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Originally Posted by Crowl
So you'd basically like them to make it like the other ereaders that are not as successful as the Kindle.  |
I'd like to make it as simple as Sony made it. Sony and Calibre worked flawlessly to manage collections. In fact, it is so simple that all I had to do was change the series and/or tag and when I plugged in the Sony, it changed it if the eBook was on the Reader. It is just so simple and works so well. Kobo work with Calibre to manage collections though not nearly as easy as Sony. But at least it works. Amazon just doesn't work one bit without a jailbreak. Also, with Amazon, ther eis a chance that if you create collections with the WiFi off and later turn on WiFi that your collections could possibly be lost. The eBooks won't vanish, but your nicely organized collection could.
The Kindle (IMHO) is just too simple. It gives almost no useful settings for the reader. You have wide margins and wide line height and the smallest settings are too big. Then other settings are just really off-the-mark and too big for most people. he last ones being too big for everybody.
Then there is the really dumb idea of having publisher fonts off by default. Let the reader decide if he/she wants to see the embedded fonts or not. But unless there is a note in large unfriendly (they have to be hostile to make the point) letters about the embedded font(s), not many will check to see if there are embedded fonts.
The Kindle hardware is mostly not an issue (bring back the memory card slot). Just the software is. It's too simplistic with poor settings for what options there are. Cecelia (sp?) is a poor choice for the default font. It looks almost like a variable width Courier.