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Originally Posted by uppon2
Thanks for all of the feedback, everybody. Luckily, I use a laptop for university and much prefer to have something extremely fast, with an external mouse where I can do all of my copy/paste and highlighting!
Are there any discounts or coupons to get the H20 cheaper?
Based on the comments, I think the H20 seems like a better buy for me, as I really only want it for reading books and the occasional PDF.
It is really a shame that there is no speaker, as I like to listen to audio books and music. Nothing I can't handle on my phone, though.
There was one person in the forum, eschwartz, whom I would like to hear from, as his points on the Kindle seemed very passionate. I am 87% set on the H20! -
It's a shame my country only has the KPW2 and Aura HD right now. I can not test yet. Not until February for the latter, at least. |
Hello.
As far as PDF support, you will want to use
KOReader anyway, which runs on Kindle and Kobo.
Since you are expecting to get the PW2 Kindle if any, jailbreaking shouldn't be a problem. I don't know of any reports that they shipped with the latest firmware, they will ship with the firmware they were made with, and then receive an OTA update when you connect WiFi. See
HERE for what to do if you decide to get it.
You mention audiobooks. If that's really something you are interested in doing with your ereader, the Kindle Touch is pretty much the only major ereader that has audio, you might be interested in finding one used/refurbished. It happens to be extremely hackable, mostly because it no longer receives updates. (Yeah, I'm just devastated it doesn't get Goodreads integration.
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I happen to prefer the Kindle Touch over the PW1/2 -- it has a physical home button.
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Originally Posted by uppon2
Hello everybody. This is my first post; actually this is my first time even visiting this forum. I currently have an ereader that you are all obviously jealous about  , the iriver Story (original, not WiFi and not HD) See here for the specifics. Now all the jokes are behind us, I am looking at either the Kindle Voyage or the Kobo Aura H20 as a replacement.
Please excuse my ignorance but can somebody like-minded please confirm my
assumption: (hypothetically speaking) Kindle is like Apple and Kobo is like Android or at least Microsoft? - I am an Android user and can not stand the limitations of iOS. After a little bit of research, it seems that Kindle falls on the other side of my liking in some respects. |
The only thing really stopping you from doing whatever you want on the Kindle is gaining root access, which at least used to be pretty simple.
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- Slow. I mean REAL SLOW!
- Complex navigation
- Lack of WiFi and what comes with it
- Lack of touchscreen
- Build quality and design
- Disgusting GUI and rudimentary options and menus
- PDF files were sometimes impossible to navigate
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The Kindle is designed simply, to do one thing and do it well with the minimum of fuss. It is not complex at all, in fact, JSWolf might say it is TOO simple.
Rudimentary options, eh, who cares about that so long as it has the right ones. Maybe you cannot squeeze every inch out of the screen, like you can with the Kobo, you'll have to decide whether that is something you care about. Personally, I'm happy.
The cleanliness of the UI is something I value.
The Kindle's homescreen is, conveniently enough, the Library view, allowing you to sort by author/title/recent/collections as you please, and knowing that will always be the first thing you see when you go Home. Apparently you can use davidfor's useful Kobo Utilities plugin* to permanently dismiss whole classes of unwanted tiles, but I believe you are still limited to Recent (of whatever type) tiles, and it sounds as though, for example, you cannot keep the collections pinned in front -- which is something I do on the Kindle. The whole jumping around thing, from what I've heard, makes me uneasy -- my ereader is a library of books and that is all I want on the homescreen.
(* -- Because, you know, I should really have to run software on my computer just to get basic functionality out of the UI.)
Fun fact -- the Kobo has to process books before they show up on the device, which can take a while.
The Kindle shows them immediately, but you cannot search them until they are indexed.
So in general, my impression about Kobos, from what I've heard, is that the UI and firmware is a little buggy and all over the place.
On the other hand, the Kindle does not offer much customization in how the book should look, not a lot of font/size/margin/spacing choices at all,... but that is not what I am looking for, so I prefer it that way. My Kindle has never ever crashed
except sometimes when running a 3rd-party browser hack. The Kindle firmware has a much better reputation for stability than the Kobo.
The Kobo having customization, the Kindle having simple stability, those two might actually have something to do with each other.
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Originally Posted by aceflor
None that I can recommend. Pocketbook are horrid and not reliable. The Onyx T68 has, but it is more of an andoid tablet with e-ink than an e-reader with android.
If Audio and PDF are important, you should get a tablet.
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I would generally tend to agree. On the other hand, if it is only for occasional use, it is probably more helpful to get a dedicated ereader and make do.
The Kindle Touch is a great ereader, very reliable, which can do audio in a pinch. Keeping in mind that audio on a dedicated ereader is probably never going to be wonderful.
As for PDF, KOReader does a pretty decent job.