04-21-2013, 03:11 AM | #31 |
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If the sabot fits, wear it.
Look at yourself. A poster who claims to be a Kindle owner, a poster who in his short time on Mobileread has posted more in the Kobo forum than all other forums combined. A poster who not posted in any of the Kindle and related forums. A person who claims there are no current problems with Kindles -- all the firmware has been perfected, the screens are perfect, etc. A poster whose posts seem to be undisguised evangelism for Amazon's Kindle readers. Someone who seems to believe that the rather frequent firmware updates for the Paperwhite are not really needed. After all, going from 5.2.0 to 5.3.0 after the first month of release was just keeping the programmers employed. The subsequent updates to 5.3.1, 5.3.3 and 5.3.4 between the November 2012 release of 5.3.0 and the current 5.3.4 release was again just done for fun. So what does that come to? 5 firmware versions in 5 months? As they say, if it walks like a troll, talks like a troll and smells like a troll, it is a troll. Regards, David Last edited by DNSB; 04-21-2013 at 03:14 AM. Reason: Toned down some content. |
04-21-2013, 03:14 AM | #32 |
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No offense, it's just that you only have 12 posts and the last two that I read were pretty vicious attacks on Kobo with lots of bias. Take a look at the recent video reviews from Goodereader. You can see that the new aura front light is just as good as PW if not better. Heck the original Glo's light had fewer complaints than the PW had.
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04-21-2013, 03:36 AM | #33 |
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Fourl29 might find this Aura/PW comparison enlightening. I don't know about him but I would take the Aura's PDF handling over the PW pinch to zoom any day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPFf...e_gdata_player Perhaps he can also find the night reading comparison where the Aura also outperforms the PW. |
04-21-2013, 07:50 AM | #34 | ||
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That's how I felt like during my first days here. To express how happy I am with the kindle, and its relative merits over the kobo. So what? It's a free country. Feels great that others aren't making the choices on what I post about for me. I am glad I didn't feel compelled to post in the kindle forums to esquire about an overgrowing list of bugs and general nuisances that I would have had I am quite sure with other devices. It feels great to be actually using a reader for a change instead of reading over forums to debug it. Feels like when I switched to os x from windows. If the shoe fits, the shoe is forgotten, to speak in your kind of parlance. Quote:
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04-21-2013, 08:01 AM | #35 | |
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Seriously, though, you become a member here the day Kobo announces a product that might be serious competition for the Kindle, and do nothing but criticize Kobo and praise the Kindle. It may be a coincidence, but you must excuse people for finding that hard to believe. The more so since you started out by accusing other forum members of being "shilling" for Kobo. |
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04-21-2013, 10:50 AM | #36 | |
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I still think quite a few here -although most certainly the minority- are paid shills from various companies. Or have some sort of vested interest or other. Nothing that's that much wrong about that, it's all over the web these days. I 've had other members accuse me of shilling for amazon, I don't mind. As if amazon would hire people to do such blatant marketing in forums. The fact that I registered close to the kobo releasing a new device and started criticizing it, has a simpler explanation. I 've been reading the forums on and off for a few years, and I happened to be reading some tech news site which reported on kobo's upcoming product. Which again brought me here to the mecca of ereaders, and I thought might as well register this time. And because I 'd almost got mislead the other time and bought the kobo glo, something I 'd had dearly regretted with much frustration brought over by their mickey mouse software and customer service, I thought I might as well get a few points across to forewarn others. There really is/was no contest between the glo and the paperwhite, and I don't know why I hadn't gotten that impression by reading the forums before my purchase. It seems if this thing was in part orchestrated by some, it was indeed very successful. The aura is another story, added ppi and real estate are very, very welcome to allow someone to put up with everything else that is poor otherwise, especially so the software, the customer service, the touch screen, kobo's store and, to a lesser extent, their light implementation. I am still probably going to buy a kobo mind you for the added screen real estate and the higher ppi. I 'd love to have a look at it. But I am 100% sure whenever anyone else comes up with a similar screen I 'll ditch it. |
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04-21-2013, 12:31 PM | #37 | |
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04-21-2013, 12:41 PM | #38 | |
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While, yes, the Kobo firmware does have it's problems (more than the Amazon FW), it's also more flexible. The Glo supports far more file formats and uses a standard format that allows you to purchase books from any store (of huge importance if you don't live in the United States). I've had my Glo since they came out and I haven't experienced any problems that truly got in the way of reading. It can be frustrating being a Kobo user, but if Kobo would just feature freeze and have 1.6 and 1.7 be pure bug fixing releases, they would easily be top dog for the Global market and be a real competitor in the US. I'm not here to play what ifs, though, and the simple fact that such die-hard enthusiasm for the KPW can practically only come from within the US ecosystem. |
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04-21-2013, 02:45 PM | #39 | |
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You aren't making arguments, you're sharing what may or may not be your own personal, anecdotal experiences. In your first few posts you did have a reader, you didn't have a reader, but were getting one, blah blah blah. No matter how anyone looks at it, some of these posts were dishonest.
