Aura ONE Kobo Aura One owners thread

[emilov]

Originally Posted by musteman

El problema de la batería radica en un problema en el software del equipo. El día 26 de septiembre lanzaremos una actualización que debe solucionar este inconveniente. Por favor actualice su Kobo haciendo un "Sycn" ese día. Si el problema persiste después de la actualización por favor vuelva a contactarnos.

Ahora bien, para intentar solucionar los otros problemas aplique un reset de factoría en el Kobo, aunque le recomiendo que espere a la actualización del día 26, que lo más seguro traiga otras mejoras en general para el equipo. Si después de la actualización los problemas persisten, entonces sí puede aplicar el reset de fabrica.

Dejamos el correo abierto en espera de su confirmación de que los problemas fueron resueltos después de la nueva actualización del día 26.

As per Google Translate:
The battery problem lies a problem in the computer software. The September 26 release an update that should fix this problem. Please update your Kobo doing a "Sycn" that day. If the problem persists after the update, please contact us again.

Now to try to solve the other problems apply a factory reset on the Kobo, but I recommend that you wait for the update on the 26th, the safest bring other general improvements to the team. If after updating problems persist, then it can apply the factory reset.

Mail leave open pending confirmation that the problems were resolved after the new update on 26.

[piratepanda]

Does anyone else find the contrast a little bit on the weak side? Can anyone suggest fonts which do not get too bold when raising the weight before the contrast is fine?

[emilov]

Originally Posted by piratepanda

Does anyone else find the contrast a little bit on the weak side? Can anyone suggest fonts which do not get too bold when raising the weight before the contrast is fine?

I've tried a few fonts and now I ended up using standard Georgia but bolded a bit via the Advanced Settings. It looks very contrasty and it is quite readable to me. Amazon's Bookerly is another option you can sideload but to bolden that you need to patch (which I've done). Georgia is one of KA1's standard fonts, no patching necessary to play around with it. A lot of people seem to be happy with Amasis too.

Another good and decently readable font which you can sideload but do not need to mess further with is Charis SIL Modified Larger.

[Poppaea]

Are the footnote pop-ups gone??? If so, I might throw a tantrum they'll be hearing in Canada!

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by Poppaea

Are the footnote pop-ups gone??? If so, I might throw a tantrum they'll be hearing in Canada!

No they are not gone.

[Poppaea]

Originally Posted by davidfor

No they are not gone.

David, what am I doing wrong then? The same books that show them on my Aura, doon't on the One.

[latepaul]

My Aura One initial impressions.

I've had mine for about 24 hours now. (Ordered in the UK from Kobo). In that time I charged it up, set it up, transferred some books, played with the light settings and did a little reading.

I didn't get the official cover because I did that when I got an Aura HD and didn't like it, it turned what was a quite nice back into an uncomfortable to hold one. I wanted to see how the Aura One felt in my hand "raw" before choosing a 3rd party cover possibly. Anyway it is indeed light to hold though I did find in bed last night that the most comfortable position was with my thumb and forefinger in a kind of L-shape bracing the bottom, but that this only remains comfortable for so long. It's a shame the non-touch borders on the front aren't a tiny bit wider.

The new firmware is disappointing. They've taken away functionality I use (ability to hide non-downloaded books) and not added anything new that I will use AFAICS. But there's an update due so...

With the light off and in daylight/external light the screen is very nice looking. It's crisp and you really get the benefit of the extra resolution. Not a lot to say really but I loaded up my favourite extra fonts and it was nice.

My library uses 3M and Borrow Box so the Overdrive support is irrelevant atm.

Which brings me to the light. Let me separate this into the light as it should be and as it is.
So I noticed straight away that there's a kind of shadowy edge around the screen. Actually when I went back and compared it with my Glo HD I noticed it has the same effect but you don't normally see it because the raised bezel is there and that tricks the eye into thinking it's the shadow from that.

Another annoyance was that there are a couple of bright spots along the bottom where the LEDs seem closer to the edge than the others. It's less noticeable if you hold it flat but if you hold it at an angle looking down it's there.

There's also some 'rainbow-ing' but less than I've seen on some screenshots here.

So those are issues that potentially shouldn't be there.

One of the reasons I bought the Aura One was I was intrigued by the light temperature thing. I use one of those apps on my Android tablet to do the same thing and whilst I'm not sure I 'like' the effect I do feel like it's more soothing to the eyes at night. With the Aura One I was immediately aware that I don't like to read what has become black on orange. Maybe it helps my eyes but it looks ugly. I hadn't really thought this through before buying.

Again comparing with my Glo HD the One is brighter at the same %. I've got it a 2% at the moment and the Glo is at 6% I think.

