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Originally Posted by DNSB
Actually, by around here, I meant in my physical area and not the MobileRead virtual community. There are a fair number of users of both Kobo and Kindle ereaders along with a few less common devices. For my sins, I seem to be regarded as someone to ask about ereaders so I get a fair amount of input about various ereader models. "Which do you think is the best ereader?" (It's not being sold yet) being the most common followed by "How do I get ebooks from the library to my Kindle?" (Around here, you don't.).
BTW, the co-worker I mentioned who strips covers and other unneeded (in his opinion) data to shrink his .mobi files? We tried adding 142 books to his Kindle PW2 and it was faster but not blazingly faster than a Kobo Aura HD. The mobi and epub versions of the books were downloaded from Gutenberg with the .mobi files loaded into Calibre on his laptop and .epub files loaded into Calibre on my laptop. We attempted to click on Smart Eject in Calibre at the same time and then waited for processing to finish. Both ereaders already had quite a few ebooks added which may be factor in the time taken to process new ebooks.
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How did you know when the Kindle was done processing? I just plugged in my PW2 and added 86 books using Calibre, and when I ejected it I was immediately able to start reading--immediately. I then added those same 86 books to my Aura HD and when I ejected I had to spend the next 2.5 minutes staring at a black screen that informed me that it was processing the content. That's the difference between the Kindle and the Kobo. The Kindle is able to process the new content in the background while it is also being used to read a book. Why can't Kobo do that?
Shari