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Old 08-13-2018, 08:07 PM   #6
rcentros
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Originally Posted by jackie_w View Post
His complaints were about a lot more than just customer support:
- "books that it would just refuse to read large chunks of pages, among many other issues"
- "wouldn't page properly"
- "native OS is so bad I had to download a different system"

I've owned many Kobos (and Sony, Pocketbook) not one of them had any of the above problems.
I just read a short chunk of the quote (the part right behind advising against Kobos which dealt with Kobo support). I will say this, however, without the patches, page margin rendering is pretty anemic in Kobos. At least it is in the older devices I use. I don't get those issues in Kindles, Sonys, Nooks or my Tolino. The margin patches make a huge difference, however, and Kobos are easy to patch.

I don't know what he's talking with the "native OS" part — Kobos use Linux, I believe. And the only time Kobo books have lost chunks of text is when I converted KePubs into ePubs and sent them to my Sonys. My work-around was to convert KePub to ePub, then convert it to AZW3, then back to ePub. Worked well.
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