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Old 11-11-2025, 06:41 AM   #16
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A Kaleido based Boox and Pocketbook are in local shops. I've showed those to people with me that have regular mono readers (Paperwhite 1, Libra 2, Sage) and they thought it was rubbish.

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The majority of people don't use eink, but phone and tablet.
The vast majority of ebooks sold are mono only novels.
And the only color is the cover and maybe a map (for mostly for fantasy books).
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I've not read of the newest firmware being buggy as hell. The only thing I am reading about it some external things that worked with the previous firmware not working with the new firmware. A good example is the patches. The programs to do the patches had to be updated and not all of the patches work. Fortunately most of the important patches work.

So please don't say the firmware is buggy as hell when it's not.
I've read that some people cannot turn the wifi off on the Libra Colour, because it's always turning back on by itself, with the newest firmware. Solution: revert back to previous firmware.
That is a bug like hell.

Well, not as bad, when it bricks your device, indeed.
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Old 11-11-2025, 07:22 AM   #18
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Kobo needs a 7" BW, a new 8"BW, and a 10.3" BW before they need a smaller then 6".
I agree, partially. Although a new 10.3″ device would be a mistake, given that they still haven’t sold the first gen Elipsa models, not to mention the Elipsa 2E piles.
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And still a 6" screen.

If you want a 7" screen, I cannot recommend Kobo as all they have is a rubbish colour Libra.
So, a new Kobo Aura HD ftw (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobo_Aura_HD, or Aura H2O)? Would a million-dollar question also be: infrared or capacitive touchscreen?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobo_e...gical_overview
The AuraHD too had a good pricing sale when discontinued iirc.
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And the only color is the cover and maybe a map (for mostly for fantasy books).
There may be other bits in color: title page, links, logos, images, other works by the author. And if your into highlighting/note taking, some colors.
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I've not read of the newest firmware being buggy as hell. The only thing I am reading about it some external things that worked with the previous firmware not working with the new firmware. A good example is the patches. The programs to do the patches had to be updated and not all of the patches work. Fortunately most of the important patches work.

So please don't say the firmware is buggy as hell when it's not.
I can't speak to the latest firmware available for Kobo color devices, but all of my BW Kobos are running the latest firmware available for them, and I've not noticed any bugs.

That said, I also am running straight stock firmware, no patches of any sort.
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I agree, partially. Although a new 10.3″ device would be a mistake, given that they still haven’t sold the first gen Elipsa models, not to mention the Elipsa 2E piles.
I agree. 6" and 7" are in the goldilock zone of reader sizes, they are more book like. Anything bigger wouldn't feel like a book, more like a table for me.
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I've read that some people cannot turn the wifi off on the Libra Colour, because it's always turning back on by itself, with the newest firmware. Solution: revert back to previous firmware.
That is a bug like hell.

Well, not as bad, when it bricks your device, indeed.
If that was an issue, there would be a lot more posts about it here. I think it doesn't effect as many as you think.
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I agree, partially. Although a new 10.3″ device would be a mistake, given that they still haven’t sold the first gen Elipsa models, not to mention the Elipsa 2E piles.
A new 10.3" Kobo with a much better battery and 300DPI would be what's needed.

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I can't speak to the latest firmware available for Kobo color devices, but all of my BW Kobos are running the latest firmware available for them, and I've not noticed any bugs.

That said, I also am running straight stock firmware, no patches of any sort.
This shows that Kobo's firmware is not buggy as hell. I'm running 4.38.23171 and it's not buggy as hell. Not at all.
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So, a new Kobo Aura HD ftw (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobo_Aura_HD, or Aura H2O)? Would a million-dollar question also be: infrared or capacitive touchscreen?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobo_e...gical_overview
The AuraHD too had a good pricing sale when discontinued iirc.
The Aura HD was released in April 2013. There are no new ones.
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There may be other bits in color: title page, links, logos, images, other works by the author. And if your into highlighting/note taking, some colors.
These other bits don't need color. And if you don't highlight enough, then you don't need color for that.

Most science fiction/fantasy books don't have images in the book. Yes, some do but most don't. Also, I've seen some without color images so that makes the number with color images an even smaller number.
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I agree. 6" and 7" are in the goldilock zone of reader sizes, they are more book like. Anything bigger wouldn't feel like a book, more like a table for me.
For me, a 7" is a good size and it's still portable enough and I can hold it in one hand to read.
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And the only color is the cover and maybe a map (for mostly for fantasy books).
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These other bits don't need color. And if you don't highlight enough, then you don't need color for that.

Most science fiction/fantasy books don't have images in the book. Yes, some do but most don't. Also, I've seen some without color images so that makes the number with color images an even smaller number.
Maybe next time lead with you don't need color, or add an "IMO", or for the limited content you read, ...
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Maybe next time lead with you don't need color, or add an "IMO", or for the limited content you read, ...
The point is that a lot of people don't need or want color and there is no 7" Kobo without color. That's the problem. For some, the 6" is too small and the 8" is either too large or the battery is not good enough.
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The 8″ Sage battery is good enough, it's just not as good as most others.

More than 9″ is really a document viewer. It would be good if there were 5, 7 and 9 inch choices as well as 6 and 8 inch for mono. But it's going to far to suggest that Kobo or the 8″ model are rubbish.

I found the 10.3″ no use at all to read novels.
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