The Kobo Aura One is a big, thin, water-resistant e-reader

Kobo has announced the Aura One, a big new e-reader that’s thin, light, and water resistant. It goes on sale September 6th in the US, Canada, and will cost $229 and $249 in those countries, respectively. It will also be released that same day in a number of other regions like the UK, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Japan, and Turkey.
The first thing you notice about the Aura One is that it’s big for an e-reader. While Amazon used 9.7-inch displays on some of the early Kindle