05-24-2018, 04:19 AM | #1 |
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Pocketbook Inkpad 3 vs Kobo Aura One
I'd be very interested to hear which one you'd go for between these, and why.
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05-24-2018, 05:47 AM | #2 |
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I have Pocketbook Inkpad 2 which has a 8" screen, but a bit older software. I also have Touch HD, which has a 6" screen, but its software is as new as in Inkpad 3, the newest Pocketbook.
I have never had a Kobo thus far, but everything I have heard about it tells me that the pdf reading experience is very bad on Kobo. If you read pdf files, Pocketbook is a better pick in terms of software (particularly the inbuilt reader app). In terms of hardware, there should be no notable difference between Pocketbook Inkpad 3 and Kobo Aura One, except that Pocketbook comes with buttons, page turn keys. I like page turn keys very much. On Kobo you have to rely entirely on the touchscreen. Another notable difference between the two is that Pocketbook's cover is about three times cheaper. I consider the cover an absolute necessity, particularly on bigger ereaders. (The good thing with Onyxes is that covers are included in the price, a minor point but worth considering). If you still buy a Kobo Aura One (because why not, it's water resistant after all, and that might come in handy), then here's how to make it usable with pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2oSOeAnD10 |
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05-26-2018, 12:24 AM | #3 | |
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It uses K2pdfopt' engine for the reflow of the scanned pdf images. http://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/ Original covers at about 50 euros are pretty expensive, but there are nice 10-20 euros covers available on the net. Last edited by Marinolino; 05-26-2018 at 03:51 AM. |
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05-30-2018, 11:00 AM | #4 | |
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Software-wise, I can now say from experience that the only good thing about Kobo is Koreader. Koreader works on it like a charm. Which is nice. On Pocketbook, Koreader does not work with equal charm, e.g. screensavers are glitchy, but everything that matters still works. And even without Koreader, Pocketbook is fully usable. For example: To start up a Kobo, you evidently must first of all connect to wifi and log in/create a Rakuten account. In Pocketbook you can skip this step, go to the home screen and just start reading (it comes with some free books pre-stored on the drive). Much better first impression. There is one important (important to me) missing feature in Koreader: It cannot do arbitrary columns when the pdf consists of, for example, old-time newspaper with five or more irregular columns, feuilletons and whatnot. Pocketbook's inbuilt reader can navigate those very well. If Koreader implements this, it could very well be the app to meet all the needs. Last edited by mobama; 05-30-2018 at 02:45 PM. |
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05-31-2018, 08:03 AM | #5 | |
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Koreader should not really have those problems because k2pdfopt has got 4-column modes and Koreader in my Kindle DX has got all the necessary additional zooming options, so, it would probably be a trivial thing just to change its default setting from 2 to 4 columns. In the meantime those who have got a lot of these 3-4-5 column documents can quickly and easily crop those pdfs using free applications like Briss and k2pdfopt beforehand, and then transfer those cropped pdfs to Kobo or any other e-reader they own if they are not satisfied either with its cropping ability of multiple-column pdfs, the speed of page flipping thereafter, ability to use dictionaries, scribblings thereafter etc. http://briss.sourceforge.net http://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/ e.g. Attached pdf is 3-column document cropped with Briss (I've just copied the same page several times to make it bigger document and it was a matter of seconds for Briss to crop it after I've selected the overlapping areas). I've cropped it on purpose including the part of the next column, so that it is smaller text-width size in portraite mode (12 cm on Kobo Aura One) and as a kind of orientation during the reading/flipping. We should use k2pdfopt in the case of documents with a variable layout i.e. 2, 3, 4 or 5 columns on different pages, instead of just uniform three or four throughout the whole document. There could be problems with some complex newspapers and magazines though. Last edited by Marinolino; 05-31-2018 at 10:35 AM. |
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With these kinds of files, Onyx's and Pocketbook's inbuilt readers still outperform Koreader. Otherwise I use Koreader as much as I can and I like it very much. |
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https://sites.google.com/site/pdfscissors/ I've cropped it in pdfscissors using three overlapping rectangles, so that one pdf page contains two columns that can then easily and quickly be read and flipped through in Aura One's 16 cm landscape mode i.e. at agreeable 8 cm width per column. We don't need to draw the cropping rectangle thrice but can use copy/paste instead for the last two rectangles. Those who have Adobe Acrobat or any similar commercial pdf editor can do it there too, by cropping pdf separately three times (left, middle and right sides) and then combining those cropped pdfs thereafter, with pages combined together in a desired other. Attachement: the first 6-column pdf page cropped into three parts using pdfscissors. Last edited by Marinolino; 06-01-2018 at 08:53 AM. |
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06-02-2018, 01:29 PM | #8 |
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Thanks for the instructions, but when you fiddle with the file on the computer so much, don't you coincidentally read it in passing, so that it becomes pointless to transfer it to the ereader and read it again?
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We don't do it page by page manually, but instead we just need to take a look into a dimension or layout of one characteristic single page or maybe couple of neighbouring odd & even pages (in the document with uniform pages), and program shall crop the rest accordingly while we can drink our coffee surfing the net. When using Pdfscissors or Briss, I don't usually see any legible words except maybe bigger titles, because I'd usually use a zoomed-out stacked view instead of separate-page-view, and in stacked view all the pages are piled together illegibly like a pile of translucent superimposed pages would look like, only with visible contours, and I would simply draw the cropping rectangles over the white parts close to the dark contours knowing there is no text to be accidentally cut out this way i.e. all the dark text would be inside those boundaries. Briss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWfPWUf5y-s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkA-ibfnbrQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPAgwikymD8 Pdf-scissors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOzh1ixHLa8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGoQgSyEJAM Last edited by Marinolino; 06-02-2018 at 11:33 PM. |
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