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View Poll Results: Why do you prefer Kobo ereaders to Amazon ereaders? | |||
Better store | 7 | 4.19% | |
Better hardware | 41 | 24.55% | |
More innovative products | 34 | 20.36% | |
More open and customizable | 120 | 71.86% | |
Better software | 72 | 43.11% | |
Better support | 9 | 5.39% | |
Better price | 20 | 11.98% | |
Library access | 53 | 31.74% | |
More accessible in my country | 19 | 11.38% | |
I disagree with the direction Amazon's is taking with ereaders | 51 | 30.54% | |
I disagree with Amazon's policy directions in general | 74 | 44.31% | |
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 167. You may not vote on this poll |
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11-18-2021, 03:58 AM | #121 | |
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11-18-2021, 05:17 AM | #122 |
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There are other words I'd throw into the conversation, like cynical.
There truly are some businesses that begin with high moral aspirations. I'm not arguing Rakuten / Kobo fit this description, I don't know enough about their beginnings, but some do try. Whether they manage to retain those in the long term is always a difficulty, circumstances change. That I favour Kobo is not a judgement on their values but on mine. I value their existence as competition in a market with not enough of it, so I will continue to support them (within reason). |
11-18-2021, 05:58 AM | #123 |
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But the fact that you like their devices is still the number one reason you favor Kobo, right? Surely you're not sticking with devices that don't quite live up to your expectations in the name of good competition?
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11-18-2021, 11:31 AM | #124 | |
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11-18-2021, 11:35 AM | #125 | |
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11-18-2021, 12:21 PM | #126 |
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I prefer "Kobo". I put it in quotation marks because, for me, it's never been the brand of reader but the number of compatible formats available on the device. The first ereaders in my household were the original Nooks and we have evolved from there to the current Formas.
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11-18-2021, 06:01 PM | #127 | |
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I find sideloading to Kobo somewhat restrictive. Yes, I get my book covers regardless of whether I sideload epub or kepub. BUT, sideloading to Kobo still involves annoying choices that are not entirely dissimilar to Kindle's annoying choices. ePub, I get ligatures. KePub I don't, but I can zoom images. And there are other differences. In general, I prefer ePub, but not for books with maps or other images where I may need to zoom! The irritating bit is that zooming images was possible in my Sony readers, so it certainly should have been able to be preserved for vanilla ePub in Kobo devices, grrrrrrr. So I guess you can count me in on the Kobo/Amazon NEITHER is more "moral" side. |
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But the post you quoted included the reservation "within reason" for a reason. I would not continue to support a company that I didn't think worthy of support. I find Kobo worthy on several counts, not just their device. In an earlier post I said: Quote:
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11-18-2021, 06:23 PM | #129 | |
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11-18-2021, 06:46 PM | #130 |
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That debases the word immoral. Seriously. Save it for something that matters.
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11-18-2021, 11:03 PM | #131 | |
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I tried to find it in the waybackmachine, but, I couldn't see an example. But, https://web.archive.org/web/20150428...ucts/kobo-aura has "OPEN UP" under the Kobo logo. That was part of what I was thinking of. I think this might be towards the end, so it might have been dropped when Rakuten purchased Kobo. |
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11-19-2021, 10:05 AM | #132 | |
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It was part of why I bought a Nook over a Kindle. Though, in the end I only wound up buying from B&N. So clever marketing on their part. |
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01-07-2022, 03:39 AM | #133 |
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I have the oasis kindle and found that the battery life is shocking compare to my old kindles which I passed to family. I’m looking at the kobo ones but in the Uk don’t know anywhere or anyone with one that I can see and get a idea of how tactile it is.
Need something that accepts multiple formats as I get books from various sources. Don’t like always having to get my computer out to change the format so it’s compatible with my kindle. Have an iPad Pro but it’s too heavy for bedtime reading. Find my oasis a struggle at times as I get a lot of wrist, hand ache. My eyesight isn’t the best and don’t want to have to wear my reading specs in bed. Decisions. Had kindle from the first one before that a Sony one. Cost is a factor and it needs to have some kind of light and be clear. Any thoughts please. |
01-07-2022, 03:42 AM | #134 | |
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Check out the Kobo Libra 2 - by all accounts it's the pick of the bunch at the moment, and is competitively priced. |
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01-07-2022, 05:38 AM | #135 |
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I gave my Kobo to my gf and got myself Kindle Paperwhite. It just feel much more premium just like iPad vs Android pad. Build quality, responsiveness, functionality.
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