Interesting that you don’t recommend Kobo Color. I was thinking of gifting my mother a kobo but I might just go for a BW version.
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sunshine@lemmy.ml 1 week agoI just got a Kobo color (don’t recommend the color feature; no book is ever going to use it except the red-letter Bible and House of Leaves) and gifted the old Kindle to a friend. I e-reader is an awesome gift actually because for a lot of people it’s something they would never evenly in years take a chance on, but that they would love it if they tried.
amos@mander.xyz 6 days ago
sunshine@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
To be quite honest I never allowed my Kindle or my Kobo to go online and the experience is not that different. The build quality on the Kindle is a bit better superior and I might well go back. Calibre is the real hero of the story IMO.
amos@mander.xyz 5 days ago
Look to whom you are giving the money. That is a very important part of the whole story.
phx@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
The color might make more sense if you’re into manga or graphical novels as opposed to just ebooks
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 6 days ago
It’s semi-decent for comics if you massage them a bit
sunshine@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
That’s interesting. What kind of massage are you talking about here?
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Answered in the sibling, but this basically: github.com/ciromattia/kcc
sunshine@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
Thank you!
Rolder@reddthat.com 6 days ago
Massage them…?
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 6 days ago
There’s a script, which I can’t remember now, that can optimise the pages by removing any margins etc so that there is no useless wasted space and every bit of display is used for content.