[mbrisco]

Got myself identical KOReader installations running on the two current most-recommended e-readers: Kobo Libra 2 and Kindle Paperwhite 5. I'm thinking of doing a full comparison later this week. Trying to decide between them myself to see which one I should keep.

Some initial impressions:

* Instinctively, I like the Libra 2 more because the white color and shape and design are a lot nicer than the Paperwhite's boring black design with the chin.
* The Paperwhite has MUCH better battery life on KOReader than the Libra 2, and also has that cool, special-hardware-integrated page-turn animation, which I ended up liking a lot.
* The Libra 2 has more unstable kernel (apparently a hopeless situation), from what I hear, so the entire device occasionally crashes and reboots, especially when adjusting frontlight settings and sometimes just randomly. The Paperwhite also has some idiosyncratic bugs on KOReader that I noticed, but no crashes yet.
* The Libra 2 screen is a lot nicer than the Paperwhite's. Blacks are more black on the Libra 2 as opposed to more grayish on the Paperwhite. The Libra 2 screen itself is larger than the Paperwhite's (those 0.2" between 6.8" and 7" seem to make a huge difference somehow).
* There is an upgradable (to 256GB) SD card in the Libra 2 but not the Paperwhite.