Thread: Dissatisfied Kindle user, looking for a reader I can organise books better on
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Old 04-21-2017, 07:43 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by vickan__ View Post
2. Thanks for the tip. I read on the Kobo forum a bit to get an idea. But it would be great if someone could confirm which (if any) of the features I mentioned wanting exist on the Kobo.
Kobo's do most of what you want: collections based on any column you want calibre; 11 built-in fonts plus sideload whatever you want; font size selection isn't limited; no jailbreaking needed, but there are a lot of patches that can tweak things more to your liking; several calibre plugins to add function.
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3. Yeah, I use Calibre for converting! But I find the limited format thing to be stupid on principle. Most of my books are epubs, and converting them isn't the worst thing ever, but why does it have to even be like that? It would be a nice bonus to have a reader that can read most formats.
My opinion would be ereader that supported one format perfectly. As long as it was the format I wanted it to support and they took my definition of perfectly

Kobo supports a lot of formats. But, the MOBI support is for older versions and DRM free only. It does PDF, but not reflow and the navigation if you need to zoom in is clumsy. CBR/CBZ are well supported, but, again, clumsy if zooming is needed. epub support is very good using the Adobe RMSDK so supports Adobe DRM. They also have their own format , "Kobo ePub" or kepub. This is basically an epub but uses a different renderer and has some slightly different rules (eg ignore widows and orphans in the CSS) but some advantages (eg. popup for footnotes, some nice in-book statistics).
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