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Re: Kobo announces color e-readers

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Post by nocoder »

dustincoates wrote: post #25

I have very little to add about the color aspect, but I can say that I love my Kobo. I've had three Kindles before buying the Kobo, which I got because it has a "better" integration with my local library (better in quotes, because I still have to do with the Adobe DRM, which is so bad on Linux that I borrow my wife's computer just to transfer). The Pocket integration is fantastic, as are the physical page turn button…

I am on a 10 year old Kindle and looking to replace it but most of my ebooks are from Amazon. Would it be seamless to transfer my books to Kobo via Calibre or some other software or it will be pain in the butt?

Re: Kobo announces color e-readers

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Post by mark_l_watson »

This looks good, but I probably won’t get it. Just today I bought on Kobo the works of Michel de Montaigne, a natural philosopher nestled between the Stoics and later philosophers like Ralph Waldo Emerson and German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

This book I just bought has some color illustrations so I also opened the book on my iPad using the Kobo app, and while I enjoyed seeing the color illustrations, not a big deal.

All that said, I like being a Kobo customer, and I really like that my local physical bookstore gets a little money each time I make a Kobo purchase.

Re: Kobo announces color e-readers

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Post by dustincoates »

kbrackbill wrote: post #175
dustincoates wrote: post #25

I have very little to add about the color aspect, but I can say that I love my Kobo. I've had three Kindles before buying the Kobo, which I got because it has a "better" integration with my local library (better in quotes, because I still have to do with the Adobe DRM, which is so bad on Linux that I borrow my wife's computer just to transfer). The Pocket integration is fantastic, as are the physical page turn button…

re: the library integration, I'm confused about how you or your wife's computer is even involved in the process. For my kindle I borrow books on libby and amazon magically beams them over. Does your library not use libby? Are you taking extra steps to avoid amazon?

I'm outside the US, so no Libby or Overdrive.

Re: Kobo announces color e-readers

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Post by seam_carver »

bityard wrote: post #166
paradox460 wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Onyx Boox makes a reader that's roughly the size and dimensions of a modern cell phone https://onyxboox.com/boox_palma

Oh, that's interesting. Pretty much exactly what I'm after! It has better specs than my phone. Says it runs Android, so I assume it's reasonably "open".

An alternative to the Palma is the Hisense A9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvO9ScTdwz8

Re: Kobo announces color e-readers

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Post by seam_carver »

unsupp0rted wrote: post #139

What's stopping Kobo (or somebody else) from making a calm color e-ink smartphone? Calm as in no animations, b&w + a couple bright accent colors, say like red for icon badges. People seem to like the b&w e-ink smartphones, but a color one would be a homerun.

Well, it's one thing to make an ereader. It's an entirely other thing to make a smartphone. It's not trivial, that's why Onyx released a phone-sized reader instead of a phone.

Hisense made color e-ink smartphones but they didn't make a color model of their latest Hisense A9.

Re: Kobo announces color e-readers

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Post by magarnicle »

ashton314 wrote: post #18

I've had a kindle for years now. A while back I jailbroke it and stuck KOReader which has been so awesome. (Custom fonts? Yes please! Gestures for going to the TOC or bookmarks or back in history? Absolutely!) Problem: it was a lot of work getting my kindle to this state. I'm terrified to turn on WiFi for fear Amazon will send an OTA update and nuke KOReader from orbit. So, when this kindle dies, I am thinking I'd li…

The original Kindle Touch had gestures. It was also faster for dictionary lookups than my current Paperwhite, which is over a decade newer...

Re: Kobo announces color e-readers

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Post by AstralJaeger »

WolfeReader wrote: post #22
teroshan wrote: post #4

Know that while useful in some scenarios, I'd avoid buying a color e-ink display if you're still going to primarily be using it for B&W colors. To quote the eBook Reader Blog [1]: > The main drawback with color E Ink screens is they look darker than regular B&W screens because of a color filter layer that is applied over the top of the screen, which makes the contrast appear lower. Kaleido color screens are really ju…

I've used a Pocketbook Color for over a year now. And yes, it is a somewhat darker screen, but that mainly just means I turn on the frontlight in some cases where I wouldn't have needed to with other e-readers. I've otherwise been having a good time with it - comics and PDFs benefit greatly from the color screen, and regular text is fine too.

Fully agree here, I'm in the PocketBook Color squad since 2020 and got it at full price and absoltuley love the thing. Appart from the fact they don't sell official covers for it anymore since i seem to disassemble those regularly.

Re: Kobo announces color e-readers

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Post by AstralJaeger »

dustincoates wrote: post #25

I have very little to add about the color aspect, but I can say that I love my Kobo. I've had three Kindles before buying the Kobo, which I got because it has a "better" integration with my local library (better in quotes, because I still have to do with the Adobe DRM, which is so bad on Linux that I borrow my wife's computer just to transfer). The Pocket integration is fantastic, as are the physical page turn button…

> as are the physical page turn buttons. I always thought they were unnecessary, but I really do prefer them now.

I felt that one, the reason I love those buttons is, because that way I can keep my display clean as I don't have to touch it.

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