Libra Colour Pocket, Dropbox, or Google Drive?

[easterncoyote]

I really like the ability to send web articles to Pocket to read on my Libra Colour. It seems kind of hit and miss which articles can be sent to the Kobo. Has anyone tried using Dropbox or Google Drive for this? I would be interested in hearing how they work. Thank you.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by easterncoyote

I really like the ability to send web articles to Pocket to read on my Libra Colour. It seems kind of hit and miss which articles can be sent to the Kobo. Has anyone tried using Dropbox or Google Drive for this? I would be interested in hearing how they work. Thank you.

Not sure if this is even an option anymore, but when I played with Pocket years back when I looked at Articles, if the item wasn't listed there, it did not sync to my Kobo.

I've never tried using Dropbox or Google Drive but easy enough to try. Please let us know if either or both worked for you.

[Defenderland]

Originally Posted by easterncoyote

I really like the ability to send web articles to Pocket to read on my Libra Colour. It seems kind of hit and miss which articles can be sent to the Kobo. Has anyone tried using Dropbox or Google Drive for this? I would be interested in hearing how they work. Thank you.

I have returned the Colour after five months, bceause Pocket is like throwing a dice and therefore unuseable, and although Dropbox works fine, the Kobo can't handle ePubs correctly (cannot zoom into graphics).

[hatuluang]

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[compurandom]

Originally Posted by Defenderland

I have returned the Colour after five months, bceause Pocket is like throwing a dice and therefore unuseable, and although Dropbox works fine, the Kobo can't handle ePubs correctly (cannot zoom into graphics).

Works fine for me, you're just doing it wrong.

When I care about pictures in a web page I want to read on the kobo, I save it from the web browser, import it into calibre, use calibre's epub editor to run some saved rules to delete junk, and then have calibre send it to the kobo as a kepub which has zoomable images.

If there's a web page / blog that you visit regularly, it's possible to make a recipe (there's a lot that come with calibre) that can do all that automatically and do some pretty fancy automatic editing and even filter and inject missing images automatically.

You just didn't do enough research.

Also, web pages are messy, web designers like to find creative ways to make it difficult to read their pages offline. I think some of them break Pocket intentionally and they fill their pages with interactive stuff that looks terrible on an e-reader. All that stuff has to be cleaned out and handled separately for each web page. (Some of the simpler cleanup stuff is enough for maybe 60% of the web pages.)

[Defenderland]

Originally Posted by compurandom

Works fine for me, you're just doing it wrong.

When I care about pictures in a web page I want to read on the kobo, I save it from the web browser, import it into calibre, use calibre's epub editor to run some saved rules to delete junk, and then have calibre send it to the kobo as a kepub which has zoomable images.

If there's a web page / blog that you visit regularly, it's possible to make a recipe (there's a lot that come with calibre) that can do all that automatically and do some pretty fancy automatic editing and even filter and inject missing images automatically.

You just didn't do enough research.

Also, web pages are messy, web designers like to find creative ways to make it difficult to read their pages offline. I think some of them break Pocket intentionally and they fill their pages with interactive stuff that looks terrible on an e-reader. All that stuff has to be cleaned out and handled separately for each web page. (Some of the simpler cleanup stuff is enough for maybe 60% of the web pages.)

How old are you, that you have no sense of time and for productivity?

The IMPORTANT information for customers, when it comes to HUGE PROBLEMS of the Kobo software, is just buried in fanboism.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by Defenderland

How old are you, that you have no sense of time and for productivity?

The IMPORTANT information for customers, when it comes to HUGE PROBLEMS of the Kobo software, is just buried in fanboism.

Important for you, you mean. Doesn't mean it's important to everyone else. For example, I don't read web articles on my eink readers - as has been said, they're not really suitable for this. I read them on my laptop or tablet, with the backlight turned as low as possible to comfortably read and the warm tone added in artificial light. Works fine for me. But then I don't read web articles for 8 hours a day - mostly I read books. And those work very well on my Kobos.

If web articles are your main reading material, not ebooks, then IMO you should try a Nxtpaper tablet, not an eink device.

[Defenderland]

So many falsehoods, its incredible.
And a recommendation for Nxtpaper, which is LCD and unsuited to read outside in the sun.

People like you are the reason why I was tricked into buying a Kobo. You just have no clue about core usability.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by Defenderland

People like you are the reason why I was tricked into buying a Kobo. You just have no clue about core usability.

Reading web articles is not a core usability of ebook readers. Reading ebooks is.

[Defenderland]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Reading web articles is not a core usability of ebook readers. Reading ebooks is.

I have been doing this for 10 years with the Kindle.
You don't know what you are talking about.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by Defenderland

I have been doing this for 10 years with the Kindle.
You don't know what you are talking about.

Fine, then continue doing it with your Kindle.

I guess you want all of us to go with you, "Ah, oh, how horrible! Whatever is Kobo thinking!" But the fact is, most folks use their ereaders to read ebooks, not web articles. Personally, I couldn't care less about reading web content on my Kobos; I just don't do it and don't care if it's possible or not.

[Defenderland]

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[compurandom]

Originally Posted by Defenderland

How old are you, that you have no sense of time and for productivity?

Obviously you have a different viewpoint.

95% of the web articles I want to read work fine in pocket.

5% of them are either missing pictures or the whole article, and for some of those it is worth my time to take the 3 minutes to clean up the article to make it readable on my kobo.

If it works for you on your kindle, you should use a kindle and stop bothering us about kobos not doing what you want.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by Defenderland

Please have an IQ test!

I have. It's 140.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by Defenderland

So many falsehoods, its incredible.
And a recommendation for Nxtpaper, which is LCD and unsuited to read outside in the sun.

People like you are the reason why I was tricked into buying a Kobo. You just have no clue about core usability.

Web content isn't core usability for Kindle and Kobo eink. Re-flowable ebooks are.

The original Nxtpaper 1.0 wasn't bright enough for sunlight. The 2.0 certainly works in direct sunlight. Some are LCD and some are OLED.
Actually QLED (LCD with quantum dots by Samsung and TCL) is the brightest tech. OLED uses tiny electroluminescent dots and is more limited inherently than LCD which can use full size real LEDs as backlights.

I've used Kindle and Kobo for over 10 years. I've used the Internet before websites existed and was building websites from 1994.
I built a 4G VOIP phone sized tablet in the day job before the iPhone came out in 2007 (which didn't have copy/paste or 3G in Europe).

You have no idea what you are writing about. No-one here mis-sold you Kobo. Its core thing is ebooks. It does that better for some people than the Kindle. The Kindle is fine if you want mainly Amazon ebooks, Amazon sync and Anazon cloud. Inferior to Kobo, but works fine, for PD ebooks.