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Originally Posted by Katti's Cat
It's difficult enough for us downunder to see one in real life - and having a hands-on experience makes the decisions usually so much easier.
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I expect the Kobo will do (comparitively) well in Australia for this reason. Before yesterday I had only ever seen one ereader "in the flesh", which was a Kindle I saw someone using on a train.
A friend recently returned from two weeks in the UK and US, and says he saw four people using Kindles in that time period. Considering that I catch two trains and two trams every day, I take the fact I've seen only one Kindle to mean that ereader market penetration in Australia has been very minimal.
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Originally Posted by tech_au
I won't be buying a kobo reader from them but maybe an ebook or two if they fixed their absolutely appalling search engine.
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Also the lack of categories is frustrating (Fiction, and Non-Fiction. No Sci Fi, Horror, Crime, Childrens, etc).
Once you drill down to the Fiction section, I'm not sure what logic dictates the order books are displayed in. With one exception all the books on the first page of results are out-of-copyright works. Sure, their $2.95 price tag might be appealing (if it weren't that the same ebooks are available for free elsewhere!), but seeing a bunch of public domain books hardly gets me fired up about Border's selection. I'd prefer it if there were an options to filter by release date, publish date, popularity, genre and so forth.