Kobo or Kindle

Which one and why.

Edited by deleted (Tue 09-Oct-12 20:49:07)

Kobo. I got WH Smith gift tokens.

Kobo, because there many more sites you can get the books and not stuck with one company.

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

... not stuck with one company.

Not true- the Mobi format is available from many sites, mostly free.

Amazon gives a list of most of them, including its own library of free books.

After Amazon's own, Project Gutenburg is probably the best one, imho.

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In reply to a post by zyborg47:

... not stuck with one company.

Not true- the Mobi format is available from many sites, mostly free.

Amazon gives a list of most of them, including its own library of free books.

After Amazon's own, Project Gutenburg is probably the best one, imho.

You can also convert the format from and to the Mobi format using the free application "Calibre" available from:
http://calibre-ebook.com/about

Yes, I know about Calibre... I wouldn't be without it

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In reply to a post by zyborg47:

... not stuck with one company.

Not true- the Mobi format is available from many sites, mostly free.

Amazon gives a list of most of them, including its own library of free books.

After Amazon's own, Project Gutenburg is probably the best one, imho.

Still controlled by amazon, i bet any book that is published using the Mobi format have to go through amazon first.

do Amazon do with their books what they are doing with their MP3 downloads now and keep them on their cloud because they think we are too thick to make a back up?

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

i bet any book that is published using the Mobi format have to go through amazon first.

You lose! Those other sites have nothing to do with Amazon & MOBI is an eBook format developed by Mobipocket; .AZW is Amazon's format.

Yes, Amazon do auto store the books you buy from them, only, on their sites.

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

do Amazon do with their books what they are doing with their MP3 downloads now and keep them on their cloud

Yes, they do.

because they think we are too thick to make a back up?

Again (more or less) yes, because most people don't keep backups.


edit- it also makes it much easier to transfer your purchases to a new Kindle if the old one dies for any reason (or the owner simply updates to a newer one). A backup won't help in those circumstances as the files are registered to a specific machine.

Edited by billford (Thu 11-Oct-12 23:50:01)

In reply to a post by billford:

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

do Amazon do with their books what they are doing with their MP3 downloads now and keep them on their cloud

Yes, they do.

because they think we are too thick to make a back up?

Again (more or less) yes, because most people don't keep backups.


edit- it also makes it much easier to transfer your purchases to a new Kindle if the old one dies for any reason (or the owner simply updates to a newer one). A backup won't help in those circumstances as the files are registered to a specific machine.

i always make back ups, my books are stored on Sd card and my music is stored on 3 different devices.

TBH, i think Kobo does things the same way, in that you can download to another device, but I don't think they got a cloud like amazon do.

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In reply to a post by zyborg47:

i bet any book that is published using the Mobi format have to go through amazon first.

You lose! Those other sites have nothing to do with Amazon & MOBI is an eBook format developed by Mobipocket; .AZW is Amazon's format.

You are correct, I was just testing i clean forgot that AZW is amazons own format.
Still one big company that got too much control, can anyone else produce a e-book that will take AZW?

Yes, Amazon do auto store the books you buy from them, only, on their sites.

I will stick with the Kobo, just a shame the company was taken over by a Indian company, but i still think the Kobo is a better.

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can anyone else produce a e-book that will take AZW?

Yes, ManyBooks supply eBooks in AZW format while FeedBooks supply MOBI. I get most of my free eBooks from those.

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In reply to a post by zyborg47:

can anyone else produce a e-book that will take AZW?

Yes, ManyBooks supply eBooks in AZW format while FeedBooks supply MOBI. I get most of my free eBooks from those.

Fair enough.

i will stick with my Kobo.