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AnemicOak · 07-22-2013, 08:27 PM

Some thoughts for you (sorry if I ramble a bit)...

The basic Kindle is quite a nice little reader unless you do a lot of typing for annotations/notes and searches on your reading device.

Since you're coming from a Kindle if you decide to go with a Kobo or something else make sure you look at a few books on one if you can. The look of things is a bit different and it can be tough getting used to the widows & orphans and long paragraph issues (this is for side-loaded ePub's and applies to others that use the Adobe RMSDK/ADE such as Sony), plus the unique Kobo quirks. Then again those may turn out to not be big deals for you but may be something to check into before you decide on one, for me even after reading 38 books on my Aura (my light stays off [well, it came in handy once]) I still find some of the Kobo issues take me out of the story while reading (but I've been mostly Kindle since 2009 & it took me a couple books to get used to that after a Sony). I'm thinking about going back to my Kindle Touch, that or using the Calibre plug-in to make sure I only load kePub's onto the Kobo.

If you really liked your Kindle Keyboard there are a lot of used ones available for that model as well.

07-22-2013, 08:27 PM	#13
AnemicOak Bookaholic Posts: 14,391 Karma: 54969924 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Minnesota Device: iPad Mini 4, AuraHD, iPhone XR +	Some thoughts for you (sorry if I ramble a bit)... The basic Kindle is quite a nice little reader unless you do a lot of typing for annotations/notes and searches on your reading device. Since you're coming from a Kindle if you decide to go with a Kobo or something else make sure you look at a few books on one if you can. The look of things is a bit different and it can be tough getting used to the widows & orphans and long paragraph issues (this is for side-loaded ePub's and applies to others that use the Adobe RMSDK/ADE such as Sony), plus the unique Kobo quirks. Then again those may turn out to not be big deals for you but may be something to check into before you decide on one, for me even after reading 38 books on my Aura (my light stays off [well, it came in handy once]) I still find some of the Kobo issues take me out of the story while reading (but I've been mostly Kindle since 2009 & it took me a couple books to get used to that after a Sony). I'm thinking about going back to my Kindle Touch, that or using the Calibre plug-in to make sure I only load kePub's onto the Kobo. If you really liked your Kindle Keyboard there are a lot of used ones available for that model as well. Last edited by AnemicOak; 07-22-2013 at 11:32 PM.