Interested in ereaders

Christopher Browne cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Mon Sep 23 17:00:12 UTC 2013


On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 12:51 PM, James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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.

I have never installed a book to my Kobo using the vendor-provided
software; I have been quite happy with Calibre as software to manage
the "library" of books on the device.

<http://calibre-ebook.com/>
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