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Having used the Leaf 2 for reading for another day here are some further thoughts:
- It's very light - considerably lighter than the Libra 2. Easy to hold in one hand. This is not something I care a lot about. I have the Hisense A9 for whenever I need something mobile. And I sync my reading progress between all my devices (except the Kindles and the Libra 2). The materials feel good.
- The colour looks great, especially the interplay between the inner gray and the outer white frames. But I'm not using my e-readers as interior decoration or art, and would've preferred it to be all gray in the same colour as the screen background. Now the outer white edges get a bit too bright and distracting at times.
- The screen is one of the sharpest I've seen and an utter joy to read on. Considerably sharper than the Libra 2, which surprised me. Maybe the water proofing on the Libra 2 adds another slightly obfuscating layer?
- The page turn buttons work great when pressed, but they are flimsy and slightly unstable. They move when I rest my finger on them. Makes me wonder how they'll hold up in the long term. In contrast the home button on my Nova 3 is very nice and rigid.
- For some reason Koreader insists on using the upper button as a Next page button, whereas the other apps have this reversed. Confusing. I haven't found where to change this behaviour yet.
I have also just bought an SD card, which I will install and use for comics/manga. Hopefully the smaller screen will still work for that.
Now I just hope that Onyx will release a 300 PPI 10 inch version of this. With a sunken screen, SD card slot and page turn buttons.
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