KoboSage | eReader | 8” HD Glare Free Touchscreen | Waterproof | Adjustable Brightness and Color Temperature | Blue Light Reduction | Bluetooth | WiFi | 32GB of Storage | Carta E Ink Technology

I love this E-reader. Now that I have a new job I can splurge a little and treated myself to buying a reader. And it's everything I hoped for and more. The font customization is excellent, you can install additional ones downloaded online. The right font for you will make reading MUCH MORE enjoyable and not tiresome, trust me. I downloaded the Atkinson Hyperilegible font set, and it's just soooo smooth for your eyes. I decided to plow through the Game of Thrones series to be my Kobo's hazing, and trying to read those books in the published font just feels tedious and punishing when I can finally pick and choose. Obviously font sizing, margins, line spacing, it has everything to make it just right for you.I got this over the Kindle because I have a library card and can just load stuff for free from there if needed. It has its own bookstore too if you need. But, I just download EPUB files from annas archive website - google it, not sure if links are allowed in reviews. Theres a huge reddit compilation of where to source any type of reading material and audiobooks you'd want. You can load the Kobo through a connected online drive like google or overdrive, etc. its 32 GB, and unless you cram it with hundreds of audibooks, I have no idea how many books you'd need to run out of space on this.Not that most people would ever need, but I wonder why they didn't put in a SD card slot too. Theres ample room on this nicely sized device.The dictionary function is awesome, I had no idea how much of an extensive vocabulary GRR Martin employs. All you do is hold down the word - and voila, no internet required.Obviously you can change the color intensity from bluer to redder depending on the time of day or your lighting.And the battery last very very long if you keep the wifi turned off. If on, it curiously kills the battery within the same day, even on standby it just drains it. But you don't need it apart from storing more files.I havent tried udiobooks, not that I really cared for that, i typically listened to those on my phone on walks, or long car rides, etc.But, being a bit of a niche brand I suppose, finding covers and screen protectors at least on amazon is very limiting. Maybe by design since its a Kindle world.I found only ONE screen protector option here that was shipped from Germany. At least you knowthat's quality and is designed to actually last you, making up for the steeper price.It charges fairly quickly. Basically, it does all you need a reader to do. Which helped eliminate my annoyance of holding heavy books and traveling will be a breeze now without lugging anything around. I can read at night with ease. I should have gotten this years ago.And don't worry about it being future-proof or whatnot, Just get it if you're on the fence. These are readers, there's not that much innovation going around for what you need it to do. Unlike phones every couple of years, which are proper handheld computers vs a very specific function in mind device.

This is my first non-Kindle reader. Prior to the Sage, my most recent reader was a launch day Kindle Voyage from 2014 that's still going. I've kept my eyes open for new options in the Kindle line for a while, but nothing's really impressed me, and with the recent discontinuation of the Oasis and move to only buttonless readers, I decided it was time to explore other vendors' products.First, the good. The screen is gorgeous. It's crisp and clear, with great contrast, and has a fantastic light with a very wide range of brightness and temperature on it. It's also very responsive, with pages turning (even with a full refresh) nearly instantaneously. It's also nice to have a flush display rather than an inset one, as it means that dust and such doesn't get stuck in the corners. From my exploration so far, there's a vibrant community developing tools for customizations and integrations with Kobo readers, which allows for a lot of quality of life features, like automatically converting EPUB books to the Kobo's KEPUB format when copying them to the device, keeping the device's metadata up to date for manually-copied books, installing additional reader applications with more customizability, etc. Even just having EPUB as a native format is nice, since that's what nearly everybody (other than Amazon) uses.The OK is the buttons. They're decent. They'd be better if they were wider, and if the edge of the reader curved downward instead of upward. But they work just fine. Also, the official case can be kind of iffy with flipping pages when you open it.The bad is the battery life. This doesn't impact me too much personally since I don't mind charging it every day, but the battery life on this is dramatically worse than any other e-ink reader I've ever heard of. It's very possible to drain it in a day of reading even with the wifi, Bluetooth, and light all turned off completely. My understanding is that this is an anomaly in the Kobo line (which I was aware of going in), and that the other Kobo readers are more in line with typical reader battery life, but that's a huge drawback here.Overall, I'm quite happy with it. The worst I can say about it is that I wish the page turn buttons were a little different, and it really needs some work on the battery in a future revision. Aside from those things, it's a pretty nice reader that's fast, responsive, and highly customizable.