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draj · 05-21-2010, 08:09 PM

Hi,

I've been lurking for awhile and as I had a kobo and returned it and am now thinking about buying a prs-300, I thought I'd add my voice to the thread.

I bought a kobo reader ten days ago and today I returned it. The primary reason I returned it was the battery did not work as advertised. I only got approx. 500 page turns per charge. I also found the lack of collections and problem with font size (though the person I spoke to at chapters said that the upcoming update should fix some of the problems). The kobo software was also awful, though the fix for it is to use Calibre. My primary problem was with the battery and the different answers I kept receiving from the kobo help line. First I was told that there was a problem, then later that week I was told that perhaps the reader's stated 8000 page turns was overstated (?), and then two days ago I was told that yes the reader should get 8000 page turns.

Anyways, I went with the kobo initially because of the price and the fact I wanted a bare bones reader as my first device. I liked the sony pocket reader that I borrowed from a friend a few months ago but it was too expensive. I also found it to be faster in terms of page turns than the kobo (though this my subjective opinion and I suspect one is not actually faster than the other). While the sony prs-300 is not as cheap as it seems to be in the US (best price I've found in Canada is 179) at the moment, the price has dropped in the last couple of months and I think I'll end up buying one because as another poster put it, it works! Also, it is a lot more sturdy in construction than the kobo, which I found to be kind of flimsy/ fragile because of the plastic front and buttons that stuck out.

05-21-2010, 08:09 PM	#32
draj Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Edmonton, Canada Device: Sony prs-300	Hi, I've been lurking for awhile and as I had a kobo and returned it and am now thinking about buying a prs-300, I thought I'd add my voice to the thread. I bought a kobo reader ten days ago and today I returned it. The primary reason I returned it was the battery did not work as advertised. I only got approx. 500 page turns per charge. I also found the lack of collections and problem with font size (though the person I spoke to at chapters said that the upcoming update should fix some of the problems). The kobo software was also awful, though the fix for it is to use Calibre. My primary problem was with the battery and the different answers I kept receiving from the kobo help line. First I was told that there was a problem, then later that week I was told that perhaps the reader's stated 8000 page turns was overstated (?), and then two days ago I was told that yes the reader should get 8000 page turns. Anyways, I went with the kobo initially because of the price and the fact I wanted a bare bones reader as my first device. I liked the sony pocket reader that I borrowed from a friend a few months ago but it was too expensive. I also found it to be faster in terms of page turns than the kobo (though this my subjective opinion and I suspect one is not actually faster than the other). While the sony prs-300 is not as cheap as it seems to be in the US (best price I've found in Canada is 179) at the moment, the price has dropped in the last couple of months and I think I'll end up buying one because as another poster put it, it works! Also, it is a lot more sturdy in construction than the kobo, which I found to be kind of flimsy/ fragile because of the plastic front and buttons that stuck out.