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Kobo does so many things better, though. For instance, the cover as screen ‘saver': on the kindle oasis this is usually upside down for me - I am left-handed. Seems somewhat amateurish/lazy on amazon's side. On the Libra, it always displays correctly, no matter which way up I leave it. EDIT: I checked this again, and it works perfectly! But I noticed that the rotation function is a little sluggish, maybe it was something to do with that? Anyway, this was my mistake.

The page numbers are displayed (optionally) in the correct place (for me, anyway), in the middle bottom. The kindle page numbers are skewed off to the left, which I personally don't like, although, now I think of it, I suppose many books actually are like this.
There are so many things that are much much better on Kobo, such as automatic sorting by author, margin options, font options, etc.

In an ideal world, my ereader would marry the best functions of both kobo and kindle.

In this world, however, I am compromising on these nice to haves to use the kindle. I have been reading a book in Spanish, and it has been bliss using the vocabulary flash cards along with the translation function. It’s really impressive, and super helpful when I get stuck at a tough passage.

Which reminds me - battery life - another compromise I am making, given that the Libra H2O's battery life is excellent, and the Oasis's is poor. I have finally managed to accept that this reader will always need to be charged every other day - however, I have managed to get three days out of it lately, maybe due to a firmware update?

And, talking of the Nook, I have been tempted by that in the past, particularly as I have a B and N practically on my doorstep, but reading about all the side loading issues on here, as well as having NO FONT OPTIONS have made this a big fat no for me. So at least that was an easy decision to make.

I definitely see myself having a Kobo in future, and if the Libra 2 had had a faster processor, I might have bought it. I was very tempted by the improved screen.

ETA: I thought of something else - I love the pinch to change font size on the kindle, and the swipe/slide to adjust brightness on the Kobo. I don’t love going into the menu to change brightness and warmth on the kindle and font size on the kobo. I am constantly adjusting the light and warmth on my readers.

Please, ereader companies, please make a reader that has both pinch to change font size AND swipe/slide to change brightness, plus add the KO Reader option to adjust warmth by swiping/sliding the right hand side of the screen.

OK, that has reminded me of another reason I wanted to stick to my Oasis - I can read it with no front light on at all during the day. The background color is a much much lighter gray than the Libra. This is probably how I have managed to get the battery lasting a little longer, not (just) a firmware update.