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embryo · 03-05-2015, 05:46 AM

The advantages of koreader over nickel for me:

You can read using all your expensive screen area. (If I needed an empty border around my text I could bought a white reader.
With the bar at the bottom of the page (if you have it on) you can see the chapter structure of the book, the page number, the pages left, the battery percent and the time, all with one glimpse.
You can easily see all your books (even if they are thousands - try this with Nickel!, you have to wait for hours ...) in a folder view, or you can search for a book using Series, Author name, Title (if you using Calibre for your library)
If you read pdfs, you can crop and fit the pages, re-flow the contents, but thats something others reader do too (not nickel).
The most unique feature is that you can re-flow and change the text size even for text in 'scanned' pdfs (where the text is just a picture).
With Nickel you have no luck with pdfs at all.
Last but not least, you can speak with the developers here in the forum, report bugs, or propose features and there is a chance that you will be heard.

03-05-2015, 05:46 AM	#13
embryo Fanatic Posts: 529 Karma: 64554 Join Date: Aug 2013 Device: Kobo Glo, GloHD	The advantages of koreader over nickel for me: You can read using all your expensive screen area. (If I needed an empty border around my text I could bought a white reader. With the bar at the bottom of the page (if you have it on) you can see the chapter structure of the book, the page number, the pages left, the battery percent and the time, all with one glimpse. You can easily see all your books (even if they are thousands - try this with Nickel!, you have to wait for hours ...) in a folder view, or you can search for a book using Series, Author name, Title (if you using Calibre for your library) If you read pdfs, you can crop and fit the pages, re-flow the contents, but thats something others reader do too (not nickel). The most unique feature is that you can re-flow and change the text size even for text in 'scanned' pdfs (where the text is just a picture). With Nickel you have no luck with pdfs at all. Last but not least, you can speak with the developers here in the forum, report bugs, or propose features and there is a chance that you will be heard.