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xendula · 01-03-2014, 03:24 AM

I bought a front-lit Odyssey last Christmas, because of its onboards ADE support. I was thinking it would make it easier to get ePubs from libraries on an eink reader, but it was inferior to my PW1 at the time, so I returned it. The browser, which I would have needed to access lubrary websites, was such a joke. If you mistyped something in the very long URL, you had to delete the whole thing and start over again, and it was SO SLOW.

I do lust after the Kobo hardware, but customer service tales and software issues I hear about keep me away from that brand.

Love my kindles, though I am getting increasingly annoyed by the 90s web interface of the MYK page, and missing sorting options like tags and genres. The more books I buy, the more of a nightmare it is to sort through them all. I hope Amazon is reading this. They need to add cataloguing functionality to the website and their devices pronto.

01-03-2014, 03:24 AM	#2
xendula eBookworm Posts: 2,300 Karma: 4525746 Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: East Coast brrrrr Device: Kindle 4B/K ~ Nexus 7 ~ Kindle Paperwhite 1&2 ~ iPad Air	I bought a front-lit Odyssey last Christmas, because of its onboards ADE support. I was thinking it would make it easier to get ePubs from libraries on an eink reader, but it was inferior to my PW1 at the time, so I returned it. The browser, which I would have needed to access lubrary websites, was such a joke. If you mistyped something in the very long URL, you had to delete the whole thing and start over again, and it was SO SLOW. I do lust after the Kobo hardware, but customer service tales and software issues I hear about keep me away from that brand. Love my kindles, though I am getting increasingly annoyed by the 90s web interface of the MYK page, and missing sorting options like tags and genres. The more books I buy, the more of a nightmare it is to sort through them all. I hope Amazon is reading this. They need to add cataloguing functionality to the website and their devices pronto.