How does Kobo do it? I was under the impression that the lighting there isn't edge-lit, but rather backlit?
Works the same as a low end kindle. Reflection does it in normal lighting conditions. It also has a backlight, which almost never gets used. Really like the Kobo H20, especially with the open source koreader OS. If it was just a little bigger it would be more practical with large texts, though it's usable as-is.