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After having owned three kindles, I have switched to a kobo about a year ago. The kobo has many of its own problems, but it gets the reading experience right: i
by Derbasti 12y ago
After having owned three kindles, I have switched to a kobo about a year ago. The kobo has many of its own problems, but it gets the reading experience right: it uses (very un-aggressive) hyphenation, and the lock screen displays the book cover.
I miss going on Amazon, clicking some button, and immediately start reading a new book. Now that's a multi step process that involves a computer and a DRM removal tool. But the reading experience is easily worth it for me.
- te_chris 12y agoCame in here to say this, but I just use the Kobo store so it's not that different to the kindle experience sans-3G. I love my Kobo Aura HD, great piece of hardware.
- stormbeta 12y agoI've been seriously considering switching to a Kobo. I already convert/strip the DRM from all my books anyways, as I loathe the idea of ever being stuck in one ecosystem (and have switched before, from Kindle -> Nook -> Kindle). The new waterproof Kobo especially shows me that Kobo actually understands making a better e-reader.
- WalterBright 12y ago> the lock screen displays the book cover. That's almost right. It should display the last page read!
- kawsper 12y agoThe problem with that is (at least on e-ink displays) you wouldn't know if the device was on or off. Showing the book cover solves that :)
- WalterBright 12y agoEasy. It could be shown with a black border instead of a white one. Or any of innumerable other ways.
- codfrantic 12y agoIt can do both, it's up to you.
- throwaway41597 12y agoSo is it reasonably easy for one to step out of the walled garden? I've considered buying one (Kobo) but I've read comments saying it constantly wants to connect to wifi (after a factory reset which sometimes is required because of buggy firmware) and transfering files without using the desktop software is nearly impossible. I just want to read PDFs, text files, possibly HTML with some light CSS. I'd like sync to take at most 30 seconds of work. Would you recommend one? Any alternatives?
- 7Z7 12y agoI have a Kobo mini. I never use wifi, though when I have used it, it worked fine. I often buy books on the Kobo store and they appear immediately in the desktop app, ready to sync, which they do no problem. For all other books I use Calibre which is perfect.
- Derbasti 12y agoCalibre is ugly, but it works well for me.