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Originally Posted by misspelling
@JSWolf: Now here comes a beginners question and I apologize in advance but what does this registration you're mentioning accomplish besides from letting me turn off WiFi?
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Firmware upgrades and bug fixes. You don't need every upgrade, but you should log in every few months to keep things up to date. My Forma checks for upgrades when I attach the USB cable (I have Wi-Fi off).
I would not attempt to read a PDF->ePub conversion. Even a fairly simple novel produces something barely readable. The problem is that the conversion is preserving the layout; the point about an ePub is that it should be resizable and flow as you adjust your font size and margins. I had this problem with a purchase of what turned out to be an ePub 3 file; fortunately, the publisher was active on the site, and re-exported it as ePub 2. It looked fine in ePub 3 on my iPad, but it was unreadable in a converted ePub 2 output on my Kobo. (We won't mention the file size...)
PDFs is the reason I got the 32 GB Forma (you can order directly from Kobo). I have a large collection of RPG PDF files and wanted something I could put a specific system (core rules, source books, adventures and other supplemental material) without worrying about space.
The Forma lasts weeks between charges if I'm not using it a lot; so did my other eInk readers (the Icarus, the Kobo Touch and my old Elonex). The iPad (and the Aluratek Libre I used to have - it had an LCD screen) has to be charged daily.
The other thing you may want to consider is the ability to make annotations.