Quote:
Originally Posted by Desertway
Nearly all my paid books come from Kobo. Great coupons. No problem with search since I always know the author and title of what I'm looking for.
Useless? No reason? It seems that a keyboard would be quite useful for annotations, Google and Wikipedia lookups, as well as the rudimentary web and email functions of the Kindle. I don't have a Kindle and I'm not interested in those features, but plenty of people are.
|
Even knowing what I want, I find Kobo a pain. Example, I *really* wanted The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay. Type Bryce Courtenay into the search -- you get 500 results, of which not a single one is a book by him. Type Power of One into the search -- again 500 results, not one being the book I'm looking for. Now Fictionwise. Type Bryce Courtenay into author search -- no results. Not what I hoped for, but at least an easy answer. Type Power of One into title search -- only one result. It isn't the book I wanted either, but is only one result to scroll through and does have power of one all in the title.
I had only a Kindle for my first 18 months of e-reading and the keyboard was a waste to me. The only use it ever got was to scroll through a list of titles. And every other ereader I've had allows just as efficient scrolling, even without a keyboard.
As to using it for note taking, if you could use that crappy keyboard for more than a short sentence you have more patience than me. The keyboard on my phone works better and is half the size. For any serious note taking you really need a decent and responsive touch screen or a real keyboard. To type in something short like a URL or search term a virtual keyboard is fine. The Kindle keyboard is neither one nor the other -- functions about as well as a virtual keyboard but takes up as a lot of space.
-Marcy