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Originally Posted by zenji
Power button problem...
Just confirming something Josieb1 said: reviewers have also mentioned that the power button is:
- quite hard to turn on and off
- perhaps in an odd/uncomfortable position
Apart from that and the screen eveness-problem (which seems to only exist in some individual units), I haven't come across many other 'shortcomings'
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zenji, to pick up on some of your points:
- my local jbhifi has a forma on display (southern suburb, Sydney. I obviously can't speak for other jb stores)
- I bought the forma when it was first released, and have been very happy with it. I don't keep a lot of ebooks on it, and don't use it for audio books.
- if you want to listen to audio books, your phone or tablet may be the best (also you can use your tv as the speaker which I'm sure you're aware)
- my forma doesn't seem to have a lighting issue that others talk about, but, I use it outdoors a lot at zero device light and the background screen is pale ish, but not particularly grey, like the libra 2 is grey at zero light setting
- at night i use the yellow light and keep the lighting very low still anyway
- as to durability, my forma has travelled a lot, and gone through many many airport scanners (pre covid obviously), and I've never had an ounce of problems with it.
- as to the power button, it's very rare I use it because I have the kobo sleep cover which works perfectly, and I recommend you to also buy one of those
- I think the kobo book store has the forma on special at the moment, not 32gb as you want, I appreciate
- a major hassle with the kobo book store is that the ereader sales are not accepting visa or mastercard, only paypal. Kobo customer service reckons they don't know when whatever the unkown problem is will be fixed.
- booktopia is also selling the forma if you're interested (they charge $7.50 postage), and are in sydney (they partner with Kobo, but their web price is not on special, so ask for a price match)
I've just bought the libra 2 from booktopia, and even though it's only 7 inches and not the forma's 8 inches, the first thing I noticed was how small it was, yeah right! I wouldn't have thought an inch made that much difference, but it does. And the libra 2 is heavier than the forma. I can still get a lot of standard type on the libra 2 page, so it's not an issue now I'm used to it. Again, get a sleep cover.
I'd still recommend the forma even though it's 3 years old, although if you want a new device then the libra 2 would probably be the way to go (and you'll find lots of valuable info in that thread eg the clarity of the fonts are as good as the forma etc etc)
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and I just checked, my libra 2 is 32gb