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Originally Posted by Pookeysgirl
Have any of you seen what the wi-fi is for? Is it strictly for downloading books or can you browse the web?
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I would imagine the web surfing (if possible) would be rather clunky at best given you really only have a 5-way controller and 4 side buttons, very hard to type in a URL with any great speed. The Kindle3 has web browsing capabilities and I find that clunky, and it has a keyboard (the Kindle store is a great experience though). IMHO web browsing on an ereader is pretty poor. That said once you put in a few bookmarks it can be great for quickly checking regular pages.
For me ultimately the ability to surf the web or not isn't a selling point for me (especially wifi-only models, for me to use wifi I'd be at home and when I am at home I have my laptop).
I would be rather keen (and more interested that web surfing capabilities) to allow the Kobo to sync with multiple Kobo partnered bookstores, such as Kobo, Borders, Angus & Robertson. Appears to me the desktop software only allows for syncing with one of them, purchases through the others need to be done via ADE. Don't ask me why but I have found ebook prices varying between all 3 (despite coming from the same source).
Even though I have just bought a Kindle I'm still interested in the Kobo. Given the number of freebies I have got from Kobo it has well and truly covered the purchase price of one (yes you can DRM-strip and convert the file type, but the ease and simplicity of just syncing has become my preferred way).
If the wife can buy a new mobile phone because she doesn't like her old one (6 months old mind you) then I think I can buy another reader....just because
