More Words, Deeper Hole

I've never actually seen a Kobo.  I got the Mini because our full-size iPad is five years old now, long before the Airs, and it's far too heavy for me for reading in bed.  I find the weight of my Mini acceptable for that.  As far as the display, it doesn't really bother me.  The new full-size Airs are lighter than my first gen Mini, and I covet one deeply, but it'll wait. I don't do much reading in bed anymore since I had cataract surgery.  I don't like wearing reading  glasses in bed because if I lay on my side, it distorts and makes reading harder.  I can play sudoku on my iPad without my glasses, so I play it until I get bleary and put it away and go to sleep.  I tend to do my reading on my iPad over solo lunches or at other times around the house.  I quite enjoyed it when we flew to Europe for a river cruise from Prague to Berlin, though I spent a lot of those flights sleeping.  I had LOTS of ebooks loaded from Gutenberg and from the Baen Free Library.

Also, my iPad has that 'blue night mode', but it doesn't make a difference for me.  I've never had a problem getting a good night's sleep when using my iPad right before closing my eyes.