Touch Got My Touch !!

[taming]

For some reason, I am not having a ghosting problem this morning. I wish I knew why. Yesterday it was truly annoying--and it bothered me more and more as I read into the night.

[siraks]

went to pick up a case for the new touch yesterday because i was sad to find that the one for my wifi is too big.

well i purchased a new sleeve for the touch and it's super tight, very hard to get the kt in and out of this sleeve, hopefully the leather just needs to stretch after a couple of uses but i think they made it just a tad too small.

[siraks]

Originally Posted by Zoshka

Actually in this video the Kobo rep says they plan to increase the number of fonts. Fortunately, Georgia is my favorite font, so having that as the Kobo default font is ideal for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLXjD...eature=related

thanks.

i did notice how a few books had different fonts embedded when i opened them so through calibre one may be able to change to their desired font.

[nightfool]

Originally Posted by taming

When ghosting happens as I read, I go back one page, then go forward. The ghosting disappears (until it happens again).

It wasn't normal ghosting since I hardly notice that. It was seriously messed up, and no matter how many times I changed the page and book, it wouldn't clear up until I resetted the device.

Originally Posted by doodlydood

There are lots of good insights in here. I thought to share my own perspective, a self-avowed 'technophile' with a collection of ebooks.

I currently own the Kindle 3G, Nook Touch, and Kobo Touch. Went through most of the Sony readers too.

Kindle is my primary reader. I wanted - very much - to like the Kobo Touch. It has a lovely small casing, is easy to hand, and a great feature set. However, I am sending the Kobo back.

(1) The Font Rendering! The Kindle - on the same screen - achieves a crisp, sharp black, whilst the Kobo has an indecisive greyish tinge, and lots of ghosting as noted earlier. I want sharp text, and there is a clear difference here.

(2) The book organization. The Kobo supports no bookshelves, folders, or groups. For even my modest collection of 250 books this is too unwieldy.

These, coupled with the fact that there is no dictionary support for my own content make it a poor option compared to the Kindle 3G.

Too bad. I so wanted to keep it. Perhaps a software update will remedy this.

Those things annoy me too, especially the font rendering. But I'm willing to stay with it, since I don't have a kindle anymore. If you bought it in Chapters and you opened the box, I don't think Chapters accepts returns. It says on their website that they will only give you a refund if the box is sealed, and if it's opened they will only replace it with another one.

[jackastor]

Originally Posted by Tony1988

Same here. The tradeoff is ghosting. I would rather have the black page refresh every turn instead of ghosting. Like the Nook2 this may be a deal breaker, but we shall see.

I witnessed the ghosting on an N2 at BN. It was very annoying.

I have the kobo touch. I am very happy with it. There is no ghosting on it at any time. I have it loaded up with over 7000 books...

While this is not an android machine... it is strictly speaking a reader thats all it does. It does not play music, games, movies or video chat. It does the one thing i bought it for and it does it very well. It displays my books with its e-ink display. It does not need a fast processor as that would eat the battery away. IT does not have a back-lit display again that would kill the battery. It does not make fancy noises to get my attention, that would be annoying as heck, and it would eat the battery. Eink technology is not designed for fast refresh rates, its not designed for kick ass graphics so it seems to me that some people have too much high expectations from things.The kobo runs on linux and it runs on it well.

The battery life is good, the display is crisp and efficient. The look size weight is nice. I tried the very first kobo release and was not happy with it. I tested in the store the kobo wifi and was not happy with it. I tested the kobo touch, i tested the sony ereader lines, the curtis ereaders and they what i found is all ereaders preety much do the same thing. The sony was bulky, and well to be fair it was heavy. The display really was not impressive, the refresh rate well its nothing i was ever worried about as im reading a book.

Bottom line is the KOBO Touch right now is the best one out there.
So do your research on Eink and see where that leads you too. right now Eink tech works exactly as one would expect it too in all ereaders.

I am actually wondering if you actually have the KOBO touch or not. It doesnt matter much though because like any thing else its just an opinion and an opinion is not the gospal of truth its just a version that you create to justify soemthing to oneself thats all.


regards

[Poppaea]

Originally Posted by jackastor

The sony was bulky, and well to be fair it was heavy. The display really was not impressive, the refresh rate well its nothing i was ever worried about as im reading a book.

Happy you like your new reader. But what makes you say these things about the Sony??? The weight is nearly the same and the display is the same.

Sony 215g (7.6 oz.), 6" E Ink® Pearl

Kobo 200g (7.05 oz.), 6" E Ink® Pearl

[Toastedpine]

Originally Posted by jackastor

Eink technology is not designed for fast refresh rates, its not designed for kick ass graphics so it seems to me that some people have too much high expectations from things.The kobo runs on linux and it runs on it well.

In terms of graphics I was very pleasantly surprised. It makes a good manga/comic reader just because the lines (and more importantly the curves) come out so clearly. Interesting thing about pictures though, I took the same jpeg and wrapped it in PDF form, thinking that since PDF has zoom, reading the page would be better. Turns out, zipping the picture in a cbz somehow makes the same image, which was kinda faded looking in PDF form, really sharp in cbz, sharp enough that you don't need zoom for the most part.

