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Originally Posted by w33
DRM, etc.
-I'm not sure how it works for books but I'd like to be able to store books I buy on my pc too, as well as be able to buy&download on my pc and then upload to the ereader. Are any of the brands limited in that sense?
are you happy to read with someone else's ideas of fonts...
-if there's a reader that has everything else I want, but lacks this customization it's fine, but generally I'd prefer to have the option to customize
are you expecting to end up with a large collection of books that you want to easily manage into shelves (collections)
-that sounds like something I'd want to do.
Is there any reason not to go with something like PocketbookSense (PB630) over Voyage?
Dictionaries
-are Kindles the only ones that have good dictinary? It's somewhat important to me as I'm not native speaker, but read mostly in English.
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A touch simplistic, but it is pretty accurate to view the situation presently as there being two main book formats - Amazon uses its own and everyone else uses Epub. Currently both can have their drm stripped fairly quickly.
Kobo, Tolino and Pocketbook all allow user added fonts.
Kobo, Tolino and Pocketbook, in my opinion, allow better library management than Kindles.
The PB630 has a poorer screen than the Voyage. The best 6" screens now offer 300dpi sharpness (I do think the extra dpi makes a difference). The Kindle Paperwhite and higher models all have 300dpi screens. The Pocketbook Touch HD has a 300dpi screen, as do the Tolino Shine 2HD and Tolino Vision 4HD. Currently, Kobo seem to have stopped selling a 6" reader with a 300dpi screen.
I feel the in built English dictionary used by Kindles is the best, most complete of the dictionaries and the Kobo the least complete. The Pocketbook has the worst method of accessing the dictionary when reading.