Kobo Aura One Unboxing Video

August 26, 2016 By Michael Kozlowski 16 Comments

The Kobo Aura One is the worlds first 7.8 inch e-reader and it features a high resolution display, a dedicated Overdrive App, a waterproof design and it automatically adjusts the temperature of the screen to make it easier to read. Today, Michael and Peter will unbox the Aura One and show you everything that comes in the box.

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Karl

Looks great, except for the stupid James Patterson cover as the powered-off screen. I hope you can change that — or does it cycle through a selection of book covers?
jpaustralia

lol
karamath

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mrg2k8

Still waiting for that massive, in-depth review you were writing about a few weeks ago. I hope it will be posted before the pre-order date of August 30.
DisqusMyth

Clickbait title. This is not an unboxing video. Unboxing requires a sealed pristine unit, not one that’s already been opened previously, handled, and placed back in the box.
Reader

One reason for a bigger screen is for easier reading of PDFs. I just compared reading a PDF, which was all text, on a 6″ Original Nook – which is 7 years old IIRC- and a Kobo Aura HD with a 6.8″ screen. I constructed the PDF from a Word doc to have a bold, size 14 font. The Original Nook shows the PDF with very small margins, with the font large enough to read comfortably.
The Kobo Aura HD shows the PDF with very large margins, resulting in a size 14 font now having about a size 8 font. All the zooming is a pain in the neck and doesn’t give a satisfactory rendering of the PDF doc that the Nook did on first try, Conclusion: unless Kobo cleans up its act on PDF docs., I don’t see the point of purchasing the Kobo Aura One.
vicente

Doesn’t have the Aura HD improved its management of pdf with the latest updates?
Reader

Per your suggestion, I updated my Kobo Aura HD. Unfortunately, the PDF experience is just as klunky/bad, as far as I can tell. There are still very large margins resulting in a very small font.You still have to zoom to get a larger font. As before, zooming to get a bigger font, but still have all the page inside the zoom, still results in a much smaller font than the size 14 font that the PDF had. Zooming is good if you have a graph or picture to enlarge. However, it is extremely klunky/awkward/user-unfriendly to use zooming to get larger font.

Kobo should try purchasing B&N’s PDF-rendering software.
Reader

By enlarging the PDF to 24 font from a Word doc w 24 font, I was able to get a reasonable size font on the Kobo and with a small zoom. The zoom works mainly to reduce the huge margins at this stage, The conclusion is still that Kobo’s PDF rendering is very klunky/bad/awkward/user-unfriendly/ puro desastre. Que quilombo.

While Amazon’s PDF software is still not as good as B&N’s for text PDFs, Amazon has improved. For example, after a somewhat recent Amazon update, I noticed that the margins on a PDF were greatly reduced.
nobody

https://sites.google.com/site/pdfscissors/
Reader

Still very small font with margins, even when I eliminated all margins on the PDF. Even then, there was a substantial margin on the Kobo. Kobo PDF software is a disaster. That all. As Kobo will make little to no money from PDFs, Kobo sees no incentive to improve its PDF software. My previous experience with PDF crops is that they made no difference w B&N, but could help w Amazon. B&N’s PDF reading software is superior to Amazon’s, though.

The only way to go w PDFs on Kobo is to invest in PDF-EPUB software, it appears.
Pixilicious

Kobo has the ability to run KoReader which handles PDF’s beautifully. Give it a try on *your* Kobo and you’ll be impressed.
Pixilicious

…and this is important in your life … because??
Reader

I will give it a shot. Thanks for the suggestion.
tracey cross

Goodereader are sent review units to try. These have previously had ebooks uploaded to them so they are easier to review when making videos. Does it really matter that you see a seal broken? I’m very grateful for the videos as they help me decide what to buy in the future. If that doesn’t interest you then I’m sure there are other “unboxings” on YouTube.
tracey cross

When you power off a kobo it displays the cover of the book you are currently reading. You can turn this of in the settings though. I much prefer the cover art than an ad from Amazon greeting me everytime I go to read.