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Originally Posted by AlbertaCowboy
It's more becuase I'm a creature of habit, and changing from epub to mobi scares me ( :P ), as well as the fact that I have zero experience with Kindles. I'm relatively proficient with Kobo, having helped several co workers figure out the ins and outs of theirs, but no one I know has ever bought a Kindle.
Also, unless I'm mistaken, (which I likely am, not knowing about the newer Kindles) the Kindles have always had a lousy bookshelves or collections setup, which the Sony software excelled with. I'd rather not give up on my on device browsing via collections.
In all honesty, should I need to replace my 650 with another dedicated ereader, I'm sure I'll just find a T3 somewhere. They'll be kicking around in stores here in Canada for a while yet. I'm still seeing T1's here and there, so I'm not too too worried that they'll disappear overnight.
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Kindles are dead simple to use. Some might say that's the problem.
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Originally Posted by deddajay
[...] I've stuck with them since the 505 and would have continued to do so, even though I also have the Kindle PW2, which is nice, but has so many features I like on the Sony missing, in particular collections and the ability to display the cover of the book you are actually reading. I hate the Kindle's standby screen collection of pictures. [...]
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Regarding collections, I have never had trouble with them. What it basically boils down to is managing them automatically via calibre, right? (Easy on the Kobo and Sony.) The collections themselves are just fine, but it can be a pain in the neck to manage hundreds of books into collections by hand on
any device.
Fortunately, there is a lot of good stuff in the MobileRead Kindle Developers' Corner, like the Collections Manager Kindlet which can import a collections.json (created by a calibre plugin based on calibre metadata). Granted, it is more work than on the Kobo/Sony. On the other hand, I don't think Kobo/Sony can do nested collections (possible on pre-5.4.2 Kindle firmware).
And there is the screensavers hack, which does exactly what it sounds like. It has several modes, you can show shuffled pictures from the screensavers folder, or show the cover of the current book, or show the last stuff on the screen (confusing
). You can also toggle a personal info overlay.
NOTE: This requires that you don't have a Special Offers Kindle. There is nothing for circumventing something you paid less money in return for.
Point is, there's lots of things you can do with the Kindle beyond what Amazon put there.
For the really brave of heart, there is a terminal, notepad, IRC client, multiple browsers,
flash, KOReader (improved PDF reader, EPUB reader), and other exotic stuff!
