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Originally Posted by Andy Griffith
Thanks for the replies, much to consider.
I was under the impression that readers such a the kindle and nook that have wifi/3G allowed one to download ebooks from most any website directly to the device, not just kindle/amazon or nook/b&n? Assuming the format is accepted by the particular device.
Increasingly I'm wondering how big of a deal the whole wifi/3G thing really is in my case. Sounds like I will be using the laptop to manage the incoming ebooks and then load them to the device most of the time anyway. I guess I'm a little different in that I don't feel an overwhelming need to keep a 1000 books stored on the device at any given time. My days of international travel are behind me and these days my wife and I mostly go camping in the pacific northwest at various locations of which wifi/3G is only available maybe 40% of the time anyway. And when it is available (we hookup through our droid phones that act as a wireless router) we will have our laptops with us as well as the reader.
What is 'sideloading'?
The ergonomics thing is interesting as I actually preferred the kobo with its slightly larger frame size vs the nook but not as big as the kindle. And the kobo had that great rubbery texture. But reading through the kobo forum the issues seem a bit troubling. While I love the small light size of the nook, it almost feels too small to me, if that makes any sense at all.
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Sideloading is when you attach a cable from your computer to your reader and use either Calibre or a file manager to move the book file to your reader. I believe that all of the readers show up as an external drive when connected to your computer.
I, personally, have never missed 3G or WiFi access. I have never been someplace where I had to load a book immediately. It's easy enough to use Calibre and Calibre converts them and organizes them to suit me. Should I have a reader with WiFi, I would turn it off.
Have you checked with the libraries where you camp, to see if one of them would give you a card if you showed up in person?
My impression of the Kobo is that there were lots of bugs in the firmware when it was released. Kobo is actively releasing updates, so those problems may be decreasing with time. As I recall, it was the Kobo that only permitted making collections on the device, something that is much more painful then letting Calibre both create the collections and add books to them.