Which reader for best library management and in-book navigation?

[Yar-PocketBooker]

Originally Posted by kacir

[LIST]

Oh ...
One more thing.
At the end of March there will [I hope] be new model PocketBook Touch 622 available. With capacitive multi-touch pearl screen. The first youtube videos of actual devices look very promising.
But! Do. Not. Hold. Your. Breath. This is just a promise from PocketBook company. They might decide to wait with introduction for particular market like they did several times in the past.

AFAIK, they will not be imported to the USA, anyway...

[Yar-PocketBooker]

If you tweak Sony's firmware a little tiny bit, it does miracles.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Skydog

Sony's customer support is among the worst. If you must have native ePub support, go with Kobo or a Nook.

I disagree. I've dealt with Sony CS and it's been fine.

[Jaden]

Originally Posted by Shopaholic

Kobo is a horrid device, poor user interface, lousy device software & glitchy like crazy! There's tons of threads on it.

I have none of these problems with my Kobo. It's not a "horrid device".

The user interface is actually quite nice, as is the software.

There are things that could be better (like missing shelves, translation dictionaries need an update), but the actual reading experience is very nice. I rarely have a dead tap or double page turn, maybe 1 or 2 in 100 page turns (and that can always happen with touch screens).

What I like best is that you can use tapping to browse, select three different "tap area settings", change the font, font size, margins and line spacing. You can add your own fonts as well.

And hopefully in a new update there will be shelves and maybe some of the other wishes (like more tap areas) and bug fixes as well for those that experience them (I'm lucky not to have these problems, not saying there aren't any).

Best would be if you could look at the devices your most instereted in "in person". I did that and decided to get the Kobo - and haven't regretted it.

I use the plugin as well, which makes my Kobo even better.

[JSWolf]

The Kobo STILL has a very SERIOUS bug pertaining to embedded fonts. Kobo has been told of this but refuses to fix it. With this bug, it's off the list of approved devices.

[Jaden]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The Kobo STILL has a very SERIOUS bug pertaining to embedded fonts. Kobo has been told of this but refuses to fix it. With this bug, it's off the list of approved devices.

What exactly?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Jaden

What exactly?

The way to do embedded fonts is to place the font-face in the body style. That activates the font. It's how most ePub are made that have embedded fonts. Publishers do it that way. Kobo ignores the font-face if it's part of the body. So this breaks most embedded fonts.

[Zetmolm]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The way to do embedded fonts is to place the font-face in the body style. That activates the font. It's how most ePub are made that have embedded fonts. Publishers do it that way. Kobo ignores the font-face if it's part of the body. So this breaks most embedded fonts.

So that means I can choose my own font rather than being forced to use the publisher's one? Great! If I had a Kobo I'd hope they never fix this!

[Jaden]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The way to do embedded fonts is to place the font-face in the body style. That activates the font. It's how most ePub are made that have embedded fonts. Publishers do it that way. Kobo ignores the font-face if it's part of the body. So this breaks most embedded fonts.

Sounds like that's a missing feature, not a bug - much like the missing ePub support of the Kindle is not a bug, but simple a feature that is not there.

Maybe they'll add embedded fonts support in the future. (Though I don't really care, I must admit.)

But hopefully I will be able to override pre-selected fonts since that's one thing I enjoy about ebooks - I can select a font I like.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Zetmolm

So that means I can choose my own font rather than being forced to use the publisher's one? Great! If I had a Kobo I'd hope they never fix this!

It means you can't have nice looking ePub from the publisher. If you were to read 11/22/63 on a Kobo, it would look awful. It has multiple embedded fonts and given the Kobo bug, it would not be correct and it does look very nice using the fonts that the publisher used.

You think this is a good thing, but it's really not. It's just a bug that makes the Kobo a waste of time to bother with.

[Jaden]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

You think this is a good thing, but it's really not. It's just a bug that makes the Kobo a waste of time to bother with.

It still isn't a bug per se, but a missing feature.

Not saying that it's not a desirable feature, but it doesn't make the Kobo a horrid device or any such thing.

The Kobo might not be a device for you, but it is a nice reader.

And some people simply don't care that some ebooks won't have embedded fonts (most don't have them anyway). No e-reader is perfect. And some books just don't really "work" all that well in e-format.

[Shopaholic]

Originally Posted by Jaden

I have none of these problems with my Kobo. It's not a "horrid device".

It is very much a personal choice but a great many people, myself included, detest the Kobo for many reasons.

[Jaden]

Originally Posted by Shopaholic

It is very much a personal choice but a great many people, myself included, detest the Kobo for many reasons.

There are also people who like or even love the Kobo. So who is right and who is wrong?

No one (or everyone) is.

As you've said, it is very much a personal choice.

You may detest the Kobo, of course. Though I think that detest is such a strong word and feeling... IMHO wasted on such a rather trivial matter like e-reader preferences.

Of course it's okay to dislike something. There are a lot of things I don't like. I'm just trying not to make other people feel bad about their choices and preferences. Which does not mean that I don't tell people why I dislike something.

[kacir]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

It means you can't have nice looking ePub from the publisher.

The ability of my reader of choice to override any font that publisher choose is by large margin my most favorite feature. I personally want to set the font, fontsize, margins, *justification*, first line indentation, line spacing and hyphenation to precise values I want.

My reader can also display epubs with all publisher included bells and whistles, but I haven't seen any book that I would prefer to read this way.

So, Your Mileage May Vary.

[soulfuldog]

"a waste of time to bother with", "a great many people detest the Kobo".

Why such a strong feeling? I can understand not really liking it and/or preferring other e-readers, but these kind of comments seem very strong?!