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I tried deleting the Kobo data directory on the flash hard hoping for a fresh start but no luck. This was the first time I had to take a mechanical pencil and shove it into the tiny hole in the water-resistant access port in order to unwedge it. The home view UI came up, and it was flashing as it updated, de-incrementing the number of items in the library one by one, about five times, until it wedged hard. I decided to delete some things to see if that would make it more responsive. It took about eight hours to make sense of what was on the card. I went and did other things, checking on it periodically (new toy). This device begged for a minute and then wedged, for hours. Between that and WiFi being flaky, I'm already annoyed at this point.įirst go at using it: I copied about 20 pdfs to a micro SD card and put it in the slot.
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I was able to create an account on the manufacturer's site, but I'd really rather have not given anyone else my email address in order to have a pocket e-ink pdf reader.
It's nice that it has a long list of various booksellers it supports, all of them the lesser known ones, but I'm specifically avoiding the abusive giants, so this is good. There's no option to skip associating with an online account. It promised this would take less than a minute, but it took several.
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This repeated about ten times before it was able to successfully download its firmware updates. Clicking through to try again, it presented a list of access points - with none on it, not even the neighbors. I picked the home WiFi AP off of the top of the list of ten or so visible access points, then it started strobing its screen spastically for a mi nute before coming back with an error.
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One of the first steps is picking a WiFi access point (or else associating with software installed on a computer, but of course mine isn't supported). I'm taking class, so I have reference materials in various subject matters. When things are published as physical books, I generally buy them as such, so my use-case is everything else published electronically as pdf.
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Use-case: free pdf ebooks downloaded on line, like _50 Years of Naval Computing_, processor datasheets, _Atari, The Book_ (the guide to servicing electronic video arcade machines), engine service manuals, nautical charts, poster format diagrams, etc.
I’ve found this estimate to be accurate.Poor choice for pdfs, and badly written software Oh well, at least you won’t have to worry about the battery conking out mid session, it’s rated to last up to two months with moderate use. Flipping through such pages can be a lag-filled nightmare. Just don’t expect this e-reader to render them quickly, particularly if you’re reading graphics-laden PDFs or examining high-resolution JPEGs. Like the rest of the Kobo, this model can read a broad range of document types, including CBR, CBZ, EPUB, EPUB3, HTML, MOBI, PDF, RTF, and TXT, as well as BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, and TIFF image files. Still, the only time that might be a concern is if your reading habits entail loading up on larger files, such as PDFs. The Kobo Aura Edition 2 provides 4GB of internal storage unlike some of the other Kobo models, there’s no microSD card slot that would allow you to add to that. The Kobo Aura Edition 2’s backlight is much brighter at maximum brightness than the Paperwhite’s at its max, but there’s not much of a difference at the lower levels that most people will actually use. I haven’t liked any of the Kobo’s backlights, which render text murky when they’re cranked up.
The Paperwhite’s page transitions seem smoother, too. I read Earnest Hemingway’s For Whom The Bell Tolls on both the Aura Edition 2 and the 2015 Kindle Paperwhite, and while I didn’t experience eyestrain after reading the Kobo, I couldn’t get past how poor the Edition 2’s text looked in comparison to Amazon’s e-reader. Those e-readers boast 300 ppi resolution, as do all three of Amazon’s best Kindles. It’s considerably lower than the top-shelf Kobo Aura One and the Kobo Glo HD, which costs just $10 more. The 212 ppi resolution isn’t impressive either. The Edition 2’s display is adequate, but it is neither as bright nor as legible as other similarly priced e-readers.
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