Kobo Touch vs Kindle 3 Comparison Review

[J0ER0NIN]

PDF's look like shit on all Ebook readers. Amazon is huge and doesn't seem to be losing steam anytime soon, so in my family there are four Kindles. Getting lots of books is very easy. If you find books that are not AZW or Mobi, you can use Calibre to convert them. Calibre does convert PDF files but they still suck. If you have the patience you can use an OCR software to convert the PDF, but it is a task, even if you pay for ABBYY Finereader. The one huge advantage is the SD card slot.

[Vindog76]

I have a Kobo touch and it is brilliant. I'd recommend the touch above the Kindle due to more places to buy books and ability to borrow elibrary books.

[lollalot]

Why The Kobo is actually better. You're not forced to use the Kobo book store like you are forced to only use Amazon books on the Kindle, you can read .epub file books from any store and open pdf, rtf and txt files. A new update brought 7 new fonts into the mixture so there are nine now. It is smaller, more robust and user friendly with regular updates (games, apps, etc:).

The kindle is nice but I know which one I'm getting...

[rangers2721]

the kindle looks so much better and easier to read

[deedrabbit]

why does kobo screen look so crappy compared with kindle

[LoganMilliken1]

The Kobo is much faster now with the newest firmware. It really lags in this video but now it doesn't, it is even faster than the Kindle.

[bufanpxl8r]

I DON'T CARE WHICH IS BETTER! I JUST WANT TO READ!

[1022fluff]

biased. You can buy books from anyone but amazon when you use the kobo. Amazon has a specific file type on all of their ebooks that will only work with kindle. I would like to be able to shop around on prices for my ebooks, so I will always go with one that uses EPUB format.

[Bregowald]

Oh fuck off. This VIDEO IS BASED AGAINST KOBO!!!!!!

FUCK THIS VIDEO!

THUMBS DOWN!!!!!!!!!

I am sooooo fucking angry. i am fucking TIRED Of this biased shit against the device i paid by hard earned cash for! FUCK this shit! i just broke my keybaord i'm so bad.......

[toast57]

@Bregowald Dude why do you care? You already have the Kobo, why does this review matter lol. You have anger problems.

[pooscifer]

@Bregowald LOLOLTROLL



[johnek2002]

Clearly biased to the kindle. He fails to mention that the Kobo is not proprietary. You are able to access all saleable book databases ( well over 2.5 million books) while the Kindle is amazon.com only. There are some much better written reviews of the 2 that are less biased.

[KubuntuYou]

@johnek2002 So it's possible to read kindle/nook/other ebooks on kobo? That would definitely be a major selling point for me but I wasn't sure about it.

[niaomalley]

@johnek2002 not true, which is probably why he didn't mention it.

[marta8000]

Clearly biased to the kindle...

[90frederick]

are they both black and white

and why do they turn black for a sec when you click on somthing

[iainmaule]

Kobo touch screen looks unresponsive, I'll stick to my Kindle. Good price though.

[mazhiyuan1]

Kindle is fucked up and know kobo can do line spacing and stuff and kindle is like a piece of shit

[elitewarrior11]

@mazhiyuan1 who cares about line spacing its useless unless your disabled

[pasu11]

nice review. very informative.

[moidage]

Thanks, give me a fairly good idea of what I should be looking for. It seems the Kobo is a little better value for money.

[OsirisIX]

Regarding DRM, can I use the ebooks I have stored on my PC on either of these models? I mean, I don't necessarily have to use their stores, right?

[Marcham89]

@OsirisIX What format are your ebooks?

[OsirisIX]

@Marcham89 Most are PDF, but I do have an EPUB converter too.

[Marcham89]

@OsirisIX Than the answer is yes. Do a google search for calibre-ebook... It will allow you to easily convert differant formats like PDF and EPUB to Kindle. The Kindle does show PDF natively, but it doesn't look great so you'll want it converted for easy reading.

[OsirisIX]

@Marcham89 Yes I have Calibre-ebook. Thanks for your help. 

[LaPetiteShawty]

You forgot to mention all the new added features of the Kobo Touch such as the Koba Sketch Feature.

[amtp2684]

Thank you so much for your review. Very helpful!

[phyCity]

Is the layout/visual appeal of the Kobo (home screen/quilted back) enough to promote itself over the Kindle?

Cost is not a factor.

[rikart16]

why do u keep saying nook

[fluffyiscute111]

What sold me on the kindle is the audio support. I need to listen to music while I read!

[bahbuhbuy]

What I like about the kobo touch that most reviewers fail to mention is that it has an SD card slot whereas the kindle doesn't. I can borrow ebooks from the library on the kobo but not on the kindle. It is lighter and smaller than the kindle. It is a much sturdier and robust machine than the kindle. And the cover has a nice rubbery feel to it that doesn't scratch or damage easily. I've dropped my kobo touch a couple of times and there's not even a scratch on it.

[manchesterisred99]

@bahbuhbuy doesn't the kobo play pdfs too? this is the game-changer for me

[ncdave4life]

Informative review, but your TheeBookReader(dot)com web site is down.

[ncdave4life]

Oh, wait, I see from the "show more" info that your web site is actually the-ebook-reader(dot)com. I suggest that you correct the URL shown in your video, to add the missing hyphens.

[HarpersIslandluvr]

Um just sating the Kobo does have line margin changing and all that stuff and a bookmark... go to the two Aa's in the bottom right corner when reading :) You might wanna figure out more about before you compare.

And you can make the font darker and everything.

[sketchymustache]

@HarpersIslandluvr i know this is 2 months late but just an FYI - kobo actually has updates so at the time he made this video the options you are talking about weren't available; they were added in later updates. :)

[HarpersIslandluvr]

@sketchymustache Um no they had them at that time...

[dtz1000]

No contest. The kindle wins. The kobo is a step backwards with poor screen contrast.

[mchao23]

@dtz1000 the contrast is the same, they both use the same screen (e ink pearl)

[sskk5533]

Kobo is waaaay better, it doesn't make me dizzy with 6 page flash, and much smaller with same screen size

[p95humbucker]

Not sure if you have herd of Calibre, Really awesome free program to manage your ebooks library. Reason for mentioning it was that you can put any format of ebook into it, (kindle, mobi, epub, pdf, txt,doc,chm, etc..) and it will convert it and make it kindle compatible and will then transfer it to your kindle. It will also fetch all metadata for your ebooks covers, summary, isbn #, etc..I've only used it with the kindle, but might work with the kobo. opens up the type of books u can add.

[blindox]

Thanks for your awesome review ! You have a clear voice ! I want read pdf with 20mb of size. Wich tablet you recommend for me : Kindle 3 , Kobo or Nook ? Can the nook handle with that ? I liked it because this tablet have android system.