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Originally Posted by johnnyb
And yet Kindle has better support for the open file formt PDF...
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Hmmm... my original experience with alternative readers on an eink reader was due to the poor support of Amazon for pdf. I don't own a newer device but a co-workers Paperwhite 2015 does not seem to have improved the stock pdf experience to any great extent.
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Originally Posted by johnnyb
People didn’t have issues with their Sony PRS-500s and yet it is easy to point out that they present a subpar experience in comparison to what is possible these days.
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Really? I seem to remember a reboot loop trying to update the firmware on a PRS-500. Then there was sending them back to Sony for the epub capability upgrade though I seem to remember that was supposed to include a hardware as well as firmware mod. Alternative firmwares, scripts to modify the behaviour and allow alternative fonts. Eeyup, no one had issues with the Sony ereaders nor did they post enough complaints on Mobileread and elsewhere about such issues.
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Originally Posted by johnnyb
The fact that Kobo is collaterally introducing new bugs and other quibs with every firmware release is just subpar, period. Of course if I just read a couple of novels that I purchase from Kobo, I have less problems than if I use calibre in conjunction with my Kobo and have to restart the device after adding new books because my Kobo only registered half of them on first try (and database is likely to corrupt if I just ignore the discrepancy between files on the device and in the database, just a random bug in 3.13.1)...
I really don’t care if most people are generally satisfied with their Kobos, they are just bad devices, starting with subpar eink drivers (largely responsible for the sluggish behavior) all the way up to the random quibs like random unregistered highlights...
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Hmmm... last time I did a factory reset on my H2O, I copied over ~2800 epubs to the external uSD card using Calibre. Ejected and left overnight so the processing occurred while I slept. Next morning all the ebooks were processed and my H2O was a happy camper. I did have processing hang at times in the past but since I went the route of error checking and correcting my epub collection including any new epubs I add to my collection, I haven't seen that issue recur.
It would be nice if Kobo had better error trapping for non-compliant epubs but since I have seen no issues with epubs that are standards compliant, it's hard to blame them. It's not that hard to use epubcheck and Flightcrew to check your epubs for errors so if you insist on feeding garbage epubs in, I don't see you as having much of a right to complain that you are getting garbage out.
Looking at your comment on "subpar eInk drivers", I'm having trouble deciding whether you might have sufficient background in programming drivers of
any kind to make such a comment meaningful or you are simply whinging. At this time, I'm leaning towards the whinging. Looking at your device listing (Kindle, iPad, iPhone) and calling yourself an evangelist might have something to do with that decision. Hmmm... Kindle evangelist complaining about Kobo ereaders.
"To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture." Thomas Paine