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Originally Posted by Atunah
Plus, main reason, as far as I know, there were no page buttons on Kobo in early years. No page buttons, no dice.
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The first two Kobo models had physical buttons.
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I also never heard of a Kobo until many years into my e-reading experience. Do Kobo's have easy sync across all devices, easy dictionary, wikipedia? I have no clue. I didn't even know they were available in my country of the longest time. I think they are just recently available in the US without having to order from some overseas company.
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I think this is the first time I've heard an American refer to Canada as an overseas country. Almost as funny as watching Americans struggle with world geography on Jeopardy. Category: World Capitals, country is Georgia, contestant answered "What is Atlanta".
Easy sync across devices? If you mean things like reading position for books purchased from Kobo and synced to the ereader? Yes. Sideloaded books? Kobo gets time spent reading and page turns. Canadian privacy regulations make sending other information difficult. Dictionary? Yes, though not the greatest but then I seldom use a dictionary. Wikipedia? There used to be a search Wikipedia but it was removed. I suspect due to lack on interest.
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I also noticed that over the years reading this forum, yes I read other devices forums, I notice there seems to be a lot of "fiddling" with kobos. Putting things on them. I don't jailthingie, whatever that means my kindles. I want to buy device, open device, load a book and start reading. I just remember a a lot of posts about fiddling with software stuff with kobo's. Not my thing. If it doesn't work as is out of the box, it is not for me.
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Going by some of your statements, I find it hard to believe that you have ever read this forum other than possibly seeing the name as you headed to the Amazon forum.
Jailbreak? An attempt to make your Kindle an open device the way a Kobo is out of the box. Something which Amazon has worked hard to make impossible.
As for fiddling with software? My Forma does not get patched and it is my main reader. My Clara HD does get patched and played with. We all have our ideas of fun.
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Maybe if I had started with a kobo I would have all kobo books now. Probably not though. I would have found a kindle that has page turn buttons later and never looked back. Plus, I was a amazon user long before kindle. They are just more accessable. Still the only reason I have ever heard of Kobo's is because of this forum. Otherwise I would still not know they existed.
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Hmmm... so you never got into the touch screen revolution? I seem to remember Amazon dropping page turn buttons (though I seem to remember that they used a D-pad and not separate buttons) like a hot potato until they brought them back with the Voyage.
As for whether Kobo or Amazon makes a better ereader, I had to love one review by an American of the Kobo Aura One where he compared it to the original Oasis (both released in 2016). Evidently he loved the typography, he loved the screen size with a 7.8" screen compared to a 6" screen (both 300 PPI). Variable colour backlighting. CBR/CBZ support out of the box (I suspect the reviewer was a closet comic book reader). IPX waterproofing. But it weighed more than the Oasis 1 without the battery/cover, 230g vs 131g so he had to drop it to 3 stars out of 5. Of course, adding the cover to the Oasis 1 brought it's weight up to 238g but that didn't matter since it was a Kindle.
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Not sure why this obsession with OP to turn kindle users onto Kobo. Use whatever works for you and what offers the things you must have. Or whatever you always used. Why change something that works.
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I might have to agree with some of what you are saying in that paragraph.
OTOH, why change something that works? Looking back, I guess we really didn't need ereaders when we had physical books that we actually owned. We didn't need horseless carriages when we had horses. Who needed vacuum cleaners, washing machines, dryers, etc. when we had servants to take care of that work. Who needs HD TV when we could watch our favourites on TVs.
All thing considered, welcome to the 21st century where change is a way of life.