portability, usability, performance, screen, design

price, durability

75% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

usability, screen, portability, size, performance

price

89% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Very sharp screen, Bright and even built-in light, Useful reading stats

Costs nearly as much as a tablet, No standby sync

Dedicated backlight button ; Pocket for reading offline ; Very compact

Glass front attracts smudges ; Store can't match Amazon ; Over-emphasis on sharing

Crisp HD screen ; Ergonomic premium design ; 2 month battery life

Touchscreen not responsive ; Sluggish interface ; Hefty price tag ; Pointless social features

If you're happy to buy into the idea that this is the ereader for more sophisticated book worm, then this is the device for you. However, the screen is often desperately, throw-it-across-the-room slow and the book store is more expensive than its...

Although rather plasticky just like the Amazon Kindle, the Kobo Aura HD felt to us like a better quality product – even with all the snags and problems we experienced getting our own books onto it. In the end comfort of reading is what e-readers are...

Kobo is going after hardcore bookworms with its latest e-reader, the Aura HD, and it's hasn't scrimped on specs to win them over. With a Kindle Paperwhite-slaying 265ppi E Ink Pearl screen, storage e

The Kobo Aura HD eReader measures 17.5x12.7x1cm but the width is only 0.5cm at the edges. The screen is 13.5x10.5cm giving the notional diagonal imperial measurement of 6.8inches. The screen display is 1440x1080 made up of 265DPI. The unit weight is...

High quality E Ink display, ergonomically and aesthetically pleasing design, broad file types and image types support, fastest Kobo ereader yet

Still not as responsive as we'd like, touch commands can be sluggish at times

The Kobo Aura HD is by far one of the best ereaders we have used. Text is generally clean without pixilation and appears sharp and clean both in standard and backlit modes, making it pleasing to read.

The Kobo Aura HD is a bright, crisp and luxurious e-reader, but its price tag lets it down. There's a few nifty - yet meaningless - features on-board, such as social sharing and rewards for reading, but if you’ve got cash to splash and you can look...

Excellent screen ; Fast; good battery life ; Simple operation

Relatively thick

Kobo's new hero e-reader has an excellent E-Ink screen, and has the best specifications of any e-reader on the market at the moment. It's slightly thicker than its competitors, but that's really the only down-side to what is an excellent device for...