In June I bought the Elipsa: I had been waiting ages for a decent reader for reading PDFs, and those epubs that do need the bigger real estate, and Elipsa was the answer. I was wowed with the Carta 1200 screen though I missed the 300 dpi. I didn't miss the natural light since I had been battling with Libra 1s because of their yellowish tint, and since Elipsa's screen wasn't too blue with low lighting. I was pleasantly surprised how I could read hours at home without my small very arthritic hands suffering.
Formerly I mostly read PDFs on the Forma, most of them unsatisfactorily - the landscape mode is not a good way to go, for most books. So after I bought the Elipsa, I gave my Forma to a friend who was thinking of buying one.
Then Kobo issued Libra 2 and Sage. I wanted the 8" and Carta 1200, hoped the screen wouldn't be yellowish and the weight would be acceptable, and bought the Sage. And it is almost perfect:
- the weight doesn't prevent me carting it in an outside pocket of my medium sized handbag, or holding it for hours at home
- the screen does have a small whiter band on the edge, but I completely forget it when not looking for it
- the buttons occasionally do not respond, but the screen always does
- the battery is poor, but since I also read on the Elipsa, and a few paper books (no e-version available), I never lack reading matter when the Sage is recharging
- but the screen color is beautiful, whether with no natural light or with a few steps up natural light
- the characters are the crisper I've ever seen, and make Elipsa's 227 dpi look fuzzy
- and for me 8" is the perfect size for many epubs and some PDFs which look strange on 10".
So I retired the Libra 1.