/lit/ - Literature

>The perfect reading device doesn't exsi-

Are you a snob that must read a physical copy of a book? Why or why not? Do you have a preference of digital vs physical? I have a Kobo Glo HD and it's literally perfect, I thought that I would hate reading digital copies of things but it's surprisingly amazing with e-ink screens.

I bought a Kobo Glo HD recently. I'm on the fence as to whether it was a good purchase or not, primarily because I haven't tried a Kindle Paperwhite for comparison.

The Kobo's response to touch is dog-slow. Hold-pressing over a word should bring up the dictionary but a minority percentage of the time flips the page, depending on where the word is on the screen. The too-few backlight LEDs leave sizable shadows near themselves on the edge of the screen, which is very noticable at lower luminence. Despite a thick bezel surround, the screen will occasionally register a touch while holding the device without contacting the screen--I suspect the bezel is clamping to the screen in my grip and that is being registered as a touch.

On the plus side, the DPI is great and the price was cheaper than the Kindle. I also don't need to muck about in Amazon's walled cesspool. Unfortunately Kobo has stopped selling the Glo HD directly because they're segmenting their market and moving the 300DPI screen to a higher price tier.