To be fair I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that I don't get on with the lights in ereaders. It either feels like the light is too bright or the contrast is lost. On my Glo HD and Paperwhite 2 I use Koreader with night mode. I may in time end up going back to using a bedside lamp (no partner to annoy).

I haven't noticed any battery issues. I think it charged it up to 90% when I took it off to load books yesterday afternoon. Apart from messing around I used it an hour last night reading continuously and the same this morning. The battery is currently 86%.

I don't know yet whether I'm unhappy enough with the light to send it back. I've seen worse on here and I'm wondering if that's just the state of the technology right now.

[frostschutz]

Originally Posted by Poppaea

David, what am I doing wrong then? The same books that show them on my Aura, doon't on the One.

Really the same files?

Sounds like you're using KEPUB on Aura, EPUB on One.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by Poppaea

David, what am I doing wrong then? The same books that show them on my Aura, doon't on the One.

I tested before and it worked. Trying right now, it looks like sideloaded and purchased kepubs are being treated differently. For the one purchased kepub that I have and knows has footnotes, they popup as expected. For the epub and epub version converted to kepub, they are just links. It might be the way the links are coded, but I am sure this worked with 3.19. I'll have to do some more checking.

[Poppaea]

Originally Posted by frostschutz

Really the same files.

Yes, the same files. But they are all sideloaded as I run all my book through Calibre.

[Poppaea]

My Aura runs on 3.19 and the One on 4.doesntworkproperly. And all my books are sideloaded kepubs. Thank you for checking!

[jackie_w]

Re: the pop-up footnotes, I can confirm that the exact same calibre-sideloaded epub-sent-as-kepub footnotes pop up correctly on my H2O (fw 3.19.5761) but not on my AuraOne (fw 4.0.7523). How disappointing. I hope Kobo change their mind about this.

ETA: I should have been more specific. The above test was an epub2. I just tried Doitsu's 'Epub3 Footnotes Test' (it's posted somewhere here on MR but I can't remember where) and that pops up footnotes OK on AuraOne (fw 4.0.7523) after using KoboTouchExtended to format-shift the epub3 to kepub during calibre send-to-device.

[anacreon]

Reading while waiting for the bus in the sun today, I noticed a gap along the right and the bottom raised edges which I hadn't noticed before. I don't know whether it is recent, or whether it was there since day one (September 8) and it took debris (crumbs? pollen?) for me to see it.

Back home with a ruler, I estimate it at 1/2 mm width. It is more annoying at the bottom, with whitish matter. The reddish at the side I managed to eliminate with a fingernail.

Is it common? Is there a risk it will increase? Can it affect waterproofing?

[alizarin]

My KA1 has a small gap on one side too. I leave it on my bedside table overnight and dust gets into the gap. Not a huge issue, but it irks my inner OCD

[Poppaea]

Originally Posted by anacreon

Reading while waiting for the bus in the sun today, I noticed a gap along the right and the bottom raised edges which I hadn't noticed before. I don't know whether it is recent, or whether it was there since day one (September 8) and it took debris (crumbs? pollen?) for me to see it.

Back home with a ruler, I estimate it at 1/2 mm width. It is more annoying at the bottom, with whitish matter. The reddish at the side I managed to eliminate with a fingernail.

Is it common? Is there a risk it will increase? Can it affect waterproofing?

Dunno about the waterproofing. As I understood it, the insides are coated so is should work just fine, but I am not a technican at all.

As for the gap, mine has a minimal gap too. And it seems to be very common. On the German review site allesebook.de is an article about the success of the One and the gaps are mentioned.

Die ersten Käufer des eReaders haben ein positives Bild des Geräts gezeichnet und loben mehrheitlich das niedrige Gewicht, die tolle Haptik und die gleichmäßige Beleuchtung. Ärger gibt’s gelegentlich wegen schnell entladenden Akkus (was sich wohl auf ein Softwareproblem zurückführen lässt), ungenauer Touchscreens und wegen minimal ungleicher Spaltmaße an der Vorderseite (links und oben größer als rechts und unten).

Den Spaltmaß-Mangel schätze ich nach kurzer Analyse der bisher veröffentlichten Kundenfotos (und drei unterschiedlicher Geräte) als „normal“ ein und führe diesen weniger auf Fertigungstoleranzen zurück. Als Interessent des Geräts ist man daher gut beraten bei Erhalt eher auf die Fehlerfreiheit des Bildschirms, des Touchscreens und der Beleuchtung zu achten, als einen Umtausch wegen ungleicher Spaltmaße anzustreben.

IIRC you read German, right?

For everyone else: Buyers should better have a look at the screen and lightning qualties and make sure those a fine. The gap is within production tolerances and nothing to be bothered by.