I want to talk from two different sets of people who usually don't appear a lot here:
- Spanish People: Yes, there're some of us but here, but not a lot (obvious English reason
). You compare Kobo, Kindle, B&N and PB. I'm goint to compare you: Kindle (150€), Hanlin V6 (240-250€), Hanlin V5 (190-230€), Sony PRS-300 (190€+), Opus (185€+), Gen3 (240€+) and PB360 (230€+) Sorry, folks, no competition here, I'm afraid, unless you don't want to buy by Internet (so, you're limited to Sony, Hanlin and other like that, all of them 200€+) It's very difficult to justify the higher prices from a non expert point of view (mainstrem means that)
- Technical impaired people: More features? More customizable? More applications? Sorry, my device is for reading. I need ONE format to read well, a nice presentation for my library, an easy way to transfer my books and STABILITY in my device. Nothing more, nothing less. In general, people don't care about wonderful features for adding new applications (reading, do you remember?), standard fights (ePub? Mobi? What's that? Where can I buy? Where can I get? Can I read at my reader and my Palm?) or wonderful opensource developments (to change FW? FW, WTF? It works, doesn't it? )
Remember that, there's a lot of life outside the forums, I've read about a lot of people who have chosen an ereader, have decided the best format for their reader and they have disappeared. They don't know (and don't care) if there's a FW update, a hack, a softroot, a new model or something like that.
If I can get something at 150€ and I can get my books at the same price or less, it's sold.