[Bilan]

Hello,

I will give you my opinion
(plz forbid my English)

I have a Oasis since octobre 2018 (so it's the 9th generation)
I love it (it replaces a paperwhite that still works, but I wanted a bigger screen AND buttons to switch pages).
The only downside I always think about Kindle's is that the library inside the interface is messy. I sideload most of my books (even the ones I buy on Amazon, I unDRM it and put into Calibre) so I believe it's the reason: For people who buy and load their books from Amazon directly it's probably ok. You can create collection from the amazon website and manage your books.

So I gave a try to the Libra 2 (I tried the Forma last year but I quickly sent it back because of the bad quality of the screen that shocked me immediately).

Here my opinions so far:
- The dictionary is a disappointment compared to the Kindle one. Fortunately, we can easily change for another one and I toke the French and English ones from bobotig's repository.

- The translator dictionary is disappointing too. I compared both ereader by randomly clicking on same words in the same books. For example the verbs. I read in French and when I click on;
"trusted" KOBO => "votre recherche ne correspond à aucun terme. Le terme le plus proche est "trustee")" ( = it means ur research match nothing, the most close word found is..)
Same with "cleaned" => "votre recherche ne correspond à aucun terme. Le terme le plus proche est "cleaner")"

OASIS => can give you the verbs, no problem.

It's just 2 examples, and not a big big deal, but it worth to mention it.

- The reader keeps disconnecting from my computer. I tried with another USB-c cable to be sure: same. Sometimes I can load severals books before it disconnects, sometimes after one it disconnects. Maybe there is a bad contact in the USB-c port, only on my device. I don't say you will have the same problem for sure.

- The quality of the screen: About this point, blame me. On every comparing reviews I read before I buy the kobo, they say the kobo is better. So it's probably only me who is more used about the bridghtness/colorness of kindle.

I bought the kobo especially to be able to manage collections/series better than I can do with my kindle. But couldn't find out how to do. So far I've installed koboutilities and koboextended plugins and Calibre, I did some settings and I understood I have to create tags that will create Collections on Calibre. But all my Library is sorted with tags already. So I'm disappointed that I have to create new tags for that.

- The battery is better. That's always has been a known problem with OASIS. At least with the 9th generation, maybe it's better now ? But anyway for me it's not really a problem. I cannot say that I don't mind at all, but I've learned to live with it, and I simply plug my KO more often.

- The kobo has 32G and the kindle has 8Gb. It's not a problem (FOR ME) because anyway with 8gig I can load more books than I could ever read far, from my computer (for example when we go in holidays during one month, 8gig let me stock more books than necessary even if you read 10 books per days). BUT I don't listen audiobooks( actually I do in my car but with my iPhone). AND I don't read Manga/comics and those could take quickly a lot of space.
So maybe for you it can be a problem ? If so, the OASIS has a 32GB model but it's 90 euros more expensive than the libra2

- the kobo is slightly bigger and heavier than the KO. But honestly if I did not hear that on a review, I wouldn't have notice it.

- Maybe it's just a setting I didn't find (yet) but sometimes, when I open a book, the fonts are way too big. So I have to decrease it. But when I open another book, then the fonts are too small and I have to increase. I don't know why. And again, I tested this books with my OASIS, and I don't have this problem

- I like the vocabulary builder (I hope it's the right translation) on my OASIS. Someone told me it exists something similar now (finally..) on kobo, named "my words". But again Im disappointed.
The kindle shows you the "context sentence" (the sentence in which the word is used), then you can see the definition or not, mark it as acquired or not, and go the next word.
But with kobo you cannot do that ! You can see the definition, you can see the sentence were it comes from, then u can go to the next word. But you cannot stay in the view "words used in their sentences" and go from one word to the other. (I hope I'm clear enough to describe the problem). It's really not good to review your words !

If the Kindle would give you the possibility to sync and manage your collections easily with Calibre (but it will probably never happen) I would be the happiest reader. I think I will reset and restart from scratch with my OASIS and see. But I will probably send back the Libra2.



EDIT: I've found another problem: I loaded a pdf on both devices. The pdf was seen too small on the kobo. So I zoomed in it and adjusted it, and it was good to be read. But then I switched to the next page and the page was off-centered :0 I can zoom in/out and correct that but as soon as I switch page, it's the same problem .. Then I opened the same book with my KO: the pages are well sized !
I didn't test other pdf. Maybe just unlucky with this one ? That's also a well-known fact that kobo didn't deal well with pdf, but I thought this "old" downside didn't exist anymore. :-/