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Originally Posted by Katsunami
If Kobo would have the stability/reliability of the Kindle firmware, they'd have the perfect e-reader, at least for me.
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No closed (i.e., not Android or other OS that allows install of any app) reader that supports EPUB will ever be as stable as Kindle.
Amazon builds the devices, writes the firmware, designs the ebook format, and forces ebook creators to fix errors that cause gross rendering issues.
Kobo has to deal with EPUBs written by anybody, and you can have some really bad HTML/CSS that still meets the EPUB spec. The hardest part is dealing with the interaction between the user options (font, font size, margins) and the infinite possibilities in HTML/CSS.
In addition, Kobo has to deal with DRM they didn't write (Adobe) and allow users to get books onto the device from basically any source. They have also tried to be more user-friendly, and dived into the abyss that is Overdrive.
Given all that, they really have a much better product than Kindle, seeing as how some features that Kobo has long supported (hyphenation, for example) have only recently appeared for Kindle.