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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I love how many are jumping through hoops to get the cover to be the sleep screen when Kobo has had it as a feature for over six years and no need to jump through hoops.
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I do like Kobo eReaders and own two of them myself.
I never thought I'd buy a Kindle again, but now that I have, I find it faster, more consistent with formatting and smarter (kepub has justification issues with punctuation like long dashes if one chooses to use it with Kobos). I do find it's easier to lose date by accident on a Kobo than a Kindle, but that's probably my own klutziness with buttons, particularly on the original Kobo Aura HD. They've probably taken care of that on my Clara.
But the Kindle's niceties are exactly what I'd expect from a vast monopoly that has the money and RD to add them.
And of course those features are counterbalanced by my Kobos' unproblematic permission to do other things I prefer, and by the flexibility and universality of epub.
But I have no illusions about Kobo/Rakuten being a virtuous company either.
(I use my Clara at home and my Oasis at my girlfriend's place on weekends, so I'm not speaking from the vantage of dim recollection; I actively use both.)