![]() The Edition 2 has a great front-lit display and you do not have the blueish hues that plague other e-readers on the market, such as the Barnes and Noble Nook Glowlight Plus. If you have an older Kobo model with front-lit display, you will be pleased to know that the Toronto company has made great strides in refining their entire lighting system. Most e-readers these days have at least 8 GB of memory and for a company like Kobo that sells millions of books a year, it would suck not to be able to have them all available on your device, in addition to a your own collection of PDF files. I think that the low capacity storage will likely be a deal breaker for most people. There is no easy way to insert a higher capacity card unless you know how to use clone imaging software. There is a hidden SD card on the circuit board, but it powers the operating system. There is 4 GB of internal memory and with no option to enhance it via an SD card for your average user. If I had to guess, it is very likely they are using a 1 GHz Freescale i.MX507 processor, and either 128 MB of RAM or 512 MB of RAM. I have reached out to them for an official comment and will update this review once I hear back. Kobo has not disclosed the processor or how much RAM this device is using. These specs make it a very basic e-reader by 2016 standards and there are plenty of similarly priced alternatives on the market, such as the Kindle Paperwhite that has a resolution of 1430×1080 and 300 PPI. The Edition 2 features a six inch E-Ink Carta display with a resolution of 1024 X 768 and 212 PPI. The Kobo Aura Edition 2 on the other hand has a sunken screen and not an edge to edge display. The screen had a flat plastic panel, featuring an ‘edge to edge’ display without a raised border found in predecessors. The Kobo Aura that was released in 2013 featured several improvements to its immediate predecessor, the Kobo Glo. ![]() It is an entry level device and very affordable. The Kobo Aura Edition 2 is the latest e-reader to hit the market and it is closer to the Kobo Glo HD than a true spiritual successor to the Aura.
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