Tablets are still the best hands down at reading most PDFs, but after reading on the Touch, I can see possibilities about how it can excel. It's a lot easier on the eyes, which makes it a great study tool. I've been toying with the idea of formatting rtfs so that they act like flash cards on the go since a tablet is too bulky to carry around, and it's not very good under the sun (adam included).

[zoran]

Originally Posted by jackastor

I have the kobo touch. I am very happy with it. There is no ghosting on it at any time. I have it loaded up with over 7000 books...

The very topic I'm interested in.
So far, I have almost 600 epub files to load to the reader. When got
first iteration of the device, it took almost 45 minutes to process about
200 files. Did it change with touch?
If the processing time is similar, I'd load some epubs now, some tomorrow,
some... Do you have some estimation how long you had it waiting?
Best regards all.

[Psyke]

Originally Posted by zoran

The very topic I'm interested in.
So far, I have almost 600 epub files to load to the reader. When got
first iteration of the device, it took almost 45 minutes to process about
200 files. Did it change with touch?
If the processing time is similar, I'd load some epubs now, some tomorrow,
some... Do you have some estimation how long you had it waiting?
Best regards all.

unfortunately no, it doesn't speed it up, if anything, it might be a little slower. the problem comes down to it creating entries on the kobo itself; it create 4 parsed files, which are used for particular pieces of the menu. I added about 100 books and I believe it was about 20-30 minutes for it to process, and the new one doesn't currently have a progress bar, so it's hard to determine how long it might take.

Of course the upside is, like the old kobo, it only has to process once for the added books, and will only do it afterwards for newly added books.

[Rizla]

Originally Posted by Poppaea

The weight is nearly the same...

Sony 215g (7.6 oz.), 6" E Ink® Pearl

Kobo 200g (7.05 oz.), 6" E Ink® Pearl

I'm surprised by this. I assumed the Sony 650 would be heavier because it's made of metal.

These are the figures I found for weight on Mobileread wiki:

Kindle: Weight: 8.7 ounces (247 grams)
Sony: Weight: 7.58 oz (215 grams)
Nook Touch:Weight: 7.48 ounces (212g)
Kobo Touch: Weight: 200g

According to this, the Kindle is the heaviest of the lot! I'm very surprised.

[Rizla]

Originally Posted by doodlydood

(1) The Font Rendering! The Kindle - on the same screen - achieves a crisp, sharp black, whilst the Kobo has an indecisive greyish tinge, and lots of ghosting as noted earlier. I want sharp text, and there is a clear difference here.

Maybe you can fix that with a custom font? Admittedly the Kindle out of the box font is the best. But customization fixes that in no time.

[Tony1988]

Originally Posted by Rizla

I'm surprised by this. I assumed the Sony 650 would be heavier because it's made of metal.

These are the figures I found for weight on Mobileread wiki:

Kindle: Weight: 8.7 ounces (247 grams)
Sony: Weight: 7.58 oz (215 grams)
Nook Touch:Weight: 7.48 ounces (212g)
Kobo Touch: Weight: 200g

According to this, the Kindle is the heaviest of the lot! I'm very surprised.

Actually the sony doesnt feel like metal to me. I wonder if it really is aluminum.

[jiminrussell]

Originally Posted by taming

For some reason, I am not having a ghosting problem this morning. I wish I knew why. Yesterday it was truly annoying--and it bothered me more and more as I read into the night.

Taming I hope your touch doesn't do the same as mine. I have had the ghosting problem you have mentioned (though I haven't seen the issue for a couple of days now) and tried to turn it on this morning and it would not turn on. The blue light flashed briefly and then nothing. I had 50-60% charge left when I turned it off last night so didn't think it could be dead battery but plugged it in anyway. Tried turning it on again and still nothing, left it plugged in for a few minutes and tried to turn it on again, flashed a couple of times and then black screen. Tried resetting it, still the same, flashes a couple of times and then black screen. Tried again about 15 minutes later and now seems to be working again so maybe the battery was dead but the icon for the battery is displaying about 75% charge now so if the battery was dead then there is something wrong with the battery charge indicator. I have no idea what is going on with this thing, I think I might go back to using my Kobo wifi if the problems with the Touch continue like this.

[taming]

I would exchange your Touch for another one, Jim. My problem was not the same, but perhaps related. Sameer and I wrote back and forth a bit about it, and we decided I should send it to him so that he could get to actually test a Touch that malfunctioned in the way mine did. Kobo sent me out a replacement.

They missed the overnight cut off, so I will be using my WiFi Kobo until Monday. Wow, it feels heavy, slow, and awkward to hold, in comparison.

[Psyke]

Originally Posted by Rizla

I'm surprised by this. I assumed the Sony 650 would be heavier because it's made of metal.

These are the figures I found for weight on Mobileread wiki:

Kindle: Weight: 8.7 ounces (247 grams)
Sony: Weight: 7.58 oz (215 grams)
Nook Touch:Weight: 7.48 ounces (212g)
Kobo Touch: Weight: 200g

According to this, the Kindle is the heaviest of the lot! I'm very surprised.

No surprised at all, considering it has a full hardware keyboard; once they drop that (and I'm sure they will in their next version), it probably be very comparable to the kobo and nook touch. The lightest of them though is actually the Sony pocket edition, wich comes in about 160g or so if I remember right, but of course it's a 5" screen.