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Originally Posted by issybird
I’ve always found that one a head-scratcher, also, in terms of working out of the box and starting to read. However, I’ll add that I think the UI on Kobos is cleaner and more intuitive than on Kindles. That might mostly be a case of preferring what I know better, admittedly - and many don’t give that factor enough weight when offering their opinions.
Still, I find organizing collections on Kindles Byzantine compared to Kobo and, a tiny change, I wish Kindle had a “Reading” category and not just “Read” and “Unread”; it makes it much faster to navigate back to all your books in progress if you read several at a time.
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I created a collection called Currently Reading on my Kobo and my Kindles.
As for the out of the box issue: I suppose I was mostly refering to the registration. When I bought my PW2 (things may have changed) it was possible to use it, unregistered, for a few years - it was 'logged' as mine on the Amazon site, but I hadn't needed to connect to wifi (which I don't have) to register the actual device.
However a Kobo needs to be registered before it can be used - it's impossible to get passed the registration screen. Because I still don't use wifi the app made it easy to register, with a little help from mobileread.
Maybe, by the time I bought the Libra 2 I'd developed certain tastes about the way I prefer an ereader to look and perform, hence the tinkering - again I needed help with the patches etc.
So it could just be the case that the first ereader one gets is tolerated as is. My old Sony 505 was used as the manufacturer intended, no tinkering at all. But the more experience, the more one is inclined to experiment with appearance and behaviour.
If a Kindle is your first ereader, you'll use it as is. If a Kobo is your first, you'll use that out of the box, though knowing how adaptable it is may eventually lead to customisation.