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Originally Posted by El Macho
Thanks for all the replies! I'm leaning towards the Kobo at this point, but am wondering about two things:
1. Vendor lock in.
This is probably the biggest plus for the Pocketbook vs the Kobo, my understanding is that PocketBook doesn't have any book vendor lock in, while the Kobo is locked in to its own store. Is that right? I'm becoming more and more of a data privacy hardliner, so openness/ability to buy books from anywhere and read them without having data sent back to the vendor is a big deal to me.
2. Developing hacks/apps
I've looked some at the Kobo developers forums vs the PocketBook forum. It looks like Kobo supports Python programs natively, but PocketBook is C++. I'm fastest working in Python, so that's a big plus for me.
I'm with you – simple is good! The Kindle's UI is not very intuitive, at least for me. It seems like I have to do way too many taps for some settings.
Thanks again for your responses, everyone. I really appreciate it!
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With Kobo You can buy everywhere, You have to use ADE on Your PC and then put the file on Your Kobo with it (apart Apprentice Alf tricks).
About privacy: Kobo requires a sign the first time You use it, You can do it regularly, do it with a fake email that Kobo doesn't check or use some hack with a program that handles the sqlite DB of the Kobo. In the second and the third cases of course if You buy a book from Kobo it won't appear directly on You device.
With Pocketbook You can skip the signing procedure. Another thing that You can do with Pocketbook is send to Pocketbook, it works like sending to Amazon Your personal files (they will appear like normal books, not like in Kindle where are marked as "personal documents"). But if privacy is so important may be You are not interested in this feature.