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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
Nope, you're utterly wrong about this, absolutely no Catch-22 situation here. The reason I don't read PDF ever on my reader is that my reader is too small, and the few PDFs I do read need not only larger screens but also color displays. I don't even read many PDFs on my 10.1 tablet, I read most of the PDFs I do read on my 28-inch monitor.
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Apparently when you said PDF, you actually meant something like "large diagrams" or "comics." Those may well be unusable on a Kobo tout court, but they would be at least equally unusable in an EPUB, so it simply doesn't make sense to associate that issue with PDF.
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I've disabled Pocket on my Kobo, which I think shows exactly how much I value that kind of service. I ditched my Dropbox account years ago too, not interested in services of that kind either.
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This isn't a commercial enterprise. We're not going to pretend you're missing out by not using KOReader if you're happy with what you've got. But if you're genuinely curious, just install the program. And Plato too. It's available as a double feature.
Ignoring everything else, I find Nickel much less pleasant to use because the file management is beyond awful, page turning while reading is
slow and its lack of kerning is atrocious. I see Plato as the good version of Nickel. KOReader's not necessarily as polished or as intuitive as Plato (and it can be rather exhausting to prevent well-intentioned programmers from making that worse) but on average it offers vastly more options if you're willing to explore a little.
Broadly sketched, my ecosystem consists of Archive.org (facsimile DjVu/PDF), DBNL (EPUB/facsimile PDF), Gallica (facsimile PDF), Project Gutenberg (EPUB), Humble Bundle (EPUB/CBZ/PDF), OAPEN (digital native & facsimile PDF), academic papers (digital native & facsimile PDF), independent authors (EPUB), long form articles saved in Wallabag (EPUB), and occasionally Wikipedia articles saved through KOReader (EPUB).
KOReader is primarily interesting if you feel like you're missing out on something along those general lines because of the inferior Nickel experience. But if you're perfectly happy in kepub land, chances are there's nothing to be found here. And that's okay.