Kobo Aura One

So I have Kindles, Nooks and now exploring the Kobo series of e-readers.I have a stack of them.Why? Seriously, who wants to carry around 10,000+ books? I DO.My library goes with me and is backed up a LOT.It fits on this 8gb onboard storage with room to spare.I have put images in showing the comparisons of screens.First picture:From left to writeLeft is a Kindle Paperwhite I bought this February [LOVE it, but these Kobos are in fact slightly BETTER]Next is a Kobo Aura H2O Gen 2 (6.8" screen)Third is the Kobo Aura ONE (7.8" screen)Far right is a B&N Nook reader SimpleTouch with GlowLight2nd picture: Aura One (7.8") side by side with Nook3rd picture: Aura H2O [second edition] side by side with the Kobo Aura OneThat orange-ish light is totally adjustable in brightness / intensity and you can go with normal light [like a the paperwhite display] during daylight hours. But it is very easy on the eyes.Page flipping has to be handled by pressing on the screen or swiping (presses can be adjusted to be vertically oriented [top back, bottom forward] or adjusted for horizontal. Swiping the page works as well.The paperwhite has a nice 6 inch screen and is utterly convenient to Amazon marketplace and beastly to anything else [no epub support even in 2017? come on]Now, the kobos start at 6.8" for the Aura H2O and go to 7.8 inches for this model (Aura ONE). As any woman can tell you, inches count.All of these are comfortable to hold in the hand, but the ability to easily sideload and use multiple formats has really made this Aura One reader stand out among the crowd.Oh and did I mention waterproofed?Want to read in the tub? By the pool? Oceanside? Kobo has that covered OUT OF THE BOX.Amazon, if you are listening?Bring this blueblocker tech into the next revisions and allow for other formats.All of the other e-reader buildersMy biggest complaint about ALL of them is BOOK MANAGEMENT. Let me have and easily organize thousands of books based on FILE STRUCTURE inside the e-reader!! Nook comes close but it only lets you view them in cover mode.I want to SEE my filenames in a nice series of lists and genres (directories). Do this and us bibliophiles will beat down your door.A second place alternate is allowing readers to manage tags [genres, authors, titles] and to easily manage collections via software on a laptop.Oh and BULK SELECT is a must.Final rantI do information security. I DO NOT trust cloud based solutions farther than I can throw them.If it's online it can get lost, copied, stolen, held for ransom.And disk space [micro sd cards] are dirt cheap. 32gb for 12 bucks is more space for books than I will ever use.Equifax losing control over 143 million records and Deloitte losing 250,000 customer facing private emails only makes me avoid the cloud more.Carry your library in your palm. Pick one of these readers up. You won't regret it.

This was an excellent purchase. The display is crisp and well-defined, and the backlight is even in brightness, though not perfectly consistent in color. The software is reliable and speedy, and the Overdrive integration is perfect. This reader also supports every format I've tried.Downsides: with heavy use, it requires a charge every other day. Also, vertical swipes to control brightness are ineffective because too short a stroke fails to register, and too long overshoots.Those points aside, this is an excellent reader.

This has been an excellent reader. Nice weight, excellent battery life, and the light color options are perfect - i prefer a more natural/warm white than most e-readers have with their almost blue backlights but if you like the "6500k" white look, it can do that. At its warmest color it's definitely orange, which is weird but real easy on the eyes.

A fantastic item, layout and organization, especially in conjunction with Cailbre is much superior to Kindle. Night-time mode is pretty nice too. The extra size opens up reading to fixed layout items like PDFs that are unpleasant on the Kindle. The CBZ support is pretty neat too.Just avoid "Triplenet Pricing INC" if you want a new one as they ship used/broken items as new (and make you pay shipping on the return). As things stand now, I'd buy it from Rakuten directly and give Amazon a pass on this one.

Big screen and acceptable performance for an E-Reader. Don't expect to be reading too many graphic novels as It can be quite slow with zooming on PDF's. The backlight isn't perfect but pretty darn close. Battery lasts one week with the light on.

Big which is nice, Amazon if your listening... needs to make something similar with perhaps higher quality control, but this is where the romance ends, laggy, slow uneven backlighting and night mode is useless on higher settings, compared to the kindle lineup this thing doesn't get nearly as dark at the lowest or nearly as bright at the highest of settings

I'll start the post by saying that this ereader by far has more capabilities than others I've tried thus far. I knew right away that a kindle would be no good because: 1. They don't make any versions larger than 6"2. There's no way to read articles on the kindle like what's available on the Kobo through Pocket.Bearing those in mind, there's just not enough good things about the actual performance of the device to make me give anything other than a lukewarm response.While at first the kobo was able to handle all my articles and boom downloads quite well, the last couple of days has seen me struggling to load new articles or open downloaded books. I even had an hour where the kobo froze up and continually started shutting down and turning back on.That's not something I can overlook when I've just paid over $200 for this device.Secondly, I've had trouble refreshing the articles to see my new downloads- even though they were added to my account 30 minutes ago.Finally, the layout is atrocious. It'd be really nice to have a way of seeing my articles on the homepage (since that's what I mostly read anyways) or having am icon for the internet to use (rather than hitting settings>beta>internet>start.With these things in mind, while it certainly does what no other ereader was able to deliver (for under $600 that is) I simply cannot recommend it. Unless you are prepared for constant glitches and an unintuitive home experience, I'd highly suggest avoiding this device.

I love this reader!!!! My favorite thing ever. Sometimes the touch is unresponsive but add more passion to it and it works. I once bought Tropic of Orange on Apple Books and it refused to read the book! Turns out certain ebooks have some kind of protection...