Kobo’s great color e-readers are held back by lock-in
Kobo’s great color e-readers are held back by lock-in
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Kobo’s great color e-readers are held back by lock-in
I want to read books, not just buy them.
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Ended up getting a Kobo Elipsa 2E myself a while back, and it's been a real pleasure to use. There's no stupid device-level DRM on it to try and prevent me from actually using it for my reading, and the onboard storage is just a simple microSD so it's really easy to upgrade if I want to fit even more books.
KOReader has been a real treat to run on it, letting me sync books from my home NAS over WebDav, push books directly to it over scp, I've even been poking at a plugin to have it automatically sync books off of a local reading tracker I've written.
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That and the form factor are the only reasons I went with the Boox Palma instead.
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Boox are awesome! Good default reader app, nice refresh rate and e-ink options, trash but not intrusive Android build and ability to use KoReader.
I used to have a Note Air, sold it and moved to Poke 3, finished countless books and never looked back since. I can’t understand what Kindle or Kobo offers other than a locked environment.
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I agree. The hardware and overdrive integration are sweet. But borrowing books is difficult, and borrowing books usually involves a multi-week wait.
I generally do a blend of physical and ebooks now.
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I just wish there were options like the Kindle Voyage. Slim, book-shaped, with physical page turn buttons on both sides. I absolutely love mine, but I wish it were waterproof and had a night light mode for the backlight.
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Happy cake day. :)
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Oh hey, thanks! That's cool!
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I have to say, the amazon affiliate link is extremely ironic.
I am very happy with my black-and-white libra, it hasn't really tried to sell me anything aside from a widget that went away permenantly when i Xed out of it, and the buttons to the store which i got rid of via modding.
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most readers generally are held back by lock-in. Book drm is even more frustrating to me than video drm atm.