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Originally Posted by shalym
For me, the biggest difference between the Kobo and the Kindle in terms of processing time is that the Kobo is unusable while new books are being processed, and the Kindle is able to be used.
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This. The way Kobo handles the book processing is a terrible design decision. I haven't seen this level of annoyance with any other ebook reader. Your device can become completely unusable for an unpredictable time period. If you're lucky it's done after a few hours. Unless it chokes on some bad formatting and doesn't finish at all. Without even giving you an error message. It's insane. And if you forget to unmount your device and the database gets corrupted, it does it all
again.
As a user I don't care how the software does its processing. But chances are if I have my device in my hands and upload some books, I want to read. Not watch a black screen with a progress percentage.
And I actually like my Kobo devices, but this madness on the software side is a major reason why I rarely bother using nickel anymore.
Edit: I recently upgraded from the Glo to the Glo HD. But I did it
despite the Kobo software. If it wasn't for koreader, I would have bought a Kindle.