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Basically I want them to copy every feature of the Kobo Aura HD EXCEPT for its buggy software.
As long as I'm dreaming, I'll add switching to the latest latest Android OS as well and giving system-level access; letting me choose CoolReader as my eReader of choice.
Of course, none of this is gonna happen, both for practical reasons (Android) and monopoly reasons (just about everything else.) Kindle faces no real competition any more, at least in the US since its competitors are offshore and have distribution problem as well as either software problems (Kobo) or hw problems (many, many others).
Instead, they've been taking features *away* like user fonts (without jailbreaking, any way) and they might just as well have taken collections away since there are now about a million dialogue boxes which pop up when you try to add side-loaded books to a collection. Want 4gb and live in the US? Fuggetaboutit.
NOT having an sd card and and cumbersome collections are deliberate choices on their part because they want you to only use Amazon books on the device and store them on their servers. It's enough to make me buy a Kobo -- bugginess and all -- just to express my displeasure.
Kindle eReader is what happens when you've got no real competition.
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