I bought one of these. The Kobo Aura One is the largest e-reader that I could find that didn’t seem to be designed by aliens or completely broken in most ways.

So far, I like it. It’s just large enough where it doesn’t annoy me, though I wish it were a bit larger. It’s got a 7.8″ screen that, while not perfect, looks pretty good.

You can see in the photo at the right how large it is in comparison to the Tinker Bell-size e-readers that are mostly available. As you probably know, I find those completely unusable as I don’t like turning the page every 0.2 seconds.

It doesn’t work very well with PDFs, but I was expecting this. I will only use it with ePubs and the like. I also wish it had physical page turn buttons as I don’t really have any moisture on my fingers ever because I just don’t sweat much at all, so capacitative touch screens work very poorly for me.

However, at the price point and with what’s available on the market (which probably only actually serves about 40% of the possible market), it’s pretty good and I am glad I bought it.