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Originally Posted by Atunah
I always wondered about the Kobo's, but then I read all the threads here about all the tweaking, installing this and that, this plugin for this and that, I always thought of them as not being for someone like me in any case as I do not mess with any of those things.
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It's not necessary to tweaking, etc. to use a Kobo ereader. Much as you don't need to jailbreak your Kindle to be a happy user. But for some, it is part of the fun in using a device.
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Originally Posted by Atunah
Its also very tough to switch to a completely different system when one has books in one format since 2008 that I can access at my fingertips. I don't like downloading everything on my readers, so no matter how good those devices are, I wouldn't or couldn't be switching for those reasons. But its nice to see competition still in the e-ink area.
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Since 2008? You likely have ebooks in several different formats and multiple variants -- Amazon has made quite a few changes to their formats (.mobi and .azw3) over the years. As for downloading everything to your reader? Not a necessity with Kobo's ereaders either though not as convenient as Amazon's cloud -- assuming you have network connectivity.
I have to agree that competition does a good job of driving development.
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Originally Posted by Atunah
I do like the overdrive integration, that is neat. I guess if Kobo ever decides to drop kindle support from the libraries as they own it now, I might have to get one just to be able to read library books. I hope that never happens, but one never knows. As regular sized one though, not a super sized.  |
Around here, there is no Kindle support in public libraries. 99% epub format with a few ebooks that give you a choice between epub and pdf format. Amazon didn't start selling Kindles here until early 2013 so most of the library systems did not consider the expense of supporting Kindles worthwhile.