Libra 1 to Libra 2 is too insignificant, and I don’t like the look of the new button placement.
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