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Everyone even considering a PW should spend a few hours reading their forum here. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=209032 As annoying as Kobo's Software problems can be, it is possible to work around most of them and fix them manually. (sideload fonts with working italics fixing book css in sigil for better margins, etc.) But a crappy screen with pink and green blotches remains a crappy screen. :P |
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04-17-2013, 05:59 AM | #17 | |
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And of course as far as answering to what I said point to point, posting a won't cut it. Oh, and about kobo's software. You know how much time I 've spent debugging kindle's software, zero minutes. Boy would I love to spend half the time in these forums and with third party software to fix this, download that, sidestep the other for kobo to work. It's a no contest between the two devices. It's night and day. And the reason I insist and take the time to point this out, is because I 've been burned before by mickey mouse players in the ebook reader world (of course not mickey mouse players making 4 billion in revenue, so I was a bit more lenient with them). And as soon as I got my kindle, I thought, boy would I have made such a huge mistake (again) to go with the perceived advantages of some extra storage from kobo, and I 'd have spent my time debugging the software instead of using it. There's a huge buyer beware all over kobo devices. I would only suggest them to hobbyists. I am adamant about this. |
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04-17-2013, 09:25 AM | #21 |
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Yes, of course you are, however, in your eagerness to share your opinion, you failed to note that the OP didn't ask about your much beloved and unjustly maligned paperyellowishbluishpinkishwhite.
Perhaps you would find your exuberance more warmly welcomed in the 'which one should i buy' thread, where people tend to compare brands. Never adamant, always UNANIMOUS. Edited to remove quote of OP as to leave no doubt to whom my reply was directed. Last edited by david_e; 04-17-2013 at 01:19 PM. |
04-17-2013, 12:49 PM | #22 | |
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04-17-2013, 03:24 PM | #23 |
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Speaking as a Kobo Glo owner who hasn't had any hands on experience with much else:
Even with some of the firmware hiccups, I wouldn't hesitate recommending a Glo to anyone who's interested, especially if you live outside the United States. It's a solid reader with a plethora of features. My experiences with Kobo have been good and it's been fun to go along for the ride and see the entire package slowly mature and become more robust, even over the past 6 months. |
04-19-2013, 04:51 AM | #24 | |
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04-20-2013, 03:00 AM | #25 |
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I love mine. I have moved the bulk of my reading to the Glo. Never used the Sony this much. Still using the iphone for the 15 mins before sleeping.
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04-20-2013, 04:32 AM | #26 | |
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The KOBO hardware is really nice. The firmware though is of questionable quality. Have a look at some threads here and decide whether you are willing tolerate the bugs and ergonomic inconveniences mentioned. Depending on the way you want to use the device and the functions/features that are important to you, you might be completely happy with a KOBO or you might end up being constantly annoyed by some issues. One caveat: Do not buy a KOBO expecting that any bug will get fixed in the near future. They have a tradition not to release bug fixes but rather new firmware versions sporting a combination of (some) bug fixes with new features and new (and some old, re-appearing) bugs. |
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04-21-2013, 12:42 AM | #27 | |
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@guma, excellent post.
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a. With the light at it's lowest the contrast is as good as any eink screen of this generation. Nothing against amazon there. With a light at any other setting amazon has the best contrast and the closest to paper in screen qualityof any device on the market. b. The light does not have any issues whatsoever. Unless of course you have performed a product survey and would like to provide us with the results. The teething problems amazon had with the first month's batch of devices where quickly sorted out. Anyone can verify this with the latest reviews on the site. And it was never an issue anyway because amazon has a great customer service that you can keep sending kindles back until you had a good one. It does a huge disservice to other users who are looking to make up their minds to perpetuate this myth. c. Touchscreen. I agree it's not the best, it's by far the best. It's a proper capacitive touch screen, not infrared, with fully integrated pinch to zoom, double tap to zoom features. It's extremely responsive and it makes for the easiest selection and highlighting of text out of any devices. Anyone can check a side by side video of kobo and kindle doing text selection. If in your opinion of course it's not the best, you are welcome to tell us which eink device has the best touch screen. d. Yes it is the best software, by far. Again you might want to tell us which ereader you think has the best software. I 've had zero bugs since day one, seamless upgrades, cloud syncing of my notes, easy send to kindle over the air from my browser and my computer, great cloud, a fast browser with minimal hick ups, etc. etc. ... It's not just the best software on an eink reader, it's far and away the best software on an eink reader. Please don't confuse people here and get them to buy mickey mouse devices instead from mickey mouse companies. Kindle is second to none, and making a good effort close behind them is the nook, all the rest (sony, sadly included too, and I say sadly because it's hard to watch them drop the ball what with their potential), are lagging quite some way behind, and especially so the kobo, which is a laughing stock in terms of software development. Every other day I 've been using my kindle for the past few months, I 've been saying to myself, boy am I glad I finally bought an eink device I can really use and not debug instead, boy am I glad I didn't listen to some of these guys and didn't buy the kobo instead. Last edited by Fourl29; 04-21-2013 at 12:49 AM. |
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04-21-2013, 02:15 AM | #28 |
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Another Kindle troll...
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04-21-2013, 02:45 AM | #29 |
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yeah sure man, whatever...
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04-21-2013, 02:48 AM | #30 |
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Pretty much yes. Rather obvious when he joined Mobileread a short while back and had posted more in the Kobo forum than anywhere else. I don't think he has posted in the Kindle forum at all -- quick search says no. I also suspect that he has not read much in there since they seem to have quite a few people with issues with the Paperwhite and other Amazon Kindle products.
I did get a chuckle out an item on adding custom fonts to the Paperwhite. It's almost as simple as adding fonts to the Touch/Glo/Mini though an additional file called USE_ALT_FONTS is required to tell the Paperwhite to use custom font but the font naming is very similar to that of the Kobo (-Regular, -Bold, etc.). The author was not sure if this required jailbreaking a Kindle PW since it was already jailbroken. Regards, David |
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