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Originally Posted by shalym
For a number of reasons--I like the hardware, I love the fact that I can send ebooks from other stores, or documents, or web pages to my Kindle cloud and read them on my device without ever having to plug the device into my computer. I love the fact that I can buy a book for my mother and send it directly to her device, as long as she is in an area that has 3G service.
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As far as Reader hardware goes, Kobo has one upped Amazon ever since the Kobo Glo and has not stopped doing so. You can grab web pages using the Kobo without needing to email anything. Using the web browser, you can put eBooks on a site such as Dropbox and download from there. You have to use WiFi for that. There is no 3G. But how often are you going to be someplace where you'd be away from WiFi for any length of time without knowing in advance? Not very often if at all. As for eBooks from other stores, you have more store you can buy eBooks from because it's ePub.
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I rarely have to fiddle with hardware settings on the Kindles, where on my Kobo and Lynx I seem to spend more time fiddling than I do reading.
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That's because there are barely any settings. You basically have few choices. With a Kobo, you have more settings so you can set things more to your liking. I found I did fiddle around a bit with the H2O settings. But now that I have them the way I like, I don't have to change things much. One thing I really like with the H2o is the font size settings. The gap between sizes is not too much. That was a problem with Sony and it's a problem with Kindles. I have the font set to the way I like most of the time, but if I am in bed reading, I might up the font size a little. I don't go from my reading size to too big.
You only fiddle when there are settings to fiddle with until you find the settings you like.