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Kobo Sage Problems:
1. Touches are not registered properly. I touch the "Battery" icon, but the "More" menu opens. While reading a book, I touch the top of the page to bring up the "Back to My Books" option in the top left, when I select it, I go to the "More" menu instead.
2. Advanced Notebook writing is still awful. Paragraphs and whole sentences disappear when I write quickly. Now, this also causes the Advanced menu options at the top left to disappear temporarily and lots of ghosting.
3. Extreme ghosting when reading a book and using the Highlight or Search or Dictionary Look-up functions. Multiple lines look darkened/selected until I force a page refresh.
4. Battery life not improved from previous version; possibly worse.
Brightness at 37%: Advanced Notebook writing for 2 minutes: lost 4% battery.
Brightness at 37%: Reading manga and then ebook for 6 minutes: lost 1% battery.
5. System navigation and page turns are still slower than Kindle Paperwhite 11th gen and Nook GL4. I have almost 1000 books on the Nook GL4 and it snaps through them quite quickly. I have about 600 on the PW. The Kobo Sage only has about 250 and I wouldn't want to add anymore. No scroll bar when there are multiple pages in my Collections is also a poor design choice in my opinion.
6. Graphic novel page turns still take 1 second+ to register, either by button or finger tap. It sounds very petty, but it's noticeable when you compare to 11th gen PW or GL4, which feel like less than 0.33 second to turn. Even the Nook GLP 2015 has faster manga page turns than the Kobo Sage; yes, the screen is only 6 inches, but processor is older gen, right? Something is not optimized in the Kobo Sage.

I just give up. I await the 8-inch Kindle that Amazon will undoubtedly release in a year or two.