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Originally Posted by Poppaea
BTW, the shop I ended up ordering from still has some left (they had 92 when I ordered and are down to 8 units right now), so if anyone in Germany wants to order from them, they are fast and very good. Shipping notice with tracking number and all. |
Ordered there yesterday and received it today, fantastic!
Some experiences so far (coming from Kindle PW2):
- first time kobo user (Kindle3 and PW2 so far)
- I'll spare you the comparison photos, no matter how I make them they won't do the screen justice (the PW2 now looks like a toy next to the KA1).
- the KA1 screen _looked_ grayer at first but then after initial, what, "warm up?" or something it's on par with the PW2 in terms of contrast. I know, weird but that's how I saw it.
- the sqilite hack didn't work because the table has more columns now, a blob, even. I copied the existing line and changed most of the stuff in there but after creating another line the reader errored out. I went with wifi reg instead and signed up a fake account which I'll never use.
- calibre for everything (most of my stuff is mobi/azw3, all nicely dedrm'd)
- kepub vs epub: definitely kepub. Much faster page turns (again, about as fast as the PW2), epub was much slower. All I care about is percentage in the book, this time to finish stuff was never close to spot on for me.
- enabled full screen, prevented autosync and google analytics
- yes, full screen == no progress bar but a middle tap shows that info, that's enough for me
- patched its brains out (@GeoffR, you are the frikking MAN!), very easy. Went conservatively and enabled just a few patches so far (the kepub fixes for full screen were important to me). Now all I see on the screen is text, top to bottom, left to right with almost zero margins in any direction - perfect!
- added a few fonts (I'm used to Amazon's Bookerly)
- can't say much about battery life yet
- as others said, the auto-light is too twitchy
- usability: all I ever read is epub/mobi, text only, so what I use 99.9% of the time is next page (tap) and dictionary now and then. Both of these work just fine.
- a screen this size begs for a two column view in portrait mode, nickel doesn't have it and I know koreader does. I'll try that at some point.
- still gotta sort out hyphenation
Now I have it as I want it, in all of its full-7.8"-screeny glory. I'll do some actual reading this evening (maybe pick a new font).