You Should Buy an Android E-Reader

[pefilix]

main screen changed after complients. okay. translating user interface with google translate unacceptable. pdf performance crap because they dont care is pdf performance good. not about low specs, how koreader handle pdfs with same specs? for epubs do you have fine control on right left top bottom margins, font size, word spacing, line spacing without patch. i will check this updating my kobo glo hd.

anyway, go for android. with android you can costumize every thing without any effort. large customize alternatives makes it fit all sizes. and you have more useful device.

[Uncle Robin]

It's all about personal taste. It's tediously clear that YOU like using an android reader, that doesn't mean that others "should". What works you for may not suit others. I, for one, have no interest at all in spending money on an android ereader. I already HAVE two capable Android devices, my phone and my tablet, and my Kobo ereader is perfect for my ereading requirements.

[trence]

I agree about Android being the best option, as well. Koreader is my favorite reading app, but the screen quality on the Kobos I've tried were lacking and they all got returned.

Also Bluetooth is great if your hands get tired.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by pefilix

main screen changed after complients. okay. translating user interface with google translate unacceptable.

I doubt the translations are done using google. But, I do know they fix translation errors when they are reported. Though, I do know they sometimes have problems fitting the translations o the screen, so some aren't ideal

pdf performance crap because they dont care is pdf performance good. not about low specs, how koreader handle pdfs with same specs?

Well, for one thing they don't have to worry about DRM. So, they can use whatever libraries they want.

for epubs do you have fine control on right left top bottom margins, font size, word spacing, line spacing without patch. i will check this updating my kobo glo hd.

Except for the top and bottom margins, Kobo have a lot of fine-tuning. But, of course, it is never going to meet every ones desires.

anyway, go for android. with android you can costumize every thing without any effort. large customize alternatives makes it fit all sizes. and you have more useful device.

There is a problem with this statement. It isn't "Andriod" that does this. Afterall, tolino devices are all based on Android and they have less customisation option than a Kobo devices. It is the chosen reading app that is important. And that requires that you can find an app that does the customisation that is important to you, without messing other things up.

[pefilix]

Originally Posted by Uncle Robin

It's all about personal taste. It's tediously clear that YOU like using an android reader

actually i prefer an oparating system coded and designed especially for e-reading too. but there must be some features.

detailed and fine settings on page layout. can set hypnation dictioanary. one click backup and restore without 3rd party software or device. easy to edit book meta on device. shelf navigation. useful interface.

[pazos]

Originally Posted by davidfor

Well, for one thing they don't have to worry about DRM. So, they can use whatever libraries they want.

Yup, MuPDF is fast. I never worked with DRM schemes and I don't know exactly what I'm talking about but I guess Kobo could be using MuPDF too. Using whatever kind of provided software to grant access to the pdf and, instead of rendering it using webkit, send it via a pipe so it can be proccesed by that library.

But manufacturers prefeer MIT/BSD licensed libraries, because merging AGPL software would make them obligated to release the entire source of nickel.

[Pajamaman]

Originally Posted by davidfor

Kobo have also spent a lot of time advertising their devices as "open". They pointed out you could get books from a lot of places and put them on their devices. They don't place as much emphasis on this now, but, sideloading books is still well supported.

I didn't know they advertised "open" as a selling point. I figured for a while that they dimply hadn't bothered to locked it down, but I guess that's not the case. Kindle and Sony before them go to a lot of trouble locking stuff down. Nook is also pretty open. Thank heavens for open stuff. You say Kobo handle pdf well, but I doubt it works as well as koreader. Fortunately Kobo is open and can run koreader.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by Pajamaman

I didn't know they advertised "open" as a selling point. I figured for a while that they dimply hadn't bothered to locked it down, but I guess that's not the case. Kindle and Sony before them go to a lot of trouble locking stuff down. Nook is also pretty open. Thank heavens for open stuff. You say Kobo handle pdf well, but I doubt it works as well as koreader. Fortunately Kobo is open and can run koreader.

To be clear, the "open" is about books, not the software or device. They used to make it clear that books could come from anywhere.

The openness of the software is more because I don't think they see a point in locking it down. But, they also don't do anything to make it easy, and do not consider it to be their problem if a change they make breaks someone's hack.

[Quoth]

Sony wrecked minidisc, especially for laptop use with their stupid lockdown. Also their MG flash cards, removal of Linux from PS/*. Because they are Media/Publisher, their formats and HW are broken with DRM obsession.

Amazon is a retailer and datahosting provider. They also are obsessive on DRM, even adding it when the publisher says no.

Both are really bad examples.

Because Barnes & Noble is a bookseller, they obsessed with DRM on Nook. Changed it that bought books were on a hidden partition? What's open about them?

[Pajamaman]

Originally Posted by davidfor

To be clear, the "open" is about books, not the software or device. They used to make it clear that books could come from anywhere.

The openness of the software is more because I don't think they see a point in locking it down. But, they also don't do anything to make it easy, and do not consider it to be their problem if a change they make breaks someone's hack.

Okay. It is as thought. Indifference and neglect rather then design. The same with Nook. Hopefully their indifference continues. I wonder why Sony and Amazon spend so much time locking down the OS when Kobo and Nook don't bother. Google don't do ereaders, but they are progressively locking down Android.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by Pajamaman

Okay. It is as thought. Indifference and neglect rather then design. The same with Nook. Hopefully their indifference continues.

That is definitely not what I said.