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Originally Posted by HarryT
You mean "it doesn't meet your personal requirements", Jon. You have no idea whether or not it meets other peoples' requirements. Plain, Amazon do meet the requirements of a great many people, given their dominant position in the eBook market.
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I did comment on what wasn't quite right and I do think they are valid reasons.
For example, some of the comparisons are based on assumption and not actual facts such as battery life and page turn speed. Also, when saying the ecosystem is not as good on the Kobo, what was left out 100% was Overdrive. Living outside the USA, the Voyage is a poor choice for anyone who wants to read eBook via Overdrive and in the USA, some publishers only do ePub eBooks via Overdrive.
And the large amounts of wasted screen space on the H2O is not an H2O problem. If there is such, it's a problem with how the eBook is formatted. It's nothing to do with any sort of Calibre conversion or patching. On the Voyage, you do get large amounts of wasted screen space even if the CSS and XML of the KF8 eBook is perfect.
Also, saying that IR touch doesn't work well is wrong. I've used a number of IR based eInk devices with no problem at all.
It's things like this that make this comparison not as good as it seems.