![]() One would think this means that the Forma packs a smaller battery. Where the Oasis sports a battery hump on one side of its chassis, the Forma is flat, both front and back. Pick up an Oasis or a Forma, however, and you’ll immediately understand that the similarities are shallow, at best. Both devices boast large displays with an oblong bezel on one side, which hosts a pair of page -urn buttons. One of the first things you may notice about the Kobo Forma is how much it resembles an Amazon All-New Kindle Oasis. The Forma’s power and page turn buttons can all be found on the device’s bezel, similar to the design of the Amazon Oasis 2. A 32GB iteration of the device is also available for a whopping $330-the same price as a 32GB iPad. ![]() So long as you’re not stuffing it full of chunky Manga, comic books or PDF files, this is more than enough storage to contain thousands of books. My Kobo Aura H20 is much better with the infrared screen which I why I say it’s the better Kobo model.In its base configuration, the Forma is available with 8GB of non-expandable storage for $280. This is unacceptable.ĭon’t get me wrong, for the cost, it’s great and it definitely fills a much needed hole but I can’t be but disappointed in the screen quality. ![]() Highlighting is still a chore, responsiveness is still a bit slow, I still got a few freezes and I had to sometimes press twice on a certain application to launch it. The second issue is that despite this being a new model running the latest software, it’s still nowhere near as fast, smooth and fluid as my Kindle. The lighting also was not evenly distributed on both models and while using night mode, I saw that the higher you turn up night color lever, you start getting different color hues on the bottom (try it) which was a disaster to say the least. The text was washed, not bold enough and didn’t pop out as it does with My Voyage. My main gripe is with the screen quality and after going through 2 different Aura ONE models and extensively using both, I realized the screen was nowhere near on par with my Kindle Voyage. I personally prefer reading on a Kobo as opposed to Kindle. I also agree that indexing is better on a Kobo. I agree, the Aura One is a much better overall deal consider the features, size, customization and price. (You have to delete the index folder and replace it with an empty file of the same name).Īs someone who has used multiple Kobo and multiple Kindle e-ink devices, Kobo is a better choice, both for hardware and software. Personally, I turn off indexing on my Kindles because of this problem but Amazon does not make this easy. Amazon knows they have a problem (look at the google results) and they’ve done nothing to fix it. IMHO, what’s worse is that this is a problem that has existed since the Kindle’s birth. It simply is not a problem with Kobo software. ![]() In my experience, adding a thousand sideloaded books takes about 5 – 10 minutes to index on either the H2O or the Aura One. Now google Kobo indexing problem and you’ll find few issues. Even if the index doesn’t fail, it can take hours to index large numbers of sideloaded books. Kindle doesn’t *tell* you that the index has failed, the device just slows down and eats battery life. ![]() You’ll see that “stuck books” (where indexing fails) is a problem, especially when sideloading lots of books. If you’re unfamiliar with Kindle’s indexing issues, you can see the problem for yourself by simply Googling Kindle indexing problem. There’s also one other factor that doesn’t get discussed much in the Kobo vs Kindle debate and that’s indexing. FWIW, the screen quality of *my* Aura One is every bit as good as my Kindle Voyage and the larger size makes the KA1 screen (much) much better.Īdd in the far better typography controls, double the storage AND the cheaper price (when converted to US dollars) and I’d choose the Kobo Aura One over the Kindle Voyage, any day. ![]()
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