[MariusMasalar]

To me, the only thing about the ads that sucks is that they aren't the cover from the book you're reading, like on a Kobo. I really love that live cover screensaver thing.

As for send-to-Kindle, I don't know that I'm missing the point...I know that it's designed for sending third-party books and documents, but I'm talking about sending articles with their native browser extension, not the email address. It formats the article for the Kindle and doesn't use the browser. I don't care about the hyperlinks much (I just ignore them).

Not sure what you mean about kindle.amazon and the notes. Exporting those clippings/annotations doesn't happen from the site, they exist as a simple .txt file on the Kindle itself, which is super easy to copy off the device and save or use elsewhere. To me, the website is useful because I don't make notes, I just highlight certain passages, and it's very easy for me to copy the one I want from the site whenever I need it for something. I also keep the .txt file saved to Evernote.

As far as Pocket goes, I actually use it alongside Evernote. I send articles to Pocket, read them there, and whichever I want to keep get sent to Evernote for permanent storage, so for me being able to do that reading seamlessly on the Kobo is handy. I archive whatever I don't want to hold on to and the next time I'm on a smarter device I just shoot the keepers to Evernote.

I'm probably the wrong person to comment on PDF compatibility as I just can't justify reading PDF documents on an e-reader when there's a tablet available instead. No matter how good the PDF handling is on an e-reader, I seem to find almost any tablet option superior.