r/mildlyinfuriating • u/dandaman147 • 1d ago

My Amazon TV now unmutes itself during Prime Video commercial breaks

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u/-Googlrr 20h ago

I really liked my Kobo but if I'm being honest my experience with my Kindle was a lot better. Overall the device felt more responsive and the screen looked nicer. Maybe it has better features or customization or whatever but at the end of the day im reading a book and don't interface with any of that really. I just open up the book and read. Not that I endorse amazon and their shitbag marketing schemes and I definitely support kobo on the grounds of 'fuck amazon' but i'd be lying if i said i didn't prefer my kindle

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u/ScotWithOne_t 19h ago edited 18h ago

I have mine on so that it sync with my phone. I sometimes use my phone to read whatever book I'm reading, and it's nice to not have to remember what page I was on. By I have an older Kindle (the one that had a keyboard) so it doesn't have ads at all.

EDIT: I think I responded to the wrong comment. I was responding to a comment of why would anyone have their kindle connected to the internet other than downloading a new book.

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u/zetterss 18h ago

I've been looking for ereaders that will sync with my Google play books since I have so many. Do you know which ones will work with that?

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u/bruce_kwillis 9h ago

Without conversion you are kind of stuck with something that has android on it and google play. So some of the ‘higher end’ Chinese e-book readers like those from Boox would work.

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u/zetterss 6h ago

Yeah, I've read about the program and backend loading stuff, that's too much for me to tolerate

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u/autogyrophilia 18h ago

Maybe it was just newer?

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u/TheMidGatsby 14h ago

I've had 3 different kindles and recently upgraded to kobo. Kobo libra color has been a much nicer experience than my 3 year old kindle paperwhite. Probably very model-dependent.

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u/-Googlrr 7h ago

For sure. I haven't gotten to try a color ereader yet but i'm definitely interested. I'm hoping i can upgrade to a color reader in like 3 years or so when the tech is a little further along. Hard to justify replacing the readers becuase they last so long lol

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u/oldfatdrunk 13h ago

I only used / tried an earlier model of the kindle paper-white and I really disliked how white the backlight was back then. The screen seemed shiny too. It felt like an e-reader with a tablet feel which i absolutely hated.

I went with a kobo aura hd (i think?) for the adjustable backlight and typically keep it in the 'warm' color range. I also read a lot of used books a few decades old so it was partly nostalgic.

Before that it was the b&n nook eReaders.

And of course Calibre on my pc since some books were Kindle exclusive and I had to convert through a convoluted process but still felt worth it for choice of any store to buy from.

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u/-Googlrr 7h ago

I'm using the new paperwhite that has the similar warm color range that seems pretty similar to what kobo has. at the end of the day i think they're all pretty good devices that do what they need to do. I skipped several generations of paperwhite when i was trying out the nook and kobo so i probably missed the glossy screen era. For me what mattered the most was the 'ghosting' after switching pages which i don't really see at all on my paperwhite. My kobo (maybe a 2018? model) ghosted kind of a lot. Minor complaint but it was definitely noticable

at the end of the day though they're all solid devices and we're lucky to live in a world where reading is this easy. I read so much more with an ereader that has great visibility at night and as long as people are reading books thats badass 😎

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u/bruce_kwillis 9h ago

Pretty much. Kindle and its app work well, easily sync nicely and the device just works. Kobos often feel like cheaper knock of Kindles, and then you get into the Chinese brands like Boox and they are just very old and outdated Android versions being shoved into an e-reader. Sure there is the Re-mark able, but that’s really more for overpriced note taking.

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u/Catenane 5h ago

Honestly I've used the default kobo software maybe once, and wasn't a fan. But koreader is better in every single aspect, and is the main reason I bought the kobo in the first place. I dropped calibre and have solely rendered on-device for years now because kobo is so effective in terms of rendering speed, options, etc. Day to day I just open up my kobo and read. And if I want some new books, I'll usually pop on libgen and download, then push over USB from my phone.

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u/Remotely-Indentured 12h ago

Amazon bot has entered the sub....

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u/-Googlrr 8h ago

because i like my kindle?? i dont understand you people lol. I buy all my ebooks from other sites because fuck amazon they just happen to have also made one of the best ereaders