10-28-2012, 10:26 AM | #391 | |
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10-28-2012, 10:51 AM | #392 |
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I had to return my kobo yesterday. I finding that when the WiFi was switched on the battery was draining at a ridiculous rate. Literally 10 % drain for every minute or so the WiFi was on. A full battery drained in Less than 10 minutes. It was also draining quite fast if I played around with the fonts or made a few book shelves.
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10-28-2012, 10:51 AM | #393 | |
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Ok, I used the term "piece of cr@p" (for me, thats still softer than "crap") why did i do that? plain and simple, because kobo advertises the Glo as something it's not. my comment is based on the fact that it can not hold x1000 books as they clearly claim it can . go check it out on their website. I needed that and I am disappointed, it's not like I got the thing for free. would you accept it if you bought a 16 GIG mp3 player that in reality could only hold 2 GIG? I dont think so, but it seems like Ereaders are allowed to underachieve.. Never did I address or attacked someone personal. If anyone considers this as "bashing", I couldn't care less.... Grtz, Ripper |
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10-28-2012, 11:39 AM | #394 | |
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1. first of all, I dont have the luxury to count on a salesman at the store, because they dont sell kobo in my country. I have to buy through a vendor from a supplier abroad. I dont even get the chance to go to a vendor. And why am I wrong to rely on information Kobo advertises on their own website? who's phobic here? 2. there is nothing wrong with my books, no books are css flawed, and no books were mixed with the internal memory. I've been reading books on my laptop since before tablets were available, my collection took YEARS of work. where do you get the right to make insinuations like that? But I did "cram" 2 GIG of books on a 16 GIG SD card, guilty as charged. By the way, feel free to explain to me how "ceremoniously" YOU add your books. I've been softmodding Xboxes and Playstations for years. I root, personalize and overclock anything I can get my hands on. But i didnt realize I needed a special ceremony to copy some files on an Ereader. please enlighten me! 3. "Dude", its not because your device doesnt have that problem, that it doesnt exist. I am not the only one with a battery draining KOBO on this forum. And dont call me "dude" when you are talking trash about me. 4. Yes, the zoom in the pdf did not work, same as the zoom for images in epub books. Your zoom DID work. congratulations, thanks for sharing that with the group! By the way, I got another answer, from kobo themselves this time. They acknowledge my problems and I could send it back free of charge. (A bit too late because Kobo Holland (Libris) already told me I could do the same thing, but good to have another confirmation that i'm right). So eat that one too. 5. Your little Jerry-Springer-moral-du-jour of what caused my problems....what a load of BS... I did not mistreat or misuse anything. especially because I knew pretty fast that I was gonna send it back. I treated it like my first girlfriend, and I did none of the things you said. Too bad, it also treated ME like my first girlfriend. I dont care what worked for you or what didnt work for you. It's MY device I am talking about. The supplier in holland only accepts returns if the buyer pays for the shipping costs, unless it's a faulty device. so besides my problem with the Organization of the library, it WAS faulty too. But YOUR zoom works, glad to hear that! Get a life, "dude" Last edited by Bookripper; 10-28-2012 at 11:43 AM. |
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10-28-2012, 11:45 AM | #395 |
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@Bookripper,
I imagine I'm not alone in thinking that if you'd spent a fraction of the time & effort you put into ranting here and at some hapless vendor, instead of into a bit of research and creating a short post on the MobileRead 'Which one should I buy?' sub-forum stating your requirements simply and politely you would have received a better response. If you'd said these 3 items were must-haves:
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Edit: or maybe you're in the UK?/Hadn't occurred to me that you could be from outside North America... Last edited by Cdesja5; 10-28-2012 at 12:12 PM. |
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This thread is about the Kobo, I don't know you personally I don't care about you so why the hell would this be personal. cut off the paranoia man !
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Ok last time: Because I pre-ordered it a month ago and I thought it was clear enough on the kobo website. I waited until the 6th generation of Ereaders to buy one. who knew they would still have such a retarded system (yes, retarded, I stand by that). Who here knew anything about the Kobo glo a month ago, besides the specs Kobo advertised? And do you think they would have said "no", if I asked if it was possible to add thousands of books? Kobo advertises it like that!! Also, the pdf seems to work fine on most kobos, so thats exactly what they would have answered me on that one. I can only buy Sony ereaders at pretty high prices in my country, so on this one, I took a leap of faith.... sometimes you do that, and are not satisfied... It's called "LIFE". And for just living it, I should not get insults over me from that "dude"-guy. Kobo gone, Bookeen soon... So I will unsubscribe from this topic, if anyone wants to continue the discussion, STOP quoting me in this topic, and PM me. grtz, Ripper |
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Anyways back to topic.
Another thing I like about the Glo over my old 650 is the dictionary display window. Whenever I had to look up a word in the middle of a reading if there was too much info, I had to "leave" my reading to get to the bottom of it, often the info was not even what I was looking for. With the Glo, the window displays nicely the definitions and when there's extra info, you just sort of turn page within the dictionary window so you are not disconnected from your reading. |
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10-28-2012, 01:03 PM | #402 |
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Maybe a rooted T1 or T2 would work better for Bookripper as they are Android based you might be able to use your folder system by installing another reader apt. Stock T1 or T2 wouldn't handle you folder system any better than a Kobo.
Happy hunting for a reader that works best for you. Let us know if you find e-ink reader that works with your file system. |
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I just bought a Glo from WHSmiths. This is my first e-reader. I got it because I've run out of space for paper books, and didn't much enjoy longform reading on my Android tablet.
The Kobo is pleasantly small, light and easy to hold. I thought I wouldn't like the quilted back but it's fine. It does seem to attract fingerprints and I really will want a cover - does anyone know when the Sleepcover will be available in the UK? Set up was easy enough by attaching the reader to my PC with the USB cable and downloading and running the Kobo desktop software. It downloaded new firmware and the whole process took maybe ten minutes. Using ADE I sideloaded some ePubs I'd bought from Google Play. These didn't show up at first - I reattached the reader to my PC and reran ADE and Kobo desktop, and it was fine. Though I have a problem with the sideloaded ePubs: I can't seem to change the font or line spacing for some. Is this solvable without stripping DRM? The light: it's white enough for me. Maybe not quite as white as the Kindle Paperwhite I played with in Waterstones, but it's fine. And it's really quite even -there's the slightest of brightness at the side and top edges and a slight shadow at the bottom but it's hardly anything. Fonts changes in one Kobo ePub book don't necessarily seem to carry across to others. When you wake the reader from sleep, it switches the light back on but forgets to put the black bar at the bottom which it uses to hide the slight shadow at the bottom. I'd find it useful if the sliders e.g. for the light or font sizes showed a numerical level. @shanghaichica: sorry to hear about your WiFi and battery problems, mine seems fine. I see you got the Paperwhite - curious to know how you think they compare? Anyway, time to do some reading. |
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It would be nice to have this when playing around trying to get the exact right settings (make it easier to go back to a previous setting). |
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