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Define better. Eink, lightweight, and perfectly sized for books. What is missing?

• pjerem 5y ago
  Kobo and PocketBook readers have all those features and can be fed with every format you wish just by plugging them to any computer without conversion or by sending them anything by email, or Dropbox. And you can turn pages by pressing a good old button standing right under your finger.
• Johnythree 5y ago
  The essential page-turn keys.
• otherme123 5y ago
  I never understood the no-epub stance of Amazon. Some carefully edited epubs gets botched when transformed by Calibre. That said, at hardware level the Kindle is hard to beat.
  • leucineleprec0n 5y ago
    Dialing in the precise transformations needed for every copy got so annoying I eventually accepted the botching.
• chmod775 5y ago
  Nicer screens/features and hackability mostly. The Kindles so far are midrange hardware at best (and their pricing reflects that). Only the Kindle Oasis 3 approaches a resolution on which you can open a comic/manga/pdf full page and read smaller fonts. Entirely missing from the Amazon lineup (and where we're entering the $400-$1000 range) are ebook tablets. Having gone through a dozen different reading devices, I can say that I prefer Kobo devices. They admittedly have a special place in my heart for being fixable after I soft bricked one by messing around with the OS via ssh - their "internal" storage is an actual physical micro sd card sitting on the board that you can pop out after opening the device. A kind stranger on a forum sent me a good firmware and a 'dd' later I had a working device again.
• rualca 5y ago
  Not having to fight the device to stop it from phoning home might also be a feature that's missing from Kindle devices.