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Originally Posted by hobnail
I was worried that 10 inches would be too big and cumbersome but I feel like it's a great size. I complained about the weight of the cover in another thread and I don't doubt that it would be cumbersome even with it in the shell and the cover detached. The only thing that makes it less than perfect is the lack of buttons on the side.
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Same thing here. I thought that I would use the Elipsa only for books that can't comfortably be read on the Forma and the Libra, but I find that all books look better on the Elipsa, because of the size AND the quality of the screen which is way better that the Forma's and the Libra's, even in the dead of night with very low (LED) lighting.
And it is quite comfortable to hold sitting in my reading corner, with my feet on the ottoman and a cushion in my lap. I read with it on its dock too, the cover giving the right angle, while my PC is working through something that needs keeping an eye on.
But I do very much miss the buttons, mostly when paging within book lists or when reading in landscape mode, and from what I read in this forum a number of readers would buy an Elipsa with buttons who don't without.
Here is my wish-list for F/w improvements, the first two items the most pressing:
- Being able to choose a two pages layout in landscape mode, not only for PDF poetry collections with translations on facing pages, but also for PDFs built for smaller readers. I think it could be pleasant with Kepubs too - it is what we've all been used too since starting reading after all. The buttons would be particularly useful in landscape mode.
- Being able to increase margins on PDFs, for those who have been too severely cropped. And whether increasing or reducing margins, I think I wouldn't be alone in pleading for Kobo to maintain the position we chose when turning pages, so that we wouldn't have to pan every page.
- Access to advanced parameters for side-loaded fonts. I use the patches available for my other readers, but many users prefer not to patch and it should be accessible to all for all devices.
EDIT: I initially wrote epubs, I meant kepubs. I don't like epubs, mostly but not only because many of the books I read have notes,
which epubs on Kobo don't handle decently.