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Originally Posted by pickyaxe
I'm thinking of buying the H2O, but since it's replacing a device that has many frustrating problems (Onyx T68), I'm a little concerned when I read about people having freezes and what not.
How often do freezes happen? Is the device problematic when used outside (heat causing device hangs)? Any other issues you had to deal with?
Since I'm importing the device getting it fixed with Kobo is a big headache.
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One thing to remember is that very few of those without issues are going to be posting on-line. They're happily reading.
Hmmm... the only freezes I've seen have been rather rare and mostly when I am highlighting in a sideloaded epub. I've haven't seen over heating issues but then this area is not noted for heat. Lots of rain but not that much heat.
For me, the main item is to make sure that any sideloaded epubs are standards compliant. Use Flightcrew/Sigil and/or epubcheck before sideloading your ebooks. I've had commercial epubs including a fair number of library loans that had issues and when checked into, had oddities such as stuffing the entire ebook into a single file, styles that are not permitted in epubs though they are part of the CSS spec, graphics that have no size control so on a Touch they overflow the screen and on a Aura HD/H2O, they are tucked in the upper left of the screen, etc. The publishers are getting better at being compliant and the majority of commercial epubs are now pretty decent but you still find a lot of the older epubs that have not been re-edited.
Most of the other issues I've seen have been self-inflicted so I can't complain that they are Kobo's fault. Alternate readers, menuing software, etc. are fun to play with but tend to cause issues.