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Originally Posted by davidfor
All you should need to do is show her how much happier you are with the Kobo than she is with her Kindle. My wife does love her Kobo, but, if I am honest, she wouldn't be able to tell the difference. I chose Kobo in 2011 and she followed a bit later. But, she couldn't change to a Kindle now, because she wants the bigger screen. She went Touch, Glo, Aura ONE, Forma and now Sage. There is no way she would go to a smaller screen.
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I also won't go back to a smaller than 7.8 inch screen. 7.5-8.2 inch (8 inch +/- 0.2 inch) seems the sweet spot for me for an e-reader. Pity I don't like the lopsided design of the Sage that much... but I guess that this is going to be the design for the forseeable future.
The two things I love about a Kobo reader is the fact that they port their newest firmware back to very old e-readers, except maybe the Mini. Amazon doesn't do that. And, if you don't like something, there's a chance that there's a patch for it.
The patches I've got installed right now are:
- Smaller header/footer (gets me two more lines on the screen)
- Custom font sizes (I don't need the huge fonts, and this gives me more options in the middle range I do use)
- Nickel menu (for Invert Screen and Reboot, for the occasion I want to read in bed in complete darkness while my GF is already asleep; in that case I prefer dark mode. If the firmware somehow completely removes this on the KA1, I'll never upgrade it again.)