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Originally Posted by cement
On the news front, it's pretty cool that the Kindles allow you to subscribe to things like the New York Times, etc. But maybe not things like The Economist?
That's all cool for subscriptions, but honestly on the Kobo if Pocket support works as well as I can imagine, then I can visit NYT or Economist articles in a Chrome incognito window and just save them to Pocket. Then I don't really need actual subscriptions on the ereader. At least you have the syncing ability of Pocket, but no real browsing on the Kobo (let's ignore the web browser on the Kobo...). And of course, all the other things from my Pocket list will just be there. That seems huge.
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Regarding newspapers: calibre's Fetch News is your friend. I am a fan of The Economist and have read it on my Kindle (Paperwhite previously, Voyage currently) for a few years now. The Amazon subscription service is convenient and generally formatted reasonably well (a few spa ces get thrown into the middle of words now and again, but otherwise okay), and it auto-delivers each Friday morning.
The downside, from what I recall reading about Amazon's model (maybe has changed, but knowing Amazon, probably has not), is that they take a pretty big cut (30%) and only give the money to the newspaper, not your information. So, if you subscribe through Amazon, The Economist doesn't know you exist (I still get renewal invitations occasionally) and only gets 70% of your subscription price. I believe it's like this for most of newspapers and magazines.
Considering that calibre's Fetch News works with The Economist and most major newspapers, I am going to subscribe to The Economist directly and cut Amazon out. The Fetch News copy of this week's Economist is large identical to the one that Amazon pushed to my device, aside from minor formatting differences. The only thing that's missing from my perspective at the moment is an automated push-to-device functionality in calibre. I am currently using send to Kindle with no hiccups.
I bought a Kobo Glo HD recently (it is currently in a UPS facility in Buffalo, NY). I do not know how Kobo handles magazines, but I suspect that they don't have anything as organized as Amazon's POBI file extension, which makes jumping around to different sections and skipping articles much easier than a straight table of contents.
Another note: as you mentioned using the public library. The Kindle does not support 3M Cloud Library. This is especially funny given that Overdrive is owned by Kobo's parent company Rakuten. Here in NYC, the NYPL uses both Overdrive and 3M Cloud Library, and a very large number of library books I want to read have not been available in the Kindle format as a result. Depending on what services your library uses, a Kobo will likely give you more library book choices.