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toddos · 09-13-2013, 01:27 PM

I went for "Other", because I'm waiting to see what Barnes & Noble do with the Nook. Supposedly they're going to announce a new e-ink reader this year, but it probably won't be until October or November.

As for the others:

Kindle - I don't like Amazon's continuing insistence on not using the de facto industry standard EPUB. I don't want to have to deal with converting my existing library to mobi/kf8 and all of the reformatting that will have to go along with that.
Kobo Aura - This one is very, very tempting, but then I go over to the Kobo forum here and read about all of the bugs that Kobo has in their firmware for their current devices and get scared.
Sony - Last year's hardware at next year's price. Seriously, WTF? It's a Pearl screen rather than the new Carta (that's definitely in the Kindle PW2, and I assume/hope is in the Aura) and there's not even a proper front light. It's as if they took the old Kindle3 lighted cover and built it into the reader. I've seen rumored prices as high as $180. This thing is worth maybe half that in a front-lit ereader world.

09-13-2013, 01:27 PM	#3
toddos Guru Posts: 695 Karma: 822675 Join Date: May 2010 Device: Kobo Aura, Nokia Lumia 920 (Freda)	I went for "Other", because I'm waiting to see what Barnes & Noble do with the Nook. Supposedly they're going to announce a new e-ink reader this year, but it probably won't be until October or November. As for the others: Kindle - I don't like Amazon's continuing insistence on not using the de facto industry standard EPUB. I don't want to have to deal with converting my existing library to mobi/kf8 and all of the reformatting that will have to go along with that. Kobo Aura - This one is very, very tempting, but then I go over to the Kobo forum here and read about all of the bugs that Kobo has in their firmware for their current devices and get scared. Sony - Last year's hardware at next year's price. Seriously, WTF? It's a Pearl screen rather than the new Carta (that's definitely in the Kindle PW2, and I assume/hope is in the Aura) and there's not even a proper front light. It's as if they took the old Kindle3 lighted cover and built it into the reader. I've seen rumored prices as high as $180. This thing is worth maybe half that in a front-lit ereader world.