12-18-2015, 01:58 PM | #1 |
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Looking to replace my Kobo Glo
So I love my Kobo Glo. It is an e-nk ereader with built in front lights and can read the formats of books i want. However, Kobo has made it exceedingly difficult for me to purchase books from them. I would like a device that has the same features of allowing CBR/CBZ and EPUB files, e-ink, with a light, and non illuminated screen. My Kobo Glo has upgradable storage of up to 32GB via microSD would like this to be 64GB instead. Thanks for any help
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12-18-2015, 05:29 PM | #2 |
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Sorry that your experience with the Kobo store is driving you away from the Glo. Keep in mind that the Glo can read books from any store that uses Adobe's DRM, such as, for example, the Google Play Books store.
Given some help from Apprentice Alf's tools and a converter such as Calibre, you can even put books from Amazon on your Glo. |
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12-18-2015, 05:39 PM | #3 |
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Buy from Amazon .. Convert to epub side load to you kobo. Amazon gift cards work great for buying no need to have Credit Card on your account
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12-19-2015, 04:28 AM | #4 |
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You say that you want a "non-illuminated screen"? There are not that many non-illuminated devices sold these days. Is there any particular reason that you don't want a device with a frontlight?
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12-19-2015, 11:29 AM | #5 | |
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12-19-2015, 11:46 AM | #6 |
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Basically I want the device to be e-ink with with a light i can turn on and off for night time reading. My kobo glo has this feature, which was one of the main buying points for me. It has a button on the top that can turn on and off the light for night time reading. Also, you can adjust the brightness of the light with the little light icon on the top of the screen. This device was almost perfect for what I wanted. Only issues were it only reads files up to 2GB large, extra storage only goes to 32GB, and kobo gift cards are literally only found at frys and best buy in my region. And I have never seen them at either store. You cant buy the gifts cards on the kobo website either.
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12-19-2015, 12:49 PM | #7 |
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I have Never seen Kobo gift cards any where inc Best Buy. Amazon cards are in almost every store. I buy mine from CVS, Walgreens, Food Lion & Wies. Just to name a few.
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12-22-2015, 02:28 PM | #8 |
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Is there any device thats exactly the same as the kobo glo just made by a different company?
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12-22-2015, 05:05 PM | #9 | |
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As someone mentioned you could get a Paperwhite and convert your books to work on it and get books from Amazon and other sources. Personally I think that's the better option. Converting is fairly trivial. I think you said you had 500 books. It'll convert them for you in bulk and you can let that run overnight and you'll have them ready for the Kindle in the morning. I've never done that many at once but bulk converting 5 or 6 books takes a couple of minutes and requires no attention till it's done. Well, I say that's the better option but even better might be to see if you can iron out your issues with Kobo. Or buy books from Amazon and convert them to read on your Kobo. Barry |
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12-24-2015, 02:14 AM | #13 |
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GoldThreader--I'm pretty sure the Nook Glowlight or Glowlight Plus won't work for you--because of your requirement for more memory. Neither the Glowlight or Glowlight Plus come with extra memory--the Glowlight only has about 1/2 GB available for non-Barnes and Noble content. The GLowlight plus is a little better with 2.5 GB.
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12-24-2015, 06:32 AM | #14 |
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What format was the card? I've just done as search of the Kobo forum and can see several p eople have been using 64GB cards in the Glo. They seem to need to reformat it as FAT32 rather the exFAT. And there are reports of using 128GB with the newer ereaders.
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12-24-2015, 06:42 AM | #15 |
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Hi I have a kobo aura and out of all the books I have only a minor amount were purchased through kobo, I use sainsburys ebook site (used to use Tesco as well) any ebook seller selling epubs will be fine on a kobo. I also had a lot of freebies from amazon and thanks to apprentice alf and calibre I an now a calibre convert although keep ADE for any library books.
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