Thread: Should I get the Touch or the Keyboard?
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Old 07-23-2012, 11:11 PM   #43
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Originally Posted by Simon Taylor View Post
bad experience with Kobo Touch - no support LinuxMint 13 64-bit and... after hours of searching for fixes, screen became unresponsive... going in for a refund... should I invest in a Kindle Touch? When you say LinuxMint 13 compatability, is that out of the box? at Amazon registration? Kobo only seems to work after registering it and getting the desktop... advice appreciated.
Sorry, I don't understand. What do you mean by Linux Mint compatibility? The Kindle Touch (all Kindles, actually) interact with the computer via USB, either acting just like an external USB drive or (if you're into that) as a networked device. There's no need for drivers or anything, both of these work out-of the box on Linux.

In fact, if you only want to read, and all your books are from Amazon, then you don't even need a computer at all.

Are you saying that the Kobo requires some kind of (presumably) Windows application to even be able to use it?
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