Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of data

Re:Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of data by AdmiralAsshat on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @09:39AM (#24271186)

Kobo's have comparable (even superior, IMO) hardware to the Kindle line. The thing that everyone who migrates from Kindle to Kobo seems to get hung up on is that it does not have an option to wirelessly sync books that have been sideloaded across devices. This is because Kobo does not give everyone a private cloud like Amazon does (I imagine it would be prohibitively expensive to do so for anyone but Amazon).

It's not a big deal for me, but apparently it's a dealbreaker for some Kindle refugees that they can't start reading a sideloaded book on their phone and pick up where they left off when they open their Kobo.

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Re:Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of data by fouc on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @09:43AM (#24271233)

I have a $350 Kobo Forma and the UI is so slow compared to my $200 Kindle. It takes a long time to startup and it has horrible & slow touch detection which makes it really hard to highlight quotes properly.

Maybe other Kobo variants do better however.

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Re:Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of data by sweatpants on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @09:53AM (#24271347)

I don't see why that should be expensive/difficult. Ebooks are mostly small files. It would be hard to ramp up a gigabyte unless you end up with image laden items such as pdfs.

Synching can be an issue. I had a one of the early kindles, and it was fine until I hit a few hundred items. It would re-index and be completely unresponsive for 10minutes at a go. That could have been done cloud side. In the end I decided I needed to purge loads of documents/titles to get it useful again. But accidentally sat on it. So game over. Moved to a simple Nook and SDCard loads.

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