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Originally Posted by ScalyFreak
Having followed this thread, and the Kobo forum in general, I'm starting to reconsider whether I really want a Kobo Touch (I want a back-up reader for my Sony).
Bugs are annoying but a forum filled with complaints about them won't stop me from considering a device. I work in computer tech support. I know that 98-99% of customers have no problems with their device and that's why they stay silent. They're not going to come here and post ecstatically about how they are thrilled that their new eReader works as advertised. The population posting here is not representative of the entire Kobo-using population, and to think that the user experiences posted here are typical is a mistake.
But when I see complaints that a device is lacking in features, that makes me sit up and take notice. Particularly features that existed on the previous generation the company released. I've seen Kobo owners post here and wish for the ability to have multiple bookmarks, or an in-book search function. Unless I've misunderstood, the options to sort and organize the library are very limited, as is the ability to have multiple books open at the same time.
And not having any of those very basic features makes me pause, and start looking at other brands for a back-up reader.
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I own both the prs-650 and the Kobo touch. I've long since switched to the Kobo as my primary reader, despite the .... flaws. As far as some features, such as Bookmarks, annotation and text search, the Sony is miles ahead, no doubt. However, there are 2 (or 3 things) the kobo does really well that I find matter more when rading books. They are:
1. Much larger selection of font sizes. With the Sony, it was feast or famine. Small size on several books was just too small. Bump up the text size by 1 (of only 5 available sizes.) and the text was way too large. Before I realized it, I was actually scaling the font sizes on Calibre to make them look good on the Sony (rather than using the Sony to make any sized text book comfortable reading). This is no longer a problem on the KT, with 17 possible font sizes to choose from.
2. Tap to turn pages. As cool as swiping can be, over hundreds of pages, it does not compete to simply moving my thumb up for a tap.
3. Choice of font. And KT is the ony reader that I know of that lets you load any font of your choice on the device in case you don't like any of the defaults.