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Originally Posted by trashHeap
My relatively ancient sony eReader finally died and I have been thinking of updating to a genuinely modern eInk device with WiFi and all the bells and whistles. I have been looking at various Kobo devices and I have a few questions I cant find answered in any reviews.
Does the "Reading Life" feature have parity across all the devices, or is it more or less featureful depending on the device? My understanding is that Reading Life supports Twitter integration. Does it do so on all current devices?
I understand folks manage Kobo with Calibre. Is it a mass storage device or is it MTP?
Do third party epubs/pdfs you side load get thumbnails and sit beside regular purchased content in the UI or are they quarantined seperately?
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I don't own any of the Kobo Android tablets so can't speak to them. I do use the Kobo app on my Nexus 7 and iPad/iPhone but they are not my go to ereaders and I don't use any social networking features. Twitter integration is not (currently) part of the eInk reader implementation so their only social connection is Facebook.
The eInk ereaders show as a mass storage device when connected to your computer.
I have very few Kobo purchased ebooks and my sideloaded content get the same thumbnails, ability to search, etc. that Kobo content does. There are some differences in how they are displayed since sideloaded epubs and pdfs use the Adobe RMSDK reading engine while Kobo's content uses the Access NetFront reading engine (much like looking at a web page with two different browsers). Though you can rename an .epub file to .kepub.epub to use the ACCESS engine, you will not get the full statistics package since Kobo removed that capability due to some strange numbers being displayed for sideloaded .kepub.epubs.
And yes, Calibre is one of my favourite applications along with Sigil for editing epubs though Kovid Goyal is getting the editor in Calibre to the point where I may be dropping Sigil.
Regards,
David