Re: Kobo Mini e-reader

--- In [email protected], "Eric Green" <eric@...> wrote:
> I looked at Kobo before and the big problem is getting eBooks for it. An eBook reader is no good without eBooks. Your best bet is either the Nook or Kindle ecosystem, because both have a lot of eBooks available for them. At 6 to 7.5 ounces they're still lighter than carrying seven or eight paperback books with you (you can easily read seven or eight books before needing to charge them), but you can *get* books for them -- a lot of books, at reasonable prices. Kobo is pretty much stuck with accessing smaller eBook stores that have higher prices and less selection than Amazon and B&N.


Though I know this issue has been settled and the OP is going with a Kindle, I just wanted to speak up as the owner of a Kobo: You are only limited in eBooks if you refuse to look outside of the native ecosystem that comes with your eReader. A Kobo will read Kobo books (the Kobo store is amazingly popular in Canada so they have a TON of current titles in English) that can be downloaded by the native browser, but it can ALSO read: ePub and PDF. (Kindle cannot read ePub.) There is also the less-legal avenues that involve using programs to strip the DRM from Kindle books and converting them to ePub format. Not that I'd recommend such a thing, but in the interest of full accounting I thought we should include it.

I mainly get my books from either my library's Overdrive ebook lending thingie - Kobo plays nicely with this - or through the online eBookstore SmashWords and download in the ePub format.

There is a forum called MobileReads that will give you more public domain books and more information than your brain could possibly hold.

For what it is worth, I'm incredibly pleased and satisfied with my Kobo.

-J-