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Originally Posted by Moloko

PRS-T2, Sony was the perfect reader for me too, it had all the things I needed and liked. Can you tell me why the dictionary on Kobo sucks? I'm mainly interested in the English dictionary, as that's the language I read most in these days, but are there other languages translations available (like French to English, German to English) like we have on the PRS's? I took a look at the other e-readers available (Poketbook, Bokeen, etc) but the reviews and general opinions on them aren't stellar.

Additionally, how are the footnotes handled on the Kobo (can it even handle them without tweaking things in Calibre/Sigil)? I tend to read a lot of history books, which are usually loaded with footnotes so that would matter a lot. I think that on the Kindle that doesn't tend to be an issue.

The newer models of Kindle (but not my Touch) are supposed to handle this very well, yes. I have heard of no complaints getting them to show, it does not require updating old books... It recognizes the link and turns all text between the target and the next backlink into a popup.

Regarding collections/shelves: on my PRST1 I have the books organized in collections by tags. I don't tend to assign different tags to the same book, just throw them in general categories (eg history, mystery, literature, mythology, etc.). I know there's a thread on how to create collections/shelves on the Kobo. Now that I know that's impossible to do that the way I prefer (Calibre) with the Voyage, that makes me look more towards the H2O.

About the price difference: it looks like the Kobo was dropped from all previous sellers in my country, so I would have to order it from abroad. The Kindle will be brought in, I'm sure, only that it's going to be available later (perhaps around December if not early next year). As I mentioned before, I'm not in a huge hurry, but I would like to get it around December - January. For any of them I would have to order it from abroad and with the shipping and taxes they'll both end up being expensive. Which I don't mind, it's not like I'm changing e-readers every week. However, I'd like quality and ease in use.

Indexing won't be an issue either. I would surely love to use the reader as soon as possible, but I can wait until everything's done even if it takes a few hours. Does that happen though each time you add a large amount of books or only the first time when the database on the reader is built? Can you search through categories or through the entire list for certain titles on both Kindle and Kobo though?

On the Kindle, books show up immediately. It takes a little time for them to index for inside-the-book search, but in the meantime searching will still match on the title and author. (You will see a search result with no number next to it, indicating that there are no hits from inside the book.)

It feels more and more like actually downgrading than upgrading to a new e-reader...Sony really had us spoiled with all the options and extras. Oh well, I really need a front lit reader as my fiance is tired of going to sleep with the light on

Both Kobo and Kindle have earlier ereaders with frontlights. Maybe take a look at one of them? The PW2 should be pretty much identical to the Voyage, except with a jailbreakable firmware version, the older screen which is still pretty good and no page turn buttons. It even shares the same processor, from what I've heard.

I would get the PW2 except I prefer the physical home button.

ETA: on my current reader I just sideload books via Calibre. The only thing I'm modifying in Calibre are the book covers and metadata. I don't tend to change the spacing, margins, fonts, etc as I'm a fairly not picky reader - as long as the text is readable I don't particularly care for that. I think that in all these years I only modified 2 books that were a complete mess due to changing the format. They were older history books of one of my professors that the Uni scanned and converted in ePub, so obviously they were unreadable without the tweaks. So I'm not too keen on having to deal with modifying every book to make it readable but I don't mind small issues (that for me are related to margins, headers, etc).

Does it count if you have to convert the format? other than that, the Kindle does not require any special treatment in my experience.