I’m one of those people that likes to buy whatever latest and greatest ereader comes along, but I generally prefer Kobos. I currently do most of my reading at home, and almost invariably on a Kobo Forma, so I was naturally interested in the new Kobo Sage but, for me, I think it would be one step forward and two steps back so I’ve decided to order the new Paperwhite Signature Edition as this year’s shiny new object.
I don’t expect it to replace my Formas in any way but it looks interesting and it will be relatively inexpensive, given that I can do a trade-in with a last-generation Paperwhite. I don’t know exactly in what order the discounts and credit are applied but if I get the maximum thirty dollar trade-in value, plus the twenty percent discount plus the five percent on my Amazon Visa it shouldn’t be too much over a hundred dollars (not counting however many cases I decide I need
).
When I bought my last Paperwhite I loaded all of my books onto it, thinking it would provide additional backup, make it possible to travel with any book I might possibly want to read, and let me do global searches on my whole library. As it turned out, the Paperwhite was totally incapable of doing a global search on several thousand books without crashing, so I’m really curious to see if the increase in processing power makes a difference.