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Originally Posted by jackie_w
As a calibre user, Calibre Companion offers me all the book organisation I'd ever want or need on Android. All the Android epub/pdf reading apps need to be good at is the reading bit.
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This is the main reason why I switched from a 2013 Kobo Aura with a 32Gb SDCard library (~12.500 ebooks) to a Boyue Likebook Mars (Android 6.0 E-Ink Tablet) with the same media storage/library size.
Anyone who reads my previous posts on this Kobo forum may tell you that my main problem with Kobo Aura was it's slow management (it was allways accurate and complete, mind) of my indeed large library from and SD Card: firmware udpates wouldn't solve it, no matter which firmware update I picked.
Looking around the market for many a month, starting with Kobo & Kindle, I couldn't find a good "pure" e-reader solution that could read an SDCard or had large internal memory
and good library management (title, author, series, collections) so I started to look for an Android e-ink device, which I already knew would pale on the battery side compared with any and all current or recent Kobo o Kindle devices.
Best battery life with the Likebook Mars (2 weeks) is only half as good as tipycal battery life with the Kobo Aura (1 month)...
...but library management with Calibre Companion (including desktop and cloud sync) is simply superb (title, author, series, collections, tags; search and/or filter, e-book and calibre metadata),
and the native e-reader + dictionary is as good as you would want it to be, since you can install whatever mobi/StarDict dictionary you like, including enciclopedias or translations.
And if you're not pleased with the firmware software, you can allways install other android e-readers and/or dictionaries and/or library managers.
Is the loss of battery life and extra $ worth it?
For me, it has for the past three months.
Yours,
[INCANUS]