Kobo Aura One review

[booklover6]

Originally Posted by chrisridd

Why would the number of books make a difference? They're just stored bits on the internal flash storage, nothing should be accessing them unless you open the book.

You're right - although as a result of a lot less books on the device, I spend a lot less time browsing the contents. That's probably what I was thinking when I wrote my remark.

[Barty]

Originally Posted by The_Immortal

Sweetpea,
The same for me. However there are people who believe that's the real problem.

For example (by the way you can find in this review all subjective negatives about One):

And honestly 15 hrs is very small

The oasis has a 250mAh battery . The One is 1200. Really not comparable.

[graycyn]

Originally Posted by Canuck_in_Japan

I'm not sure why anyone would buy the official Kobo cover anyways. I believe the price in Canada for the cover is $50. That is just absolutely ridiculous. When I bought my original Aura the official cover came included and it was just terrible. I'm sure the free market will come up with superior and cheaper covers.

Well, I would buy it!

I tried a non-official, knock off cover for my Aura HD and it was AWFUL! I know some here liked the knock off, I bought it from an eBay link posted here in fact, but it just ruined the experience of using my device.

1) Protruding magnet that fell under my thumb when holding the reader. PAINFUL! (Kobo cover has flush magnet.)

2) Metal edge on the cover that made a LOUD obnoxious click when closing the cover. (No exposed metal on Kobo cover, just leather on the outside, microfiber on the inside. There's a click, but so much softer sounding.)

3) Magnet too strong! Made it much harder to easily open the reader. (Kobo cover magnet is just right, keeps it closed, but you don't have to pry it open.)

4) Removal of the knock-off was so difficult I thought I was going to damage the e-reader! (Kobo cover, while not exactly easy to remove, never made me fear for my reader's life.)

Upshot, though the non-official cover cost a 5th of the price of the expensive Kobo leather sleepcover, it was wasted money, because it was so bad I threw it out. YMMV.

Anyway, 3 years later, Kobo cover has provided a wonderful experience the whole time and still looks brand new unless you look very, very closely at it. I consider that $50 well spent.

That said, new reader, new cover, perhaps the official cover would not be to my taste this time. But I'm certainly willing to give it a try based on past experience.

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[Josieb1]

Originally Posted by Canuck_in_Japan

I'm not sure why anyone would buy the official Kobo cover anyways. I believe the price in Canada for the cover is $50. That is just absolutely ridiculous. When I bought my original Aura the official cover came included and it was just terrible. I'm sure the free market will come up with superior and cheaper covers.

I always buy the official cover. It's money well spent as none of the third party covers (and I've had more than a few ) ever come up to the standard of the official covers.

I've learnt that the hard way.

[graycyn]

Originally Posted by Josieb1

I always buy the official cover. It's money well spent as none of the third party covers (and I've had more than a few ) ever come up to the standard of the official covers.

I've learnt that the hard way.

Yes, had 2 different style non-official covers for my Aura HD. One was passable, I have it still in case something ever damages the official cover. The other was so completely unacceptable it was tossed out.

I will see what people think of the official cover, as I'm not pre-ordering, but my inclination would be to buy it.

FWIW, Oberon leather covers are wonderful, and protective, but do add a lot of weight. I used one on my original Nook and that *did* exceed the standard of the official Nook cover, by far. But the price also exceeded that of the official Nook cover, i.e. double . ;-)

And I've heard good things about Noreve leather covers for devices as well, but same deal, more expensive than official covers, not less.

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[khalleron]

I've had good experiences with unofficial covers. I got M-Edge covers for my Sonys, I'm using an easel case for my H2O that I like a lot.

YMMV, of course.

[Blossom]

I get a three week charge on my Glo HD reading 3-5 hours a day.

Sent from my Nexus 7

[freekobo]

Okay, so I was looking over this review again;
http://mobile.hdblog.it/2016/08/30/k...ne-recensione/

and then I came to some images...what the?!COLOR?!
I do not understand how these images where captured!

http://i2.hd-cdn.it/img/max_width660...6/id528008.jpg
http://i2.hd-cdn.it/img/max_width660...6/id528007.jpg
http://i2.hd-cdn.it/img/max_width660...6/id528005.jpg
http://i2.hd-cdn.it/img/max_width660...6/id528002.jpg
http://i2.hd-cdn.it/img/max_width660...6/id527986.jpg

Anyone have any idea?

[robko]

Originally Posted by freekobo

Okay, so I was looking over this review again;
http://mobile.hdblog.it/2016/08/30/k...ne-recensione/

and then I came to some images...what the?!COLOR?!
I do not understand how these images where captured!

Anyone have any idea?

Yes. The output to the screen is colour but since e-ink is black and white you only get greyscale on the device. As was discovered by those who figured out how to take screenshots via adding a command in the config file, the screenshots are actually in colour since the underlying data in the book is in colour (in case you are using it on a table etc.). So it seems weird, but they are legit. You'll notice the pic's linked to only show the screen contents and no frame.

[freekobo]

Originally Posted by robko

Yes. The output to the screen is colour but since e-ink is black and white you only get greyscale on the device. As was discovered by those who figured out how to take screenshots via adding a command in the config file, the screenshots are actually in colour since the underlying data in the book is in colour (in case you are using it on a table etc.). So it seems weird, but they are legit. You'll notice the pic's linked to only show the screen contents and no frame.

cool, did not know that. thanks.

[GeoffR]

The colour cover thumbnails will be from sideloaded books, the covers that are downloaded from the Kobo cloud are automatically reduced to greyscale before being sent to a greyscale device, which saves some space. The same automatic reduction to greyscale can be done by Calibre for sideloaded books by selecting the appropriate option in the KoboTouch driver.

[robko]

Originally Posted by GeoffR

The colour cover thumbnails will be from sideloaded books, the covers that are downloaded from the Kobo cloud are automatically reduced to greyscale before being sent to a greyscale device, which saves some space. The same automatic reduction to greyscale can be done by Calibre for sideloaded books by selecting the appropriate option in the KoboTouch driver.

To shamelessly steal from freekobo, cool, did not know that. thanks.

[Jason90]

Originally Posted by robko

Yes. The output to the screen is colour but since e-ink is black and white you only get greyscale on the device. As was discovered by those who figured out how to take screenshots via adding a command in the config file, the screenshots are actually in colour since the underlying data in the book is in colour (in case you are using it on a table etc.). So it seems weird, but they are legit. You'll notice the pic's linked to only show the screen contents and no frame.

Interesting had no idea that was the case,would make for an easy transition if a color e reader ever came out in the future i suppose,i wonder if the same is true for comic files?

[rashkae]

Originally Posted by Erich Zann

15 hours is a wrong number for 30 days × 30 minutes.
It's probably correct when you read 15 hours in one month. But if yo read much more—let's say 15 hours in a day—you'll get more than the double of it.

See my own test:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=275804

Cheers

Your own test *confirms* that you're right in line with the Kobo estimates.

H20 estimate is 2 months, (30 minutes / day) with light on, wifi off.

From your test:
light at 50%: 35,9 hours

If the Estimated battery life of the One is half of the H20, that places it squarely in the < 20 hours expected reading time.

[Richard529]

Review by Goodereader:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8Zxhhsh-Ho