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Originally Posted by dmevis
I am currently using a Nook Glowlight 3. I love the ability to change the screen color, but find it is incredibly slow to do anything other than turn pages. That is, moving between screens is painfully slow, and sometimes locks up the device.
While I generally love Amazon, I am not thrilled about most of their Kindle devices or their closed environment. So I am considering one of the Kobo devices. Are the Kobo devices able to process more quickly than my Nook?
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I have a Kobo Aura and several Nooks (including the Glowlight Plus and Glowlight 3) and overall, I like my Kobo better. Lots of little things like being able to add different fonts (I like Google's Literata Book font) and a more customizable interface (want to make the top page back and the bottom page forward? You can do that) and having the book cover appear as the sleep screen.
Like you, my Glowlight is slow when doing anything other than turning pages (though never so slow it locks up). Maybe we both got a bad software update. But if so, how do you correct that? Your guess is as good as mine.
My Glowlight Plus is faster than my Glowlight 3 and they both use the same software.
At any rate, my five year old Kobo Aura is faster than my Glowlight 3.
If you get a Kobo, the closest match will be the Clara HD. It has the same high resolution screen and color changing frontlight. You won't have the page turn buttons though.
And Clara (and most current readers) use capacitive touch screens, while the Glowlight 3 doesn't. So the Glowlight 3 will have a slightly better looking screen (for all their mistakes, the Glowlight 3 screen looks fantastic). I also do think that Nook's layout tends to look a little better than Kobo (I tend to see more sentences with extra space or stretched words on Kobo). But these downsides aren't deal breakers for me.
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I have about 300 .epub books. Any particular issues with moving to a Kobo?
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Are those ePubs books you bought from B&N? If so, you'll have to strip the DRM to read them on your Kobo. B&N has made that more difficult lately.