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Old 10-12-2015, 06:56 AM   #1514
Nick_1964
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Device: Sony prs-650, Kobo Glo HD (2x), Kobo Glo
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Originally Posted by booklover6 View Post
The glare around the edge of the Kobo Glo HD doesn't bother me in the least. Everyone will have their own reaction. (Personally I am far more bothered by the shine of the bezel around the Aura - and the Kindle Voyage - and my tablets - and had to shell out for skins to cover them).

There is no real need, IMO, to open the device and upgrade the memory. If you need to store more books than the device will hold, my advice is to get a second device.
In direct sunlight the glare can be annoying but that is no reason not to buy it, a little repositioning can be very usefull and in direct sunlight a normal book can reflect to.

The storage, I don't eaxctly understand this.. when 4 gig is not enough then on a later time, 8 will not be either.. it is simple to add more books by using a dropbox or other storage site to add books, i would take 2, one with already read books and one with still to read books..

And (or but) it is really simple to make the storage bigger by making the books smaller... why using a almost full HD cover with sizes bigger then you can ever display, in full color taking almost 1MB for only the cover, with fonts in it,for every book the same fonts in the book itself.
You can gain enormously amount of space by replacing the covers by 16 shades of grey (oops.. not that book..)ones in a 1440x1072 resolution.
The device can't do more so everything will be rendered back to those dimentions.
And why keeping all the fonts in the books when you simply can add them once to the font directory and remove them from the book itself.
Why keep 20 books with,lets say the "bookerly font" when it is so simple to add it once to the font directory and remove them out of the book itself,the result stays the same but I have reduced books from almost 2 MB to 300 KB without changing the look of the book itself,make it possible to almost put 7 books on the device where now only 1 fits..
If you calculate that factor 7 back to the internal 4 GB, you can store up to 28 GB of books on that same 4 GB ....
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