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Originally Posted by hobnail
The advantage of getting another Kindle is that its user interface hasn't changed in any significant way since the one that you got 10 years ago so no learning new stuff. By comparison the Kobo's user interface is amazingly useful; collections, series, etc.
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Depends. I don't actually find the collections and series feature particularly useful at all. Sure, they're nice to have and I do use Calibre to manage them, because it's just so easy, but on my Kobo I seldom browse the collections or series. Usually I decide what to read next behind my laptop with Calibre open, and I just use the search on my Kobo to locate the book. Exactly the same process as on my Kindle. That's because it's still too slow to browse folders/collections and read synopses on eink, as opposed to a computer.
I realize I'm an oddball in this, as most users seem to love any kind of library management features on their eink readers. For me, the ability to patch the reading experience is far more useful than library management on my Libra. And as far as the pure reading experience goes, the Oasis does almost everything I want as well as the Libra (with the help of some custom fonts and the font_ramp hack).