Interested in ereaders

[James Knott]

Neil Watson wrote:
> I bought a Kobo last year. I do not like it.
>
> 1. It is under powered and buggy. I bought Template Toolkit from
> O'Reilly and the Kobo would slow to a crawl when reading it.
> 2. Getting old stories from Project Gutenberg is nice.
> 3. The screen is too small for text books, but OK for novels.
> 4. The process of buying an ebook or borrowing from the library is so
> invasive that I stopped doing this. Borrowing an Ebook requires software
> from Adobe. So, the library, Adobe, and the publisher all know my
> reading habits. I hate this.

That's why I stopped using my Kobo, in favour of my tablet.  With the
tablet, you can download books direct to it, including library books,
rather than to a computer and then copying from the computer to the
reader.  There is Adobe software for tables available.

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