Convince me please.

[pacman]

I went for the Forma. Really pleased with how it looks and feels. Pricey but no regrets.

Originally Posted by pacman

I went for the Forma. Really pleased with how it looks and feels. Pricey but no regrets.

Good call. Please update the thread with your review after using a bit. Interested to hear what you like, don't like.

Did you go with the 32GB or 8GB version?

I was initially tempted to go with 32GB back when I got my Forma, then I rethought that. A good recent example discussion of why is in this thread about how to organize your kindle library. You'll see sort of a consensus emerging about how a lot of people organize their books on their devices--which would apply to your Forma as much as to a Kindle. The consensus is: don't spend much time trying to do a lot of collection-munging and book organizing ON your devices themselves. It usually doesn't work great, takes a lot of time, and doesn't transfer to your other devices very well anyway. Instead, just keep a smaller set of books on the device at any given time (so you can find stuff easier), keep your larger collection in Calibre, and do all your tagging, organizing, and book searching of your collection there. So in the end, I found the 8GB Forma had plenty of storage, given I use it that way.

[pacman]

Originally Posted by maximus83

Good call. Please update the thread with your review after using a bit. Interested to hear what you like, don't like.

Did you go with the 32GB or 8GB version?

I was initially tempted to go with 32GB back when I got my Forma, then I rethought that. A good recent example discussion of why is in this thread about how to organize your kindle library. You'll see sort of a consensus emerging about how a lot of people organize their books on their devices--which would apply to your Forma as much as to a Kindle. The consensus is: don't spend much time trying to do a lot of collection-munging and book organizing ON your devices themselves. It usually doesn't work great, takes a lot of time, and doesn't transfer to your other devices very well anyway. Instead, just keep a smaller set of books on the device at any given time (so you can find stuff easier), keep your larger collection in Calibre, and do all your tagging, organizing, and book searching of your collection there. So in the end, I found the 8GB Forma had plenty of storage, given I use it that way.

8gb, I felt this enough. That said as you elude to, I've gone a bit nuts and filled it up nearly. Now I keep jumping from book to book without finishing them. I will heed your advice and use Calibre a bit more sensibly. I love the shelves tip which really speeds up adding specialist collections. But I need to be brutal with what I intend to read as opposed to what I think I might read.

Are the patches of much use I read some of the tut's but wasn't clear on what they do exactly?

Originally Posted by pacman

Are the patches of much use I read some of the tut's but wasn't clear on what they do exactly?

Patching is useful if you have some specific setting or behavior you want to tweak but cannot do so given the available settings. Some folks enjoy using patching, but it appears to me that most don't find it necessary to patch, and I haven't yet either. I've been able to accomplish any tweaks or added features I wanted by using two other approaches that are simpler: (1) enabling developer mode--which gives you access to more settings--or (2) installing the KOReader app (or the Plato app), which gives you a lot more settings and fine-grained control over the rendering styles and reading features, vs the built-in Kobo software.

But in the end, I still mostly use the built-in Kobo software. I use KOReader for special-case things it's better at, like reading PDF's, and think it has a lot of promise as the devs are responsive to community and keep adding features. But I find for most ordinary reading needs, I still prefer Kobo. It tends to be very performant with snappy loading and rendering of even very large, complex books. And if using the native .kepub format for your books, you'll get some nice value-add features.