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Old 10-26-2021, 05:13 AM   #3
rcentros
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Location: Boise, ID
Device: PB HD3, GL3, Voyage, Clara HD
If I was building a "Frankenreader" I think I would start with a Kindle Voyage and keep its sharp, crisp screen and haptic page turn buttons but add warm light. I would want to base it on ePub instead of AZW3 and change its page display to match the Pocketbook HD3s (I like that I can get rid of the header and footer and that the books fills the screen top and bottom — and the left and right margins can be whatever you want them to be, unlike the Voyage). And I think the Pocketbook hyphenates better than the Kobo. I would add the font and margin customization features of the Kobo (finer graduations) — though I would try to alleviate its pickiness about ePub standards and acceptable fonts and the fact that not all ePubs can have their margins or line heights changed. I would only use ePub page numbering (no page numbering that changes with the size of the font). I would keep Kobo's ability to directly borrow books from Overdrive (hopefully that will be fixed soon, BTW) but add the Tolino and PocketBook's built-in ADE so I could buy books from anywhere directly from the device and borrow Overdrive books not in the Kobo store. I would also keep the Tolino and Pocketbook ability to store and sync any book on their Clouds. And the PocketBook's ability to directly sync with Dropbox (though I don't yet use it). There's probably other stuff I'm forgetting, like the a Tolino "home button" or Nook home button and the Pocketbook's ability to adjust the warm light settings by swiping the right edge of the screen and the its brightness level by swiping on the left edge. I would also like to keep the PocketBook's ability to turn off the touch screen. Also I would want the Sony's, Kindles (and now Kobo's) Oxford English dictionary.

I'm not asking for too much.

Maybe a little a more... add the PocketBook's or Sony's battery life, an exchangeable battery from the Astak EZReader and (maybe) a Sony microSD slot.

(More to come?)

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