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Originally Posted by barryem
I prefer Kindles to Kobos, although I have and like both. Changing formats is trivial and it doesn't change them in any ways I ever noticed. I often read a book on 2 devices and it's never been a problem.
I think the only true answer to whether your better off with one than another is how you feel about it, and that answer only really applies to you.
Barry
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I'd suspect that you have not seen that many ebooks where the author/publisher have made use of more than basic formatting. I've seen several that required severe editing to make them readable after a conversion or even moving from a lower resolution device.
One recent horrible example was a book of poetry where every poems was aligned on the page by a mix of <head> declared and inline styles and every line had it's inline styles to align the words and set font sizing -- all using absolute measurements -- pixels and points should be banned. Rather pretty on a 600x800 epub ereader but when the owner of the ereader updated to a Kindle PW3 with higher resolution and did a format conversion using Calibre, it was a dog's breakfast. On my KA1, it wasn't quite as bad but so much wasted space since I was basically looking at a 600x800 box in the upper left corner. A bit of work with Sigil (blessed be the name of RemoveInlineStyles together with regex and global search/replace batting cleanup
) and while not as pretty, it converted and was readable.