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Originally Posted by meeera
A few things that may or may not be important to you:
- Font management. Out of the box, you can load your own fonts onto a Kobo. Some people find the Kindle fonts hideous. But not all people.
- Library books: no Kindle borrowing in Australian public libraries, as far as I know; whereas you can borrow epubs that you put through Adobe Digital Editions for your Kobo.
- Not a huge difference between store ranges, except for Amazon-exclusive books (I don't know if they're a dealbreaker interest for you). Kindle is generally a slightly cheaper list price, but the Kobobooks discount thread means that the savvy shopper usually can get cheaper books at Kobo.
- Collection management is far better on the Kobo, with the use of Calibre.
- Once you do have Calibre set up to manage your books and your collections, it really is trivial to install DRM-cleansing (which we can't detail here), which means that shopping anywhere is easy, and a later change in device won't make your purchases useless.
- Just to check that you know this, because it's not quite clear from your post: you factory reset at home with button presses, you don't need to take it anywhere.
- Both are decent devices and odds are you'll be happy with either purchase, if no dealbreakers (like the library thing) surprise you afterwards.
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Hi Meeera. I had no idea that I wouldn't be able to borrow library ebooks on a Kindle -- my local library set up ebook borrowing a few months ago, so I had definitely planned on taking advantage of that!
That's a big plus to the Kobo and a big minus to the Kindle... I think that alone may push me towards buying the Kobo.
