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Originally Posted by bit101
All devices have their strong points. The Nova Pro has plenty of advantages over the devices you mentioned.
Kobo/Kindle: the Nova takes notes, sketches, runs useful apps for reading or managing content like pocket, instareader, dropbox natively. And has access to multiple app stores that let you install other apps you might find useful.
iPad: Nova has an eink screen which is subjectively better in many ways, and has drastically better battery life.
No doubt your other devices have other advantages over the Nova as well.
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You are right. However, for 300 quid, I found the Nova Pro clunky to use, with a worse reading app than either Kindle or Kobo and worse PDF options than available on the iPad.
I was hoping the Kindle app would run well, b7t 8t didn‘t compared to an actual Kindle. I also hoped the epub rendering would be as good as Kobo‘s but it wasn‘t. I also thought that the PDF reader would provide a fluid, stable experience, but it didn’t.
I guess it’s an essential device for people who read tons of PDFs out in the park, but merely gaining the option to do so is not worth it in my opinion.
I also really did not like that Neoreader does not write into PDFs directly but always has to create a separate file which is huge in comparison to the original. Even the free Koreader app on Kobo is better in that regard.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a terrible device in itself, it’s just quite useless with questionable performance when you already have your workflow with PDFs and epubs set up. There’s nothing in the Nova Pro that made me want to adapt my workflow to it.