![]() ![]() Kobo doesn’t offer any cellular connections like Kindles used to, but with the current WiFi availability (even as hotspot), I don’t see this as a downside. The reader is Wi-Fi enabled and you can connect it to internet to access Kobo’s store or other sources of data. The device has a micro-USB cable to be used for charging it and also for data transfer. Good grip and recessed on/off button to protect from accidental changes To open the book you need to press an recessed button that leaves little room for mistakes, unlike the Paperwhite one which allowed me in various occasions to open the Kindle and change something on his settings when it was stored in my backpack. Calibre offers much more than that, but serves primarily as a great book management software. Using Calibre, a free and versatile desktop software available for a lot of platforms, you can bridge the worlds converting the formats from epub to mobi and vice versa. But the biggest difference comes from the supported formats of files – simply said, Kobo is more open and supports epub (epub3 included), mobi whereas Kindle supports mobi and the proprietary format azw. Hardware wise, I consider Kobo to be slightly superior in the same price range to the Kindle counterpart, usually offering a sturdy and elegant solution. The fact that Kobo (an anagram of book) entered this business forced the prices down for Amazon Kindle and creates a healthy competition and alternative for the “behemoth” Amazon. ![]() Kobo started their journey in 2010 releasing a number of devices since then (the list is available here). Kobo Aura One – one of the larger devices from Kobo (7.8′ screen) – very useful when reading PDFs for example Hardware wise, I still consider them to be superior to the more famous (and more expensive) Kindles. Kobo stayed with me for a longer period than all the others (Sony or Kindle), because their devices proved to be reliable, open for content and easy to use. I only started to use the Kindle with their 10th generation of devices (the history is available here) and the 4th generation of Paperwhite. I have to admit that, when I started using eBook readers, I started with Sony PRS 600 which I loved for its versatility and PDF reflow support (that’s when you don’t have to zoom in to see the content of an PDF, but just increase the font size until you see the text fine) and switched to Kobo when Sony decided that they won’t continue to activated in this field (by that moment I ws using the PRS-650). And this article tries to answer this question(s): “Are there alternatives for Kindle? Are they any good? Is Kobo good enough to compete with Kindle?” When I mentioned eReaders, most of the people thought of Kindle…when they saw Kobo some of them asked “what’s that. Addressing this “I’d like to read a lot of books but I don’t know exactly what books/genre” is difficult if you love only printed books, making your luggage heavy or creating a bit of frustration that you didn’t bring with you “that” book you’d like “now” to read.Ī solution for those who tolerate to read books in different format other than printed is having an eReader which is (in my mind) a very good compromise – offering easy on eyes reading, lightness and the full portable library you may shuffle through you vacation days. That is fine for getting back to reading but in the process the annotations are lost for ever.One of my recent posts was about the eReaders options we have, especially when in vacation you travel and, if you’re like me, you’d like to read different books depending on your mood. The help desk recommends deleting the ebook and reloading. I am currently having a major problem in that most of by ebooks have got corrupted and the Kobo will no longer open them. Also there is no facility for extracting those notes into a more useful medium such as a word processor. However, having made many such annotations in all the ebooks I have read, I find the mechanics of accessing those notes very laborious on the Kobo. Its most useful feature, so I thought, was the ability to highlight text and write notes. It was recognised by my PC running Ubuntu 8.04 when I connected via USB and I was able to copy all files from the Kobo onto my PC. ![]() It doesnt do sound, but it can view pdfs and Html (in fact it as a web browser as a non-supported extra). Its good for reading, looking up definitions and searching for word occurrences - all things I expect from an ereader. ![]()
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