09-20-2018, 11:47 AM | #1 |
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Have Oasis, but not 100% happy
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I bought a Kindle Oasis and though I like the reading experience, many of my books are epub or pdf and I am finding that the majority of the 'features' like goodreads, syncing across devices, and others are limited to amazon purchased items. Spoiler:
I know I can rework a bunch of things to maybe get these to work (haven't had much luck so far), but I am wondering if there is a better solution in a Kobo or other. It certainly seems like the quality of screen, lighting and speed of the Kobos are on par if not better than the kindles. I am just not very familiar with the kobo features. Have to have:
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Thanks so much for any help. I am coming up on my kindle return date! Last edited by jamison_io; 09-20-2018 at 12:18 PM. |
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I'd also note that, since you say that you manage your ebook library with Calibre, if you convert your ePub books to Kindle format (which, as you know, you can tell Calibre to do automatically) and then send them to your Amazon cloud library, they will then sync between devices just like books bought from Amazon.
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Reading your requirements, there isn't a device that will do what you want. In fact, the Kindle is the closest. Going through them...
There is some support for all devices. But, for some it is fairly basic. In my admittedly biased opinion, Kobo's are best supported. This is because driver support collections, series information and other tricks. Plus choice of drivers and my Kobo Utilities plugin to add a lot of other function. Collection/shelf support is a popular request and is limited for other devices. The old Sony's had support, tolino uses a directory level as a collection. For Kindles, I believe you need either older firmware or to be able to jailbreak it. Quote:
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Having written that and looking back at your list, you have basically listed the functions of a Kindle The device you have is the one that matches the best with what you want. |
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I do that, then sideload the azw3 file via calibre, and still am having troubles. Thoughts? |
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