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http://mclements.net/blogWP/index.ph...t-impressions/
The eInk reader bug recently bit me again and I tried a Kobo Glo HD. Nice, but too small so I bought a Kobo Aura One. It just arrived yesterday these are my first impressions.
That screen. is. so. gorgeous. The 7.8″ size complements the great contrast and resolution, and the excellent font rendering algorithm. This is the best eInk screen I have ever seen. I could read this for hours. The bigger size screen is perfect for reading technical documents having charts & pictures.
Its lighter and thinner than my 8″ tablet, easier to hold with a grippy back texture, and the screen is matte not glossy reducing reflections.
It synchronizes beautifully with Calibre, just like the Glo HD topics become collections, syncing annotations, etc. And the software is open you can side-load your own fonts and it renders them beautifully, and there are hacks available to open some closed features.
The touch screen sucks. Theres no other way to describe it. Too frequently it fails to register my touches. I dont have this problem with phones, tablets, or the Kobo Glo HD. Ive been trying to use it slower, but thats a real pain when typing notes into my books.
The auto-dimming backlight is mysteriously broken. Its fine in a dark room evenly lit. Then when you turn on the room lights, the backlight gets brighter!? Just when you need less backlight, it gives you more? I set it for 2-3% in a dark room, then when I turn on the lights it goes up to 10%. If I hold it up close to the light it goes up to 30%. Also, when I put it to sleep, the backlight stays on! This is completely backward and wastes battery. And the auto-illumination level is unstable. As I read, every few moments the backlight subtly and slowly pulses dimmer & brighter. This is a distracting waste of battery.
The backlight hue is a nice feature and works OK, but not great. At full brightness, the colors are even. But I never use full brightness. Below about 30% brightness, which is still pretty bright, the colors are uneven. As the color shifts red, a distracting greenish shard appears in the lower left of the screen and grows toward the center. All that said, its nice to be able to set it to a neutral color between blue & red, and leave it there.
I have not yet tested the water-proof-ness. I should, while its still under warranty!
So its an imperfect device. Is it worth keeping? I need more time with it to decide. Kobos terms give 30 days.
http://mclements.net/blogWP/index.ph...t-impressions/
The eInk reader bug recently bit me again and I tried a Kobo Glo HD. Nice, but too small so I bought a Kobo Aura One. It just arrived yesterday these are my first impressions.
That screen. is. so. gorgeous. The 7.8″ size complements the great contrast and resolution, and the excellent font rendering algorithm. This is the best eInk screen I have ever seen. I could read this for hours. The bigger size screen is perfect for reading technical documents having charts & pictures.
Its lighter and thinner than my 8″ tablet, easier to hold with a grippy back texture, and the screen is matte not glossy reducing reflections.
It synchronizes beautifully with Calibre, just like the Glo HD topics become collections, syncing annotations, etc. And the software is open you can side-load your own fonts and it renders them beautifully, and there are hacks available to open some closed features.
The touch screen sucks. Theres no other way to describe it. Too frequently it fails to register my touches. I dont have this problem with phones, tablets, or the Kobo Glo HD. Ive been trying to use it slower, but thats a real pain when typing notes into my books.
The auto-dimming backlight is mysteriously broken. Its fine in a dark room evenly lit. Then when you turn on the room lights, the backlight gets brighter!? Just when you need less backlight, it gives you more? I set it for 2-3% in a dark room, then when I turn on the lights it goes up to 10%. If I hold it up close to the light it goes up to 30%. Also, when I put it to sleep, the backlight stays on! This is completely backward and wastes battery. And the auto-illumination level is unstable. As I read, every few moments the backlight subtly and slowly pulses dimmer & brighter. This is a distracting waste of battery.
The backlight hue is a nice feature and works OK, but not great. At full brightness, the colors are even. But I never use full brightness. Below about 30% brightness, which is still pretty bright, the colors are uneven. As the color shifts red, a distracting greenish shard appears in the lower left of the screen and grows toward the center. All that said, its nice to be able to set it to a neutral color between blue & red, and leave it there.
I have not yet tested the water-proof-ness. I should, while its still under warranty!
So its an imperfect device. Is it worth keeping? I need more time with it to decide. Kobos terms give 30 days.