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Originally Posted by kacir
;-).
PocketBook is the best selling reading device in my country. They have stopped trying to compete in USA, because it is very difficult to compete against Amazon that sells e-ink devices for very tiny profit (*IF* they make profit on cheapest, add-supported kindles at all), making it up on books and content.
The OCR capability is awful. Camera is mediocre at best.
I do not have use for most of the apps that are available.
I do use their 14 e-book format support, SD card, nested directory library, user-installed fonts, dictionaries and, most importantly, configurability of the text presentation, such as fonts, font sizes, margins, hyphenation, justification, ...
I have owned a Kindle and other brands. You haven't even seen a PocketBook device.
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Let me reiterate:
I still don't care. I am more than happy with my Kindle. Which has dictionaries, nested collections structure, user-installed fonts,
unlimited format support via calibre, more onboard memory than I will ever fill up even without an SD card (read: a
HELL of a lotta books)...
And you still shouldn't expect conversations to gravitate around whatever the Pocketbook does. It is generally understood that when most people think about ereaders, they are not thinking about fringe devices, regardless of whether or not they are the most popular device in any given country that doesn't happen to contain the majority of ereaders bought and sold.
When I ask "what ereaders offer audio" it is among the less helpful answers to point out some insignificant device made by an insignificant manufacturer and used by a vanishingly small percentage of even knowledgeable ereader nerds, as though that is somehow supposed to demonstrate that Amazon should jump on the bandwagon and offer it too (again).