This was accompanied with an angular back design, resembling crumpled pages of a physical book, used for added grip.

Battery life was estimated to be up to two months, assuming 30 minutes of reading a day and Wi-Fi turned off.

[6] The operating system was redesigned with the launch of the Aura HD, featuring a new library view and a new home screen.

[2] The main application, the digital reader, supports a variety of ebook formats: ePub, PDF, Adobe DRM, RTF, HTML, TXT, Comic Book Archive file, JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF, and TIFF.

[6] Highlighting, adding notes, and looking up definitions in the built-in dictionaries is also possible by long-tapping a passage in any part of the book.

Reviewers appreciated the larger screen,[5][7][8] the increased pixel density,[5][7][9] the ComfortLight,[5][7] and the abundant storage options.

[5][7] The pricing was the universal gripe: although many felt that the eReader was worth it,[7][9] they noted that it cost $30 more than the closest competitors.