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Originally Posted by davidfor
Personally, I think you put far to much emphasis on this. For the people I know who are using ereaders, none of them are reading on multiple devices. And, I have had to demonstrate the annotations function as they didn't know about it. There reactions tended to be somewhere between "cute" and "why?".
Again, I think a lot more emphasis is put on this here than really exists. Again, I've had to teach people about the dictionary in their ereaders. And most thought "handy" but didn't expect to use it. And I have reminded some of these people about it at other times.
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I am pretty sure your people and I are not the same types of readers. If all I did was breeze through popular fiction for entertainment, I‘d probably be totally fine with Kobo. Since I read a lot of of scholarly literature for information and literature in languages not my own, my preferences are somewhat different.
Hence my choice of platform. The fact that many types of readers can be ok with the Kobo offerings does not mean that I cannot point out the flaws of the Kobo system in regard to mine and similar readers’ profiles.
So while it may true that other readers’ emphasis may be somewhat different, I am pretty confident that I put just the right amount of emphasis on these features in regard to a certain group of readers.
Moreover, reverse ‘whataboutism’ does not do it for me. If Amazon can offer these features, why can‘t Kobo? Cost-saving measures? Kobos are generally (if only slightly) more expensive that Kindles already.