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Originally Posted by samosa
If Amazon is cheaper than Kobo I will buy from Amazon... for the silly reason that I have several Kindles with 3G capability and I can download the books at any time. I will probably never utilize the price match guarantee unless I purchase a book by mistake...  |
I didn't think I'd use it either, but I have a couple times now. First, several people here had good luck with it. Second, I used it when the price paid was still acceptable. That way I wouldn't be out much if it didn't go through or have a credit it would take me a while to use if it did. If there's a big difference, I just buy where it's cheaper and don't bother.
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Originally Posted by samosa
Recently I found out another reason why I may sometimes choose to buy books elsewhere, and not from Kobo... On Google Book if a book exists in both ePub and PDF version (they call them "Original Pages") you pay once and you get both versions. On Kobo some books have both versions and I have to choose either PDF or ePub, if I want both versions I will have to buy the same book twice. Sometimes in books with maths the equations renders rather poorly in ePub and mobi (smudgy, can't see the subscripts and supercripts etc) and I need to double check on the PDF version or may be switch over to reading the book in PDF. Having access to both versions is really handy.
This one isn't a maths book but it is an example of a book being in both PDF and KePub version:
Liberalism and the Limits of Justice by Michael Sandel |
That's something I like about Google too. Comics are often available in both formats there.