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Originally Posted by Quoth
How well do those work when you've no internet, the service is down, or you are travelling etc.?
I know a lot of these are convenient, but not one is as cheap and reliable as your own laptop and none are backup solutions. Most people have no idea of the uptime, how to back them up, security or privacy either.
The Sony PSR350, Kindles (DXG, Paperwhite 3, Keyboard) and Kobos are almost never separately charged. After sorting out the fetching of annotations (Kobo) or deleting or sending of books I leave it connected till it's charged. They all still charge after Eject Device on Calibre or the Desktop. I also backup the Kobo database, not possible on Kindles, Nook, Binatone or Sony I've had.
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How well does Calibre work with no cable to sync the device? Or if your Kobo and Calibre versions get out of sync with no internet while travelling? I feel like those are all about as likely as one of the cloud services having meaningful downtime.
Calibre IMO is a PITA. There's some useful plugins for it, but I hate sideloading books. I hate fiddling with conversion settings, I hate that it doesn't work properly with Japanese books with an English interface.
I recently picked up a Boox Nova 2. It's great that I can buy a book off Amazon or Kobo and just read and not have to download the book to my PC, make sure the desktop clients are all the right version, etc. I just download the book. It's great.
I still periodically backup my books, but it's nice not to have to do that with every purchase (or every purcahse on a another store anyways).