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Old 07-18-2018, 12:10 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by leaperk View Post
So I lost my Kindle Paperwhite 3 and I am currently looking for a replacement. I have most of my content in the epub format and would like to move away from the Kindle platform and use Calibre to sideload content to the new device.

I have narrowed down the choice to either updating my Kobo Touch 1.0 or purchasing the Nook Glowlight 3. I do have a Glowlight 3 on the way from Ebay that was too good a deal to pass up but I have no experience with the Nook platform.

How does the Kobo vs Nook platforms compare against each other using Calibre for managing side-loaded content?
I have a Glowlight 3 and love it as a piece of hardware. The software isn't especially good and can be buggy. After ejecting it, the Nook seems to reprocess all of the books. So even though your device is ejected it'll take a minute or two to reset itself.

When you sideload from Calibre, do you plan to use a lot of collections? Are series important to you? For those things, Kobo's software is superior.

I tend to read one book at a time, I don't worry too much about collections and am not a series reader. The Glowlight works great for me.

If anything I mentioned above sounds like a problem, you might look into the Kobo Clara HD. It sounds about as nice as the Glowlight 3 (though without the physical buttons) and it does have better software.
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