E-Book reader for holidays

[Wiggo]

Thank you both!

[BookCat]

I have an origami case on my kobo, though it was a cheaper one than kobo sell, and never use the origami folding function. Instead, a very inexpensive mobile phone stand which can be angled is more useful.

I've just ordered a case with a solid front. If my cat put her paw on the front of the origami case while it's lying flat, she'd put her paw into the screen. At least that's what I think; whereas a solid cover will give more protection, and can still be stood using the moby stand, which was about £3 for two.

[Wiggo]

See you later in the Kobo sub-forum

[Wiggo]

First impression

• It is quite light
• Transfer from Calibre is easy
• Screen is sharp and responds fairly quickly
• Page change is fast
• Dictionaries are more or less, rather less, ok
• You can almost forget about looking something up on the internet
• Reading in the sun is insane, it works very very well.
• I can't zoom in on the maps in my novel (very annoying). I seem to need kepub after all
• My travel guide PDFs don't work bad at all, but still nothing compared to the iPhone 12 max.

tldr; very good in the sunlight, at home not

Edit:
I managed to get kepub. Much better with the images

[Ned]

Don't forget to add the clock and battery to your header with Nickel Clock

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by Ned

Don't forget to add the clock and battery to your header with Nickel Clock

Not needed. Those are 1 tap away. The only patch/addition I found worthwhile (other than edit of Kobo Reader.conf) was KOReader for the Elipsa. But I removed it now that there is PDF zoom lock. I don't even have a header or footer on on smaller Kobos, only the progress bar. I only have the header & footer on the Sage and Elipsa.

Kobo works so well with Calibre.

It's so easy to find your books on a Kobo. I only use kepub for tests, so don't need the patch to match epub and kepub sizes.

Certainly there are things on the Nook or Kindle that need changed more than anything on my Sony PRS-350, but the value of the Kobo is that though it's not locked down like a Kindle there is really no need to patch anything or install extra programs.

I've had or have 8 brands of ereaders, have had or tried 6 different Kobo models, 2 different Sonys, 3 different Binatones and 7 different Kindles. Also tested many ereader apps on Android from Android 4 to Android 10 and screen 4.3" to 10". So I 've got a basis to compare.

[Wiggo]

I recently patched my Libra2 out of curiosity and installed NM and the KOreader without that KFMon.
On holiday I only got to read one book, but now I've just finished reading my second one on an e-ink and have to say that I'm starting to appreciate my Kobo.

If you just want to read without looking up pictures or anything on the internet, the compactness, light weight and buttons for page turning is really not bad.
With my KePubs, the word spacing in justification and hyphenation is sometimes a bit large, but it didn't bother me too much. (Marvin3 on iOS works better).

The fact that the KOreader doesn't have an integrated browser is an absolute anti-feature for me, I'd rather stay with the native one.

tl;dr I like the Kobo more and more