If you think about it, media consumption really hasn’t changed so much. Waterproofing is different, that’s a game changer. I don’t need a light that auto adjusts especially not when it is fun to dim it on and off by sliding my finger. I don’t need effortless page turns I’ve never complained that it was too much work. Until now, all the eReader add-ons were just marketing gimmicks. I can let my kids use it without worrying about spilled juice or sticky fingers. I can take the Aura H20 to a beach or a swimming pool. I ran it under the sink to test it and a little window pops up acknowledging that it is wet. I can read in the bathtub without worrying about splashes. This is where the new Aura H20 really takes first place. Add a few hundred other kids’ and young adult books and the internal memory fills up pretty quickly. There are 62 books in the Goosebumps series alone and I’ve got them all loaded onto a microSD card. For me, however, my eReaders are shared with my kids (boys 7 and 9 years old) and I like to keep tons of options on there for them so that they never have an excuse not to read. E-Books are not very large files and the internal memory is mostly sufficient. I also like when I can upload professional or academic conference schedules when traveling.Įxpandable memory through the microSD slot is probably not a big deal for most users. What’s more, in academia there are always pdfs to read. Not only because I have a huge library of eBooks, also because I am constantly reading books that haven’t been published yet, epub files sent to me by author-friends. Both the Aura H20 and the Kindle Voyage allow you to send web pages to the device for later reading-Aura through Pocket, Kindle through Readability.įlexibility to use books and documents from outside of the proprietary ecosystem is particularly important to me. Comic book formats like CBZ and CBR also work. It pretty much takes any eBook type: EPUB, EPUB3, PDF, MOBI, and Adobe DRM digital editions.
Both the Kindle Voyage and the Aura H20 are built to prioritize support for their respective eBookstores, but the Kobo eReader is more opened to sideloading.
If you want to use non-DRM protected eBooks, the type of eReader you buy makes a huge difference. The Aura H20 is the most open eReader in terms of compatibility and it is the only eReader that has a microSD card slot.įirst, let me say a few things about compatibility. You reach a point where the image is fine and little resolution improvements are irrelevant. In fact, often the e-text looks better than it does on the cheaply printed paper books that are now commonplace.
Ever since Amazon’s Paperwhite and Kobo’s Aura HD, eReader screens have been as clear as a paper book. The thing about all these detailed resolution and ppi specs, however, is that they only serve for marketing and reviewing purposes. Both the Kindle Voyage and the Aura H20 have the same resolution, but the Kobo eReader’s larger size makes it 265ppi rather than 300ppi. Amazon makes a big deal out of resolution, comparing pixels per inch and screen resolution and all of that stuff.
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