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Old 04-18-2015, 09:30 PM   #526
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They're going to sit on them till May 1st? That's weird.

Sounds like the one already shipped from staples was a mistake.
Sometimes weird things happen. I think it was the Glo that Chapters actually started selling it in store a day or two before the "official" date. I went to my local Coles (part of the Chapters chain) and they told me not so politely that it wasn't available until day X. So I ended up driving 45 minutes to my closest Chapters and bought it there. I was reeeeaaaaallllllyyyy tempted to take it into the Coles and flaunt it in front of them, but I didn't .
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Old 04-18-2015, 09:51 PM   #527
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Kobo planned this really well. All the stores that will sell Kobo Glo HD also have stock of Aura's... so they have a vested interest in selling as many of those as possible before the general populace realizes they are obsolete., (or at least, now worth much less than $129)
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Yep I'm pretty sure it was a mistake that it was shipped out to me but I'm not complaining.

FYI anyone thinking of buying this(in Canada) might want to order from Staples anyway because they have a promotion right now with Visa Checkout. If your order is over $100 and you pay with Visa Checkout, you save $20 off your order. That's why I ordered with them in the first place.

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Old 04-19-2015, 01:19 AM   #529
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Woah discount! I would order from Staples but my IP address is denied from accessing the website for some reason.
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Kobo planned this really well. All the stores that will sell Kobo Glo HD also have stock of Aura's... so they have a vested interest in selling as many of those as possible before the general populace realizes they are obsolete., (or at least, now worth much less than $129)
Bol.com had an price action on the Aura until 15th of april, selling it for 99 euro's but now raised the aura to 119,- euro's.. any questions about the Glo HD are deleted from the platform,so I think this dealer just hope that no one knows about the Glo HD and try to sell as many as possible before they really go on sale.
They delayed the official release day for the Netherlands till june 1st, so the extra money for holidays that comes in may will be spend to the Aura, and then / christal ball modus on: they kick in for fathersday with the new Glo HD.. I think a lot of buyers now will feel not to good about it when it suddenly pops up.
Even my questions about the Glo HD on their Facebook page are deleted.
Normally they have a pre-order like they had with my prs-t3 of Sony for more then 6 weeks, now they have none.
So they try to sell the old ones,for the best possible price (for them,not for the buyer..)
There was a info page on the Dutch Kobo page telling all about the "personal assistant" but the Google cache doesn't show it anymore and the page now shows a 404 https://nl.kobo.com/koboglohd

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Old 04-19-2015, 08:40 AM   #531
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Bol.com had an price action on the Aura until 15th of april, selling it for 99 euro's but now raised the aura to 119,- euro's.. any questions about the Glo HD are deleted from the platform,so I think this dealer just hope that no one knows about the Glo HD and try to sell as many as possible before they really go on sale.
They delayed the official release day for the Netherlands till june 1st, so the extra money for holidays that comes in may will be spend to the Aura, and then / christal ball modus on: they kick in for fathersday with the new Glo HD.. I think a lot of buyers now will feel not to good about it when it suddenly pops up.
Even my questions about the Glo HD on their Facebook page are deleted.
Normally they have a pre-order like they had with my prs-t3 of Sony for more then 6 weeks, now they have none.
So they try to sell the old ones,for the best possible price (for them,not for the buyer..)
There was a info page on the Dutch Kobo page telling all about the "personal assistant" but the Google cache doesn't show it anymore and the page now shows a 404 https://nl.kobo.com/koboglohd
That 404 page has always shown on any Kobo page on any countries site for UK ISPs. If it wasn't for this site I wouldn't even know a new Kobo was on the way
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Old 04-19-2015, 08:58 AM   #532
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That 404 page has always shown on any Kobo page on any countries site for UK ISPs. If it wasn't for this site I wouldn't even know a new Kobo was on the way
Oh we had about 20 commecial sites that mentioned it, even the organisation that makes national journal and news on tv have a special "tech" corner and they mentioned it with all the specs, and another newspage mentioned it.
All to late,because in the patch firmware corner of this site they found the code in the software about 4 weeks ago. (3.12.0 i think.)
But the national Kobo shop here first had a page, pictures and all, in our native language, and now they deleted it,or removed it.
A site where I pre-ordered in The Netherlands, called me back and told me that they first where able to order it,but that all orders are cancelled by Kobo.
So this will be hard to see how more and more people get their one delivered,while we can't order it until 1st of june...

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Old 04-19-2015, 09:54 AM   #533
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Yep I'm pretty sure it was a mistake that it was shipped out to me but I'm not complaining.

FYI anyone thinking of buying this might want to order from Staples anyway because they have a promotion right now with Visa Checkout. If your order is over $100 and you pay with Visa Checkout, you save $20 off your order. That's why I ordered with them in the first place.
Thanks for the tip. A very nice deal for Canadian buyers.
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Old 04-19-2015, 11:09 AM   #534
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If you use Coolreader or Koreader, does the search function any differently and let you go beyond 100 items?
Koreader has several search functions, both for within its File Manager and within the readers. I guess you are asking about within the readers.

I tried the "Fulltext search" option first; entering "the", to be sure and get over 100 results, and all the instances of "the", on the page, were highlighted and a navigation message window with direction arrows popped up. Of course there were "the" results on every page. Next, I'll try "discovery" and the first results were on the page I was on (306) the next arrow brought me to page 328. The book is about technical developments so "discovery" is used often. With the "the" search results pressing the go to last arrow brings me to the last page of the book with the "the" highlighted where it occurred on the page. The same with the go to first occurrence arrow, it went to the title page and highlighted all the "the" there.

Is this the kind of search you were looking for?

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Anyone knows where to pre-order one that ships to the Netherlands ?
Bol.com (Netherlands-Belgium) says that Kobo maintains the info on the site itself, so they don't know if it is possible to pre-order it because it is Kobo itself that put's it on the Bol.com website, I asked Kobo, but they don't answer so I am afraid that it will take a long,long time, providing other country/market first..
It isn't on the NL kobo page of the Kobo shop itself, not even a commercial.

It's on pre-order in NL at wehkamp.nl for €123. Am soooooo tempted!!
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Koreader has several search functions, both for within its File Manager and within the readers. I guess you are asking about within the readers.
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Is this the kind of search you were looking for?

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Yes, just what I wanted to know, thanks for checking that out. It might be worth exploring putting Koreader on again. For some reason though it kept locking up on my Glo, even with the correct extra patches that should have solved that problem.

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First impressions. The screen is really nice and the background is more white than my old glo. Also a plus is that at 1% the light is dimmer than my glo at 1%. Also, the texture of the screen feels smoother than my glo screen.
This alone would be worth the new reader for me. I still miss the really smooth feel of the glass on my 350s, the Glo feels rough in comparison.
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They delayed the official release day for the Netherlands till june 1st, so the extra money for holidays that comes in may will be spend to the Aura, and then / christal ball modus on: they kick in for fathersday with the new Glo HD..
In France, it seems that the release will be on May 22th.

Edit: any details regarding the Mini 2 that the goodereader guy refered to?

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I was going to anyways, but after reading about Staples, I pre-ordered mine from Chapters and crossing my fingers for early shipping!
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In France, it seems that the release will be on May 22th.

Edit: any details regarding the Mini 2 that the goodereader guy refered to?
I'm wondering about the Mini2 as well. I'll probably skip the Glo HD if a new 5 inch is confirmed.
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I could be wrong, but wasn't the last mini kind of a failure for them overall? IIRC most of the sales for the device were only after it was heavily discounted. Or maybe I'm remembering wrong?
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