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Nice how you inadvertently admit to making attacks, though claim they aren't vicious. What other kind of attack is there, if not vicious? Mediocre and amateurish leap to mind. |
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04-22-2013, 02:19 AM | #41 |
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I'm interested in the original topic and the added question Glo or Aura. Can we please leave Kindle out of it? That wasn't in the original question and nor is it in the question of Glo or Aura. Can we please stick to the topic?
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04-22-2013, 09:33 AM | #42 |
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As to the original question I think the Glo is a solid choice. My Aura is on the truck for delivery today, woohoo, so I can't speak about that device just yet. Since the PW was brought up, I will say that mine has been solid as well. It has a great screen and reading on it is enjoyable. While I enjoy it there are little things that, to me, make the Glo more enjoyable.
I like page numbers on sideloaded content, not location with some crazy number that means nothing to me. I like seeing how many pages left in the chapter I am reading on KePubs and I like tapping on the % read to find out how much time left in the current chapter, how long it should take me to read the next chapter, a graph depicting chapter lengths for the book, and time left to complete the book. I have never had an issue with my Glo. The screen has been responsive the software is nice and it does what I need. Customizable fonts are important to me because of my eye site. I was able to find a somewhat sweet spot on my PW, never able to find one on my Nook STG, but the Glo has given me the controls to find the perfect configuration for my eyes. I can't speak of Kobo's customer service as I have not had the need (knock on wood). I can say that I have had mixed results with Amazon. When I bought my wife a 2nd gen Kindle it had an issue with the page turn button. I called and they overnighted me a new one. I shipped the old one back. Fast forward a year and my card gets hit for 369.00 and I call to ask why. They said I failed to return the other Kindle. I gave them the RMA number and date of the email stating they had received the old Kindle and Amazon apologized. Six weeks and several phone calls later they returned my money. Wow now that I think about it I spent less money on two Auras then I did on that stinking Kindle. Oh well sorry about getting off topic. The Glo is a solid performing eReader that has become my go to device for consuming books. Hopefully, if you decide to go that route, you will be like me and have no problems nor complaints. Mine is but a humble opinion and I would say keep researching to see what offers the features that are important to YOU and try to get your hands on one to take for a test run. There is no right or wrong device for everyone, there is only the right or wrong device for you. In today's world you are going to be bombarded with bias and fanboys and shills. When you can cut through all of that I am sure you find the reader that is right for you. Sorry for the long diatribe. |
04-22-2013, 10:47 AM | #43 |
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Here is a poor pic of all three with the same book in the same font. It was a freebie in the stores so no conversion or sideloading.
PW then the Aura then the Glo |
04-22-2013, 11:15 AM | #44 |
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Thanks for the picture
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04-22-2013, 11:19 AM | #45 |
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Now that I have set up the Aura to my liking. My opinion would be if you can spare the extra cash the get the Aura. I am going to use my Glo as my traveling eReader but the Aura will be my main device. It is whiter, sharper, and snappier that any reader on the market that I know of. Just read through a few chapters of a book I was reading on the Glo and I am guessing the battery life is going to be much better considering I am averaging four less page turns a chapter. I just wish the had used the soft touch plastic to give it better grip. Oh well, guess I will have to order the sleep cover next.
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