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Originally Posted by RoxyJ
As a fellow Canadian I would suggest the new touch Kobo. I really like their "inteface" and how you can view the book covers.
They are Canadian, so you don't have to worry about the extra shipping and duty.
They also offer better book prices, and they frequently offer discount codes. If the new kobo had been out when I purchased my kindle, I would have chosen the touch kobo.(at the time they just had the plain kobo with no perl screen or wifi, those were my only requirements).
The only difference I can think of is that Kobo may not have as many self-published books as amazon, and amazon seems to be developing their electronic offerings (like music, movies, apps etc...) if that's something you may want to take advantage of, you will have to decide if it's important to you that you keep everything together in one place.
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Well, as a Canadian with a Kindle, I'd have to say I prefer the experience, the quality, the interface and the availability of books on my Kindle. I do buy some books from Kobo for the odd occasion when they have something that isn't on Kindle (recent Giller Prize book, for example.) And it's a non-issue to convert those books to Kindle format.
Even though the new Kobo reader looks like a big improvement, my vote still goes to the Kindle.