Looking to possibly move from Kindle PW2 to Kobo

[DuckieTigger]

Originally Posted by meeera

I'm not sure what you mean by this. The collections and search features work very well indeed. I have no trouble finding one book amongst thousands.

That is if you already know which book to look for. If you don't know which book to look for and there is thousands of books it will get more complicated, especially if it is a mixed genre.

[meeera]

Originally Posted by DuckieTigger

That is if you already know which book to look for. If you don't know which book to look for and there is thousands of books it will get more complicated, especially if it is a mixed genre.

I can't quite picture the scenario you're talking about. You want to read a specific book, but you have no idea of any words in the title, the author's name, the series, and you haven't put it in a collection - but you need to read that particular book right now? That's not really a problem that has a technical solution.

[DuckieTigger]

Originally Posted by meeera

I can't quite picture the scenario you're talking about. You want to read a specific book, but you have no idea of any words in the title, the author's name, the series, and you haven't put it in a collection - but you need to read that particular book right now? That's not really a problem that has a technical solution.

Not on the device, no. If your mood right now asks for a suburban romantic horror story and you have 3 collections (suburban, horror, romance) each with hundreds of books it will be hard. On the computer you could search for a book that is in all 3 collections, on device not so much.

[meeera]

Originally Posted by DuckieTigger

Not on the device, no. If your mood right now asks for a suburban romantic horror story and you have 3 collections (suburban, horror, romance) each with hundreds of books it will be hard. On the computer you could search for a book that is in all 3 collections, on device not so much.

Oh, right. If I found myself in that situation I'd probably grab the goodreads app on my phone, I guess. It's not really something that's ever happened to me - my usual way of picking my next book is that I've placed the 20 or 30 books I want to read soonest into a collection, then I peek at that. Or go to my Netgalley folder and choose the next book from there.

[TonyGamble]

Barry makes the important point that many people look for an ereader that is easy to read on and easy to carry around. For them organisation is not a big issue.

I have come to ereading late in life. I am a photographer and am conversant with computers and tablet as they are an essential tool for my trade. I travel with an Android phone and an Android tablet. The latter also doubles as a device for viewing the images I shoot and also as a Satnav in my car. I also found I could buy ebooks and read them on the tablet.

Where the tablet suffers is because I bought the one with the (banned in Europe) AMOLED screen it is pretty useless in sunlight. As an experiment I bought a Sony T1. I rooted it and loaded an email system. It already had a browser. Had it worked I could almost have ditched the Android tablet and even followed the hack that can turn it into a satnav.

What I learnt fast is that the T1 is not a computer like an Android tablet. Its processing power is pretty poor. So I put it in a drawer and forgot I had it.

A month ago my wife had an operation on her right hand that made it hard for her to hold even light paperbacks. As an experiment I dug out the T1 and loaded her current novel. To my surprise she took to the T1 instantly - and this is a lady who is the least computerate I have ever had the pleasure of meeting.

We are now a four Kindle family. Why four? Because we travel a lot and are frightened as to what happens if one or other of our Kindles die or get lost.

We tried the H2O and it was sent back within two days as my wife preferred the size of the Kindle.

I have Calibre. I can do all the organising we/I need within that. We don't have a library of a thousand books - but if we did (a) I can organise them with Calibre and (b) we don't need all thousand on holiday.

For our holidays all we 'need' to take is much the same thought process as what we used to do putting paperbacks in the suitcase.

If you need a fully flexible library organiser then you probably need something smarter than an ereader - such as an Android device.

OK. Much of what I have said is the same as Barry. But I felt it might help as I came to my decisions by a slightly different route.

Tony

[irishmac473]

I switched from Kindle to Kobo and love it. The only thing I miss on the Kindle is the X-ray feature. I bought the H2O and really enjoy the bigger screen. I second what other people have said about ordering from Chapters. I tried ordering from Kobo and after almost 2 weeks without a device yet I canceled my order and ordered from Chapters. Got the H2O in 3 days from chapters. With Calibre I have had no problem with loading my Amazon books over to my Kobo.

[barryem]

Originally Posted by meeera

I'm not sure what you mean by this. The collections and search features work very well indeed. I have no trouble finding one book amongst thousands.

Collections sort of do that but on my Kindle with it's less than 20 books I can bring up any book almost instantly. With my neighbor's Kindle with several collections and hundreds of books it's possible to find a book in a few minutes but a search will do it much faster. Still, finding a book on my Kindle is many times faster than doing it with a search on hers. On mine I find the book as soon as I look. With hers I type and find a few books which probably include the one we're looking for.

She's perfectly happy with hundreds of books on her Kindle and it is hers so that's fine. But that would drive me up a wall.

Barry