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Originally Posted by HolyAura
Hi, am thinking of getting another ereader. I understand from my experience that a Kindle is inferior to a Kobo but in what way is that so? Doesn't a Kindle have more features like Goodreads and X-Ray? I only read fiction books and use the in-built dictionary, note-taking and highlighting a lot so I would just like to clarify what would suit my needs better, Kindle or Kobo? Overdrive is not that important for me too.
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I think Kindles are fine, especially if your comfortable buying books from Amazon. They come with a better dictionary (at least for English speakers, the Oxford English Dictionary with an American variant) have more features (most of which I don't use, like GoodReads and Xray) and, for a Linux user like me, they dispense with the need to use Adobe ADE. I do, occasionally use the Kindle Lending Library that comes with a Kindle. Kindle's limited ability to set margins is kind of a pain.
Kobos are more customizable. Patches are available and are relatevely easy to configure -- and margins, line spacing and font size are more adjustable, especially if you're using the native KePub formatted books. KePub and ePub are treated differently on an unpatched Kobo. KePub has (what I consider) a weird page numbering system (one page per screen, which changes depending on font size, margins, etc). But, other than that, the Kobos do a nice job of flowing text in KePubs (I use it without header, footer or progress bar). ePubs aren't quite as good (a lot of pages with a lot of white space at the bottom, and you're often unable to adjust the line spacing and/or margins ePub unless you DeDRM it and fix the ePub. Kobos, in general, same to require a bit more "tinkering." They're more persnickety about ePub settings or font settings. (More precise those who like Kobo will say but, again, this requires more "fixing.")
I was pretty happy with the Kindles, but I've mostly looked elsewhere lately because I don't want Amazon to have
all the eBook business.