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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Australia
Device: Blackberry Playbook, Sony 650, Kobo Glo, H2O, Aura One, Forma, Libra 2
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Well, I've got both the 650 and the Glo, and I'm not sure that I would bother with a Kobo again if Sony puts out a reader with light built in.
You've both articulated the issues as you see them, and I'll state a couple that are a pain in the a for moi!!
Notes
Trying to get a book endowed with Notes to acknowledge that a tap on the note means that you want to be taken to the notes page is an arduous task. Often you will get a page turn instead, or get a highlight or the dictionary - but not any action regarding the Note.
Then, should I be able to exercise the note funtion, I'll be blowed if I can get back to the originating page with any consistency. Yep - page turns, dictionary etc but no notice taken of the tap, or slight depress of the text, to get back.
Annotations and Highlighting
After you think that you've successfully save these and in due course exited the book - and then returned - you may or not not be able to find the notes/annotations. I've had them disappear, and then some - but not all - return.
I got the Glo because I need 2 book lights to adequately see the 650, and from the light point of view the Glo is great. Although I think there needs to be a 'tone' delimiter built in, because brightness isn't the issue as much as the lighting tone. For example, harsh and soft.
I've never had to reset my Sony, or boot it because it's hung. My Glo, in the 9 days I've owned it, I've paper clip started it twice already!!
The 650 is a wonderful workhorse, and with the PRS+ Enhancement, an excellent device.
I do like that Calibre has introduced for testing purposes the ability to import the annotations and highlighting from the Glo - if they still exist, lol.
Well, that's my 2 cents worth.
Oh, I forgot - the darn Kobo desktop software does not give you the choice to Sync or not to Sync. Therefore I've started a dummy Kobo account which I do not use to buy books with, and that's the account that I use as the Glo active account, which means that I only have to use the Kobo desktop when there's an OS update.
Having said that, I don't use Kepubs on my Glo - only Calibre cleaned and side-loaded books.
My playbook gets the Kepubs, but not my Glo. (Kobo is a native app to the Playbook)
Overall, at 7ins the Playbook is still by far the best device to read from, but it's a tad heavy, has only a 12 or so hour battery (typical of tablets), and the reading apps, including Kobo, do not have the full functionality of the dedicated ereaders. And I've never had a prob with getting the notes to work.
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