Kobo Aura One review

[frostschutz]

Not sure why everyone is worried about the battery. It's plenty. The new Kindle has what, 250mAh, and it doesn't die right away when removing it from the battery-pack-case.

[meeera]

Originally Posted by anacreon

Just another stupid review :

http://techcresendo.com/2016/08/19/k...e-full-review/ :

That's not a review, it's a specs rundown. I can't see any evidence that the writer has held a device in their hands.

[cane]

Originally Posted by filmo

I have 2 readers with 6 inch screen that I still really like but my 5 inch screen Kobo Mini is always with me for that reason getting used more.

I use my Kobo Mini all the time too just drop it in my pocket ready to read any where

[JSWolf]

One thing that's really impressive about the Aura One is that it is too big to fit in most pockets which is a very good feature.

[davidfor]

The biggest problem I can see with the Aura One is that I won't be able to put it in my jacket pocket while I walk from the train to the bus during my commute.

[oren64]

One more thing good about the Aura One, is big enough to use as an umbrella if you don't want your hair to get wet when it rain.

[GeoffR]

Originally Posted by Lemons

I rely don't understand the one month being 'Long battery' as that's just a few hours more than a tablet has (15 hours or so) unless that is on max brightness with Wifi it sounds pretty short esp if you go on trips for a week without any power source.

One month at half an hour per day is not the same as 15 hours continuous reading time.

My old Glo was originally advertised as having one month battery life, but even though it is almost four years old I still get about 40 hours reading per charge over the course of a week or so.

[cerem0ny]

Originally Posted by oren64

One more thing good about the Aura One, is big enough to use as an umbrella if you don't want your hair to get wet when it rain.

My thoughts exactly! It can also double as a clothes drying rack. Show me a kindle that does THAT!

[ryuji35]

I just bought a Kindle Paperwhite as my Voyage got stolen... now I am deliberating to get this one. I still have my old Glo and made me remember how great Kobo fonts are.

Ugh, my greediness :'(

[GeoffR]

Looking at the pic's in Nate the great's post it seems like books borrowed through OverDrive from the device might be KePubs synced from Kobo's cloud, rather than ePubs fulfilled from Adobe's cloud like on the Sony devices?

Edit: And if that is the case, it seems a lot like the way Amazon does public library borrowing in the US, and so raises all those problematic legal and ethical issues about a private company using data of public library borrowers' reading records to try to sell them books.

Although the case might be a bit different for Kobo since unlike Kindle it would presumably still be possible, for those who object to that, to borrow in the existing way by downloading the ePub via ADE.

[bazzz]

The Aura One seems to be (specs wise) the perfect device for me. I had a Paperwhite 1 before (basically never used it), a PocketBook Inkpad (screen was a desaster, returned it) and a Kobo Aura HD (screen was to small for my purposes).

I'm reading PDFs, nearly 100% software development stuff.

I haven't used a Kobo device for two years now: has the PDF viewer improved on current Kobo devices? Margin-cropping, zoom-level (that should not reset after every page turn). Can you full-screen PDFs? Two years ago you always had a footer showing "Page x of y", which could not be hidden.

Thank you!

[Ken Maltby]

Originally Posted by bazzz

The Aura One seems to be (specs wise) the perfect device for me. I had a Paperwhite 1 before (basically never used it), a PocketBook Inkpad (screen was a desaster, returned it) and a Kobo Aura HD (screen was to small for my purposes).

I'm reading PDFs, nearly 100% software development stuff.

I haven't used a Kobo device for two years now: has the PDF viewer improved on current Kobo devices? Margin-cropping, zoom-level (that should not reset after every page turn). Can you full-screen PDFs? Two years ago you always had a footer showing "Page x of y", which could not be hidden.

Thank you!

The larger screen on the new device should have the most positive impact, that along with a high resolution. It is not too bad reading most PDF documents on my AuraHD using KOReader.

Luck;
Ken

[bazzz]

Originally Posted by Ken Maltby

The larger screen on the new device should have the most positive impact, that along with a high resolution. It is not too bad reading most PDF documents on my AuraHD using KOReader.

Luck;
Ken

What about the stock Kobo PDF Viewer?

[GeoffR]

Originally Posted by bazzz

Two years ago you always had a footer showing "Page x of y", which could not be hidden.

I don't read PDFs normally so I can't tell you what else has changed, but I know the unofficial full-screen mode that people use for ePub and KePub also works for PDF, so you don't need to have the progress indicator taking up screen space if you don't want it.

Edit: I just tested a PDF, one with very wide margins, and found that turning the page doesn't change the zoom level, but does reset the pan position. However there is a firmware patch named `Preserve PDF pan position across page turns` that does what its name suggests, and with that patch applied I can zoom in to crop out the PDF's wide margins and thereafter turn pages without the viewport position changing at all.

[Erich Zann]

Originally Posted by Lemons

I rely don't understand the one month being 'Long battery' as that's just a few hours more than a tablet has (15 hours or so) unless that is on max brightness with Wifi it sounds pretty short esp if you go on trips for a week without any power source.

I invite you to take a look to my battery test (Kobo H2O). A “2-months” battery life gave me 77 hours of reading when reading more than 6 hours a day. It's more than twice the theoretical 30 hours of the 60days×0.5hours formula. And far more than any LCD tablet.
In other word, if you read a lot, a "one-month" battery eReader should probably reach 30 to 40 hours of reading (depending on light settings of course, see my stats). It's far more than the best tablet outthere.