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AlexBell · 01-01-2013, 12:43 AM

I'm thinking of buying a Kobo Touch, mainly for testing ebooks I design for the MobileRead library and for the small presses in my signature line. I produce the ebooks in ePub format, and (eventually) they work well on my Sony PRS T2 and (with some effort) on an iPad2. Apart from my wife's reluctance to let me add another reader to my stable I have three or four questions:

- Does anyone have experience with the Sony line and the Kobo line? How do they compare?

- I've been told by a reliable source that navigation links for chapters etc don't work on a Kobo if the ebook has been produced by other than Kobo. Is this so? Has anyone else had this problem? If so, how do people who design ebooks get around the problem?

- I've been told by a friend that the Kobo software does not work with Windows 8. Has anyone else had this problem?

01-01-2013, 12:43 AM	#1
AlexBell Wizard Posts: 3,413 Karma: 13369310 Join Date: May 2008 Location: Launceston, Tasmania Device: Sony PRS T3, Kobo Glo, Kindle Touch, iPad, Samsung SB 2 tablet	I'm thinking of buying a Kobo I'm thinking of buying a Kobo Touch, mainly for testing ebooks I design for the MobileRead library and for the small presses in my signature line. I produce the ebooks in ePub format, and (eventually) they work well on my Sony PRS T2 and (with some effort) on an iPad2. Apart from my wife's reluctance to let me add another reader to my stable I have three or four questions: - Does anyone have experience with the Sony line and the Kobo line? How do they compare? - I've been told by a reliable source that navigation links for chapters etc don't work on a Kobo if the ebook has been produced by other than Kobo. Is this so? Has anyone else had this problem? If so, how do people who design ebooks get around the problem? - I've been told by a friend that the Kobo software does not work with Windows 8. Has anyone else had this problem?