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The Kobo Mini. I was hoping for a reader even smaller than my beloved PRS-350 since it had no buttons; however, its bulbous bezels and oversized puffy OEM cover made it much less sleek. I maxed out the 2 GB storage with fewer than 100 kepubs when I tried downloading directly, and the reading area given large margins which couldn’t be adjusted given the firmware of the time (and I was unaware of the fullscreen hack or it didn’t exist yet) was minuscule. The 350 had a crop feature.
Yet ten years later…
It’s still in use, virtually on a daily basis in the summertime especially. The clunky bezels and puffy cover give it a lot of protection when it’s tossed in my beach bag, later firmware solved the margin issue and it’s loaded with light reading which doesn’t challenge storage limitations. The murky resolution doesn’t matter when reading outdoors and an additional benefit is really amazing battery life for a ten-year old device. The irony is that I originally made it my waterside reader because I figured it wouldn’t break my heart if something happened to it and now I’d miss it.
I’m in the camp that would love to see a more current 5” reader; it wouldn’t even need a frontlight as far as I’m concerned, just a somewhat better resolution.
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