Just read some PR-speak on the new Aura One, and I have a question:
I'm assuming that the light coming off the Glo HD includes a fair chunk of blue spectrum, and the best thing you can do is read without it, in the daytime, with the lighting off. Duh. But the PR speak from Kobo points out that both the Aura One and the GloHD have "ComfortLight", but only the Aura One is "front lit", which is not claimed of the Glo HD. I always assumed that the Glo HD was "front lit": that the light was actually directed at the surface of the tablet and not coming from behind it, aimed at one's face. Am I wrong about that?
Also newly available on the Aura One (but not the Glo HD): bluelight level adjustment. And... bluelight is increasingly a problem for me. (Are my assumptions about the bluelight "hazard" off the Glo HD just in my mind?)
FWIW, I just ordered an Asus ZenPad 8s to supersede my Kobo Arc HD7 for reading magazines from Zinio. Like the Kobo Arc HD7, the Asus screen resolution hits 320 ppi, and Arc HD7 is a dream for reading. But the Asus has a physically bigger screen, and while I still love my Arc HD7, reading Zinip magazines on the Arc HD7s 7-inch form factor usually leave something to be desired. The resolution on the Kobo is great - usually the problem is that the magazines don't have sufficient resolution - but I'm hoping that the 8" format of the Asus results in less dragging, expanding, and going back and forth between columns.
I already know about the ZenPad 8s's many problems - anemic battery life, no real audio to brag about - but these are problems I'm well used to with the Kobo ArcHD7. Moving to the Asus ZP is going to give me less weight, and feature built-in bluelight filtering (I know, I know, a million Android apps do it, too, but whatever.)
I have no plans to live without my Glo or GloHD, but I am still curious about where the light is "aimed" on those things.
I'm assuming that the light coming off the Glo HD includes a fair chunk of blue spectrum, and the best thing you can do is read without it, in the daytime, with the lighting off. Duh. But the PR speak from Kobo points out that both the Aura One and the GloHD have "ComfortLight", but only the Aura One is "front lit", which is not claimed of the Glo HD. I always assumed that the Glo HD was "front lit": that the light was actually directed at the surface of the tablet and not coming from behind it, aimed at one's face. Am I wrong about that?
Also newly available on the Aura One (but not the Glo HD): bluelight level adjustment. And... bluelight is increasingly a problem for me. (Are my assumptions about the bluelight "hazard" off the Glo HD just in my mind?)
FWIW, I just ordered an Asus ZenPad 8s to supersede my Kobo Arc HD7 for reading magazines from Zinio. Like the Kobo Arc HD7, the Asus screen resolution hits 320 ppi, and Arc HD7 is a dream for reading. But the Asus has a physically bigger screen, and while I still love my Arc HD7, reading Zinip magazines on the Arc HD7s 7-inch form factor usually leave something to be desired. The resolution on the Kobo is great - usually the problem is that the magazines don't have sufficient resolution - but I'm hoping that the 8" format of the Asus results in less dragging, expanding, and going back and forth between columns.
I already know about the ZenPad 8s's many problems - anemic battery life, no real audio to brag about - but these are problems I'm well used to with the Kobo ArcHD7. Moving to the Asus ZP is going to give me less weight, and feature built-in bluelight filtering (I know, I know, a million Android apps do it, too, but whatever.)
I have no plans to live without my Glo or GloHD, but I am still curious about where the light is "aimed" on those things.