Kobo Aura One review

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by anacreon

https://teleread.org/2016/08/30/in-d...e-order-day-1/

For once an American reviewer with a balanced view between Kobos and Kindles.

Now, that's one of the few honest reviewers I've read. Especially a sentence like this:

Don’t be put off, necessarily, by the number of negatives I’ve listed. What annoys other people may not bother you.

I really liked this review.

[JSWolf]

The Teleread review only has 9 possible negatives and not 10. Not having buttons is not a negative. It's what is. So you would know this going in.

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The Teleread review only has 9 possible negatives and not 10. Not having buttons is not a negative. It's what is. So you would know this going in.

It is a negative. For this reviewer. Read what I quoted. For me, it's also a negative. Does that mean I won't get it? No, because I can live without it. Would I prefer one that has buttons: absolutely.

A negative point doesn't mean it's bad. It means it doesn't tick all your boxes. Only you can decide how much it'll influence your buying choices.

For me, of those negatives he mentioned, only points 2, 5 and 10 are negatives for me.

[Akerbos]

Originally Posted by anacreon

Hey there Kobo: couldn't you at lest SELL us good dictionaries?

Phaw. They should be consistent with their (relative) openness and allow us sideload dictionaries. There are standard formats, and free ones available.

Seriously: when I got an ereader for the first time, I was excited thinking it would help me learn Swedish better, what with built-in dictionaries and all. Of course, Swedish isn't in there by default. Not being able to get it in there sucks.

Okay, there seems to be a way to replace the pre-installed dictionaries, but even if that still works it's a hack at best.

[Akerbos]

Originally Posted by jscris

I've solved it with the Voyage by gluing something on the back cover, but it's not something that should have to be done.

Lucky for you, sleep covers use physics, not magic.

Use something iron to figure out where in your sleep cover the magnet is. Touch a not too strong fridge magnet to the device in the corresponding place. Happiness ensues.

I just confirmed with by Aura HD that this works; the sweet spot is at the bottom-right corner of the screen. The most worn-out magnet didn't do the trick, so you may want/have to work your way up in strength.

So, wrapping a small magnet in a piece of cloth gives you a tool you can easily keep handy in bed. (I just hope you don't wear a pacemaker. :P)

[jscris]

Originally Posted by Akerbos

Lucky for you, sleep covers use physics, not magic.

Use something iron to figure out where in your sleep cover the magnet is. Touch a not too strong fridge magnet to the device in the corresponding place. Happiness ensues.

I just confirmed with by Aura HD that this works; the sweet spot is at the bottom-right corner of the screen. The most worn-out magnet didn't do the trick, so you may want/have to work your way up in strength.

So, wrapping a small magnet in a piece of cloth gives you a tool you can easily keep handy in bed. (I just hope you don't wear a pacemaker. :P)

LOL Thanks for the suggestion but I did try that, even bought the nice magnet. What I ended up with is easier.

[beachboybogart]

Some of the negatives in that review are more related to the state of the technology of eInk. Changing fonts and sizes is not smooth, he says... but the device doesn't use a computer-type video display and driver, so it is actually the limitations of eInk that cause that jerkiness, I believe.

In any case, I am getting it because of the screen size; the original Aura shows much more like the real size of a paperback page; far less turning involved. I think this will be even better. Sometimes when reading you need to quickly go back a para or two to re-establish your place, so the more the merrier. Although Stephen King once said 'if you have to reread a sentence to get it, the author didn't do his job', some stories will make me daydream for a second...

[Raymond73]

I updated my (review)copy of the Aura ONE this evening and new firmware (4.0.7523) showed up. No changelog nor can i find any differences. Yet

[beespeckled]

I do wish the manual pdf was available from their website. My experiences with buying Sony or Fuji (digital cameras) is that once they are available the pdf's manuals are as
well.

[Poppaea]

Just checked the German Kobo site to see if I can preorder and it said:

"No shipping costs on all e-readers. Offer ends Sept 5th."

That's cheeky! As if they weren't expensive enough to ship for free to start with. I bought my Aura in a store and will do so with the Aura One now, too.

[wizardyhnr]

the chip looks like sdin5d2-8g, which is a mlc nand with decent controller. I would expect it will last much longer than most crappy 64GB TLC sd card nowadays.

Originally Posted by The_Immortal

chrisridd,
Look at this. Sandisk chip - 8 GB eMMC as I get it.

frostschutz, thank you!

Sadly