The Kobo Forma, however, does support ePub, and side-loading them is a breeze: connect it to your computer (we used a Mac) using the supplied cable and it will appear like a USB drive. Kindles do not currently support the ePub format, so you’ve got to convert them first.
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Project Gutenberg of free ePub copies of out-of-copyright classics, but Kindles – for obvious reasons – do not make it easy for you to side-load such titles on to your device. One of the appeals of eReaders for fuddy-duddies like this reviewer (bah, it’s not the same as an actual book, etc) is the wide availability on sites such as Very few of us will receive astute recommendations when we first visit the Kobo store.Ī quick word on the subject of free books. This means data, and data means user-targeted recommendations. Of course Amazon benefits from its ubiquity and sheer size, since a lot of potential users will have bought something from it before. Books – a market with absurd oversupply and deeply subjective tastes – cry out for human or personal-data-driven guidance. Inoffensive stuff, and probably just bad (or good) luck, but also a hint that Kobo does not curate the front pages of its categories and leaves them to sales algorithm or simple recentness. We again checked Short Stories, and funnily enough happened across another suggestive offering at the bottom of the front page, this time calledĮat Me For Lunch (“ the steamy story of an attractive young nurse who is starved for sex…”). The store is more attractive than before and we found it easier to find decent stuff, although it’s still less helpful than the Kindle store.
Things seem to have improved, at least a little, but the issues haven’t been entirely solved. Little thought had gone into the store’s user experience and, disconcertingly, a couple of cheaply made soft-porn titles appeared on the front page of the Short Stories section. Kobo store simply wasn’t as well curated asĪmazon’s Kindle store: a little searching suggested it had as many or almost as many books on offer, and big titles launched there at roughly the same time, but it was much harder to browse. Kobo fell down in our review last year when we pronounced the dreaded word ‘content’. Of course, if you’re reading something embarrassing you may not share our view. It’s nice to have a small extra link with the book, and it makes you feel more immersed. On multiple occasions eBook-using friends have sheepishly admitted to us that they don’t actually know what they are currently reading because they never get to see the cover, as they would with a physical book. Some may find the latter limitation annoying, but we love the default setting. But we suspect that at least some users will find the hair-trigger auto-rotation annoying, and would appreciate a third setting for total lock in a single orientation.īy default, the Kobo uses the cover of your current book as the screensaver – indeed there aren’t any alternatives, so if you disable this option you just get a blank screen with ‘Sleeping’ or ‘Power off’ at the bottom.
We habitually swap hands, and after prolonged use would probably choose to keep things this way even if another option was presented. Now, we can see why the makers wanted to allow users to switch from left- to righthand use very easily, even if landscape mode was not wanted.
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But locked mode, while preventing portrait mode from switching 90 degrees to landscape, still allows the device to rotate the full 180 degrees, and it’s so sensitive that it often flips upside-down when you put the device down on the table. It can be used in either portrait or landscape orientation (the latter designed to have the grip at the bottom), and there’s an option to ‘lock’ this.
We mentioned earlier that rotating the device automatically rotates the screen, but we have a slight reservation on that count. There’s a good range of text customisation options: 10 fonts, and the ability to fine-tune text size, margin size and line spacing to an enormously granular degree. Tap the central third of the screen to bring up menu options, including brightness, text size, and chapter quick jumps. Select something to read from the My Books menu, then navigate by either tapping on the left or right side of the screen, or using the top (back) and bottom (forward) buttons on the grip. As you would hope, the Forma is simple to use.
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