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Originally Posted by Stingo
I'm curious what you and the other posters consider Kobo shortfalls or problems. I know that the KPW2 screen is slightly better so I'm looking at other issues.
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My entire library, apart from a few exceptions, is EPUB-based, so I'm interested in EPUB-readers, of course.
My biggest gripe with Kobo is that their e-reader is an EPUB-reader, but all of the nice features such as Time To Read only work with their own EPUB-based format, called KEPUB.
Therefore, to reach feature parity with the Kindle, one would STILL need to convert EPUB files: to KEPUB this time, instead of AZW3. Switching to Kobo will gain me nothing; arguably, it'll set me back, because it seems that the KEPUB format is not as well understood (yet) as the Kindle AZW3 format.
The second gripe is that in one of the two formats (I don't know which one, on top of my head) the Kobo readers use a lot of space for a header title, and a footer displaying the page number. Also, the line height between lines seems to be larger than the Kindle. I don't want a reader to waste space by displaying a half an inch header and another half an inch footer.
The last thing which prevents me to buy a Kobo reader is that I often see problems in the Kobo forums, with different firmwares. A feature works... suddenly doesn't work.... works again... or a feature works, and another feature breaks. I don't want firmware updates to break the reader all the time, or to fix one problem but introduce another.
In the end, the decision was:
1. The Kobo has more customization, and is more easily obtained in the Netherlands.
2. The Kindle has less (no?) problems, and wastes no screen space.
For now, I chose the second.
(PS: Some stuff may have changed. I haven't been in the Kobo forums lately.)
@HarryT: You're right that font sizes depend on the size of the fonts in the book. However, there is no reason to create such a huge size jump between setting 4 and 5. I can fully understand why people would like to have a size 4.5.
Size 1 is tiny, in most books.
Size 2-4 is "normal book sizes", from small to larger / largish print.
Size 5 is immediately MUCH bigger than size 4.
If you need size 6 and larger... well... let's just say it's impossibly huge, even for someone with poor eyesight such as myself.