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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
Got to say, I'm really loving the Espresso color. Last night it was a very dark brown that looked almost black, now, in the daytime, it's a chocolatey brown. I love the warmer tone as opposed to just plain dull black (which I assume is what the Onyx would be). It also looks really nice against wood furniture. Most of my devices just scream "Hey, I'm an electronic gadget" (even the iPad, as elegant looking as it is). The Kobo Aura HD in Espresso just looks natural (despite the plastic). 
slightly OT rant:
That's another gripe I have with the popular readers in general. With most dedicated readers featuring at least 2GB (~1.5GB useable) storage and boasting about being able to hold 1,500 books or more, why is it that library management seems to be an afterthought on most of these devices? If not for Calibre, I shudder to think what managing books on these devices would be like. If free or inexpensive apps such as Stanza, Mantano and Marvin can implement good library management/organization, why can't Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Kobo? |
Or just provide access to the common file structure that most are familiar
with. I have no problem on my jetBooks dealing with over 8000 ebooks.
I have 6 pages of folders on my main menu. My SciFi folder has 120 pages
of its menu of alphanumeric sorted files/ebooks. The titles displayed on
the menu are (by my choice) in order by author then title. It is easy to
go to the "SciFi" folder in the main menu, then find say "John Wyndham,
Day of The Triffids" by using the "Jump to Page" function and guessing
where it would fall alphanumerically, then page forward or back to find it.
I can use all the file handling power of my PC to work with this sort of
file management and copy/clone a folder to my devices. Not so with
those you mention. Calibre does a good job trying to "Manage ebooks
not files" and in the process provides a means to do what the simple
OS file system already provides to those with devices that support the
normal computer file structure.
Luck;
Ken