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Old 07-13-2014, 03:32 AM   #18
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Originally Posted by meeera View Post
A few things that may or may not be important to you:

- Font management. Out of the box, you can load your own fonts onto a Kobo. Some people find the Kindle fonts hideous. But not all people.

- Library books: no Kindle borrowing in Australian public libraries, as far as I know; whereas you can borrow epubs that you put through Adobe Digital Editions for your Kobo.

- Not a huge difference between store ranges, except for Amazon-exclusive books (I don't know if they're a dealbreaker interest for you). Kindle is generally a slightly cheaper list price, but the Kobobooks discount thread means that the savvy shopper usually can get cheaper books at Kobo.

- Collection management is far better on the Kobo, with the use of Calibre.

- Once you do have Calibre set up to manage your books and your collections, it really is trivial to install DRM-cleansing (which we can't detail here), which means that shopping anywhere is easy, and a later change in device won't make your purchases useless.

- Just to check that you know this, because it's not quite clear from your post: you factory reset at home with button presses, you don't need to take it anywhere.

- Both are decent devices and odds are you'll be happy with either purchase, if no dealbreakers (like the library thing) surprise you afterwards.
Good analysis! Just one nitpick though:

The Kindle has collections management that is just as good as Kobo, if you use the Kindle Collections plugin, together with Collections Manager kindlet for touch models. You do have to spend more time on it - instead of calibre just updating a db, the Kindle Keyboard must be restarted to register changes, and touch models need to be manually imported through the kindlet. But on the other hand, the Kindle supports nested collections! (broken in the later PW firmwares, but you can downgrade.)
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