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Originally Posted by pghaworth
I am looking hard at the Pocketbook Inkpad 3. are you 100% loving it? If not, what are the things that bother you?
I would also put the pure Pocketbook firmware since I plan to get it from Decitre.
anyone with input on this please do respond. thank you!
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I got one a couple of days before and I love mine! I bought the PRO version which is waterproof and has bluetooth. Due to its being waterproof there is no SD-card slot but a 16 GB memory which is more than sufficient for me. I always have between 500 and 1000 books on my reader anyway so I've never maxed out on onboard storage with any reader I've ever owned.
Coming from Kobo the Pocketbooks software is very similiar to what I am used to. The Pocketbook is highly customizable. You can easily add your own fonts (just make sure you use .ttf), get rid of margins, have only a header or a footer or none of them, etc.
Of course the software is different to maneuver than the Kobos but it was very fast set up to my preferences and I really love the way it looks and acts now.
The reader itself is very lightweight. Even 50gr lighter than the KA1 and only 13gr (normal Inkpad3) or 28gr (Inkpad PRO) heftyer than the Forma, which is kind of a little marvel given the Forma has a Mobius screen and the Inkpads don't.
The screen is totally even and the lighting, too. You can swipe the screen to set brightness and light color. One is on the left and the other on the right side of the screen.
It recognizes a couple of gestures like tapping, swiping and so forth. The screen is divided. You can scroll forward and backwards no matter if you are reading right or left handed. The forward is to the left and the right of the screen (upper 2/3), backwards is at the bottom left and right, menue is in the middle, close book in the left upper corner and set bookmark in the right upper corner.
You can mark, annotate, scribble, bookmark. Have text-to-speech or listen to music while you read, listen to an audiobook, read in landscape (there is automatic rotation, which you can switch on or off as you like). Chess, Sudoku and other stuff I haven't explored yet. [Anyone else missing the games on the Kobo? I just recently discovered the patches, they can be patched back.]
It has buttons. I think you can customize those too. Being no buttonpusher myself I am not too sure how much but I know there are options.
There is Dropbox and you can mail stuff to the device. Buy or borrow books with the browser.
It is a joy to read with and a joy to set up. I am sure I left out a ton of other things you can do with it, as it is very new to me and I haven't explored the thing thoroughly enough to be an expert
I really, really love mine and this is something I couldn't say of the Forma even though I really wanted to love it.