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Originally Posted by GhostKobold
I spend far more time reading on my device than I do looking around the library or staring at the home screen so for any of these three devices 99% of my time looking at them will be as ad free as my daughters kindle fire (without ads). I view them all as a valid option at $99 bucks with the nook and kindle obviously being epub friendly and if your going to side load a lot of books (or have a big epub library) the decision comes down to aesthetics, not cost.
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Well, my original point was that Kobo Touch and Nook Touch are very similar devices with Nook having some advantages like hardware page turn buttons and faster overall operation. That being said, Kobo is $30 more. That is my point, that's all. I am not arguing the definition of "advertising". Just saying that Kobo is now $30 more expensive for the same or slightly inferior device as Nook Simple Touch. I own Kobo Touch and am happy with it, but when I saw Nook Touch drop to $99 less than a month after I bought the Kobo Touch for $130 I wondered if this can be sustained by Kobo. After all, this is a consumer market place and two device with very similar features have to compete somehow. After making this point I was told that Nook shows suggestions from their store on the home page and Kobo does not. A few weeks after that the latest firmware for Kobo Touch put suggestions from Kobo store on the home page (at least by default). Kobo team is either complacent about the market or thinks that they have an advantage in Canada since Nook is not easily available there. That's all fine, but here in US Kobo Touch makes little sense in light of Nook Simple Touch. That is my point, not what is or is not advertising.