For UK buyers - Argos says Kobo's are excluded

[Lyn2012]

Originally Posted by HarryT

No, as you say, it will be set to some average sort of sensitivity. My iPhone has auto brightness-setting which works absolutely fine for me, but I'm sure there are many people who disable it. The point is that it will work fine for many people, and those for whom it doesn't work can set the light level manually, just as they do at the moment. Nobody is any the worse off by the addition of such a facility. To refer to it as a "nanny" facility is just pure Amazon-bashing.

Fair enough as long as there is the option of switching it off. Too often these new 'improvements' are given to us without an option to not use them.