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Originally Posted by MDMullins
And I have no problem with those opinions, but all the things you suggested that a Kobo can do are a bug and not a feature for me. I don't want to spend time tweaking the device; I want to spend time reading, and Kindle does that almost magically, staying out of my way, not bothering me, not requiring me to think about anything but reading.
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For me, I was happy for years reading on a bog standard Kobo. I added NickelMenu to allow things like ejecting and reconnecting without needing to pull the USB cable out. Since quite a few people were rhapsodizing about KOReader and Plato and installing them was pretty trivial, I added them.
I've also popped my Kobos open to make images of the internal storage as backups and to replace the internal storage with a larger card. For my sins, I've now ending up managing the image repository.
The only KoboPatch tweak I make use of is the one to have the font size in the two renderers close to the same. Once done, I don't need to think about it when switching between the two renderers.
I do edit most of the epubs I read for consistent font sizes, indented paragraphs, removing dropcaps, removing those stupid chapter headers that chew up 75% of a page, setting the default margin to 0, etc. Using my saved searches in Sigil keeps the time to do this to most books in the 5-10 minute range.
Bit of background, I spent years as an electronic tech and built several computers from magazines such as Radio-Electronics and Popular Electronics. I then moved into computers as a career and spend more years that I can to think about working with computers and then networks and data centers. I spend my last years as a network/server/storage/virtualization administrator with a sideline in computer forensics.