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We have a 3rd-generation Kindle, which I mostly use to read the Hugo shortlist each year; I find myself thinking it might be useful for novellas and other odds and ends I'd like to read without necessarily wanting to own a dead-tree copy of.
A recent half-price offer on a Kindle Paperwhite caused me to wonder if having an e-reader each might not be such a terrible idea, which then made me think whether the Paperwhite was the right e-reader or if I should consider alternatives.30 seconds googlingDetailed research led me instead to the Kobo range, which seem to offer larger screens & storage (and more waterproofing) for less money.
Any opinions? I like the real buttons on the existing Kindle, and the fact I can just mount it as USB mass storage and put ebooks on it thus. I don't care about the lack of light (and like the fact it doesn't give off light, IYSWIM). I dislike that page-turning is a bit slow, that it's not running Free Software, and the tie-in to Amazon (though the fact I can feed it books over USB ameliorates that).
A recent half-price offer on a Kindle Paperwhite caused me to wonder if having an e-reader each might not be such a terrible idea, which then made me think whether the Paperwhite was the right e-reader or if I should consider alternatives.
Any opinions? I like the real buttons on the existing Kindle, and the fact I can just mount it as USB mass storage and put ebooks on it thus. I don't care about the lack of light (and like the fact it doesn't give off light, IYSWIM). I dislike that page-turning is a bit slow, that it's not running Free Software, and the tie-in to Amazon (though the fact I can feed it books over USB ameliorates that).
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The most annoying thing so far is that when I buy a book from Amazon on it, it comes in a new format that I can't trivially de-DRM with Calibre for backup purposes.
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The on button on my original Glo broke after a couple of years of using it most days, (I have a 30 minute bus ride to and from work) but on the Glo HD I replaced it with the design is different and I don't see it breaking in the same way.
I don't use the light regularly, but it can be very useful at a low level to increase the contrast when you're in that, shall I put the room light on or not, twilight stage.
I mostly use it for reading downloaded fanfic, through Calibre and the FanFicFare plugin, but do buy some books directly from the Kobo store, and there's another plugin for Calibre that makes removing any DRM very easy - I believe more epubs are available DRM free in the first place, but I've not studied it in any detail.
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I don't miss the buttons, and find the touch screen really easy to use. I like that I don't have to have a light to read it. I had the old Kindle (not the paperwhite) and it was easy to use, but going to the Kindle Fire was a pleasant change. I used it to read on a long bus trip and on airplanes, and it's really nice.
I've never used the Kobo, so I can't comment on it.
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I did install their software on the Windows PC I had when I first bought the reader, and it wasn't terrible, but I've not bothered reinstalling on my replacement PC; I use an old (2GB) micro-SD card as extra memory, and just put new books on that as I buy them.