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Originally Posted by joshmosh
The performance and sluggishness is now fixed while an option for page refresh intervals is now added. It is very quick now...this coming from someone who has used a K3. Although loading books is still a little slow, I can afford to wait the 4-8 seconds it takes to load a book. Waking from sleep on the other hand is almost instantaneous.
Typography is somewhat a preference. The Kobo looks more like a book whereas the K3 looks a little too bold and heavy to be a book. More options of course would be nice -- that way there is no arguing  |
I'd say the Nook was more of a rushed project, with ghosting and not enough time to develop a real web browser, and it was also rushed out for Father's Day, with the blatant Kindle copying of the default font. Plus, I doubt you'll see an option to change page refresh rates in the Nook anytime soon, if at all, since it was a major marketing point against the Kindle. I find the Kobo Georgia font better if I take it down a size, but the developers have already promised a greater choice of fonts, but I kind of like the lighter fonts on the Kobo readers, and after reading on it the Kindle fonts seem really bold (in my last K3 I changed the default font to Georgia for that reason, plus the Kindle fonts don't look like any books that I read).
I chose the best of both worlds--I picked up a Kindle with Special Offers, so I have a choice of bookstores, formats, fonts, and other options. I already bought a $10-off Amazon gift card, and I used the $10 Kobo gift certificate and got $10 cashback on the device, so they are both great values. Then I stick with my ipad for pdf library books and for low-light reading.