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Old 12-11-2023, 01:09 PM   #14
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You only need epub and PDF (for things you get in PDF, or to proof layout for POD). Calibre will convert anything other than PDF to epub, and azw3, docx, mobi, txt etc are pretty good to perfect depending on source. Then an epub can be edited.
Images are better embedded in an ePub with CSS setting size as a percent of screen width or height.

The AAAA cells can last 6 months of use, one in a drawer can last 10 years and if you are really stingy you can get six almost AAAA out of a cheap alkaline 9v 6LR61 pack (some PP3 packs use layer cells, but they are really 6F22) The nub in cells in side a pack is the -Ve, keep the strip on the flat + end to make a nub for +.

I've registered Kobos with real (unique) and fake email. In nearly 8 years no emails till I used the real one to buy a book from Kobo (only the receipt). Kobo is a Japanese owned (Rakuten) Canadian company. Not Silicon Valley or China!

People overstate the battery issue. MS actually used the host powered Wacom on the first two Surface Tablets and the NTrig pen is so much better they bought the company. Kobo seems to be using the same pen. It's pressure sensitive and two buttons. Most makes use different nibs, which are meant to wear so as to not damage screen, but after over a year I've not needed to change a nib. I've used 3 makes of pen inc the official Kobo on one Elipsa and 5 off Sage (4 with other family members).

Native mobi and txt is terrible on Kobo, and mobi is terrible on everything except Kindle. It's very very limited HTML3 with inline styles, so converting to epub2 with Calibre and if needed, clean up a bit in editor. Even for Kindle: mobi -> epub2 (clean up) -> azw3 is best.

The Sage is 8″ 1440 x 1920 (300 dpi) and very much lighter than Elipsa. Claims of poor battery life only apply compared to Kindle PW3 or Kobo Libra. It's totally adequate battery and charges often in 45 to 50 minutes.

The Elipsa (2) is 10.3″ 1404x1872 (227 dpi) and heavy. I've not used notes on it since getting the Sage and only occasionally checked layout of PDFs for POD. Most 3rd party PDFs are readable on the Sage, which is higher resolution. Both can crop the white space margins on PDFs.
I seriously considered the Kindle Scribe, later, due to the 300 dpi, but it's essentially unusable without "sharing" everything to Amazon and it needs fixed layout KFX to annotate PDFs and has no native writing conversion. A walled garden worse than an iPad, which you can natively annotate PDFs (paid version of Nebo, which Kobo uses) or use an Advanced notebook with local conversion to text (Free version of Nebo).
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