I have a Boox tablet myself because I love notetaking in nonfiction books and hand writing my notes in work meetings and journals. Easy to hook up to local libraries to borrow books on the fly, easy to copy DRM-free ebooks from online stores. Kobos are a much friendlier ecosystem, and are what I recommend to all family members who don't want their device shackled by Amazon. I like copying media to my ereader using cables, because sometimes I don't have a solid internet connection or it just feels wasteful to send a bunch of big files over email (if I'm on a tethered or metered internet connection, just sending a couple dozen books is easily in the hundreds of megabytes up and down). The AZW3 proprietary format is not something I want to struggle with in my day-to-day - if anything goes wrong, it's a rabbit hole of reverse engineering. Notably they don't display book covers for converted epubs in your library - clearly hamstringing the conversion so folks aren't too tempted to rely on books from external sources. There's something very pleasing about keeping an old ebook reader going though so it might be fun just to keep using your DXs until they absolutely die and then see what's on the market at the time. I'd guess that the Elipsa would be a good replacement for a Kindle DX but that's caviated by how you personally want to use it. The handwriting to text or drawing to flowchart conversion is fun to play with but it's not something I need, I'm strictly using it as a reading device. I actually wish I could have bought the Elipsa without the bundled case or pen as I don't use either. I considered a Remarkable 2 but I'm not really one for hand written notes and I wanted a frontlight, which the Elipsa has but the RM2 doesn't. Installing KOreader or Plato was as simple as dragging a file onto a USB drive and give you every ereader feature you could want including margin stripping PDFs. That's only a very minor issues though, I can still read things fine with the default margins. You can zoom in but you need to zoom out again to turn the page. The only irk I've had with Kobo is that the default PDF reader doesn't let you set a zoom level to reduce margins as you read. I couldn't search for "act" without getting results for "actor" as well. My old Kindle's search was too greedy which made it pretty much useless as I couldn't narrow results. The Kobo search features are much better. The Elipsa also has much crisper text but again I thought my anchient Kindle was mostly good enough. ![]() It's much faster than my old Kindle but I was never really that bother about the old Kindle's page turn speed. In general I think DX or Elipsa sized screens are more useful for text books even in epub format. The Kobo Elipsa is the first ebook reader I've used where I can read PDFs without zooming, which is a game changer for me. Unfortunately I've never actually seen a Kindle DX in the wild and they're rare as rocking horse poo on ebay here in the UK. I can't say for sure how they compare but the DX was what I was originally looking for. Amazon offers nothing I want that Kobo doesn't have.ĭifferent people have different usecases but I don't think I'll go back to a Kindle now I've switched. ![]() Installing Koreader, Plato or anything else is simple even if it's not required for everyday use. They're also priced similarly if you match specs and available for same day delivery from Argos in the UK.įinally, I know I could hack my last Kindle but Kobo make that really easy out of the box. The other stuff you mentioned, like Kindle having a large purchasable library, is also true for Kobo right from the homescreen. In theory I could also use the pen and take written notes on my Elipsa too but it's not a feature I was looking for. (Dropbox does support email though if you do want that). Overdrive support so I can borrow books from my local library for free.įree Dropbox syncing without having to email everything when I buy a book from someone that isn't Amazon e.g PragProg, Packt, etc. There's also Pocket support for reading offline web articles. IMHO that makes the Kindle only really useful for fiction. Like a screen big enough to comfortably read PDFs. ![]() Kobo had distinct features I wanted that no Kindle offered at the time I last purchased.
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