I got my Kobo Glo from WHSmith (UK) last friday. I use my ereader mainly to read PDF files. Happy enough with my Kindle Keyboard, I wanted something a bit better: cover thumbnails, table of contents, more storage, better support for two columns documents and fantastic resolution...
I found a great improvements on all these aspects.
The landscape mode works well, I can use a very handy slide bar to go from one page to other and I can jump from one chapter to the following/previous with ease...
The experience is good enough to consider it a good improvement comparint it with my old Kindle Keyboard, but... I am considering the possibility of returning my Kobo Glo, because despite all these improvements the overall experience is not so good for the following reasons:
— No annotations. And "no annotations" means no annotations: I have not been able to find a way to select and highlight text on any of the pdf files I tested. And I have not been able to add notes on the text.
— No bookmarks.
— Turning pages when the zoom is on is possible (tapping the black areas on the sides), but that still keeps you in the same part of the page you were. For example, if you are finishing a page, reading the right area at the bottom of a pdf file and you want to continue your reading, after turning the page you will not start from the top left corner of the following page, but from the same right righ area at the bottom... so you will have to drag the whole page before you start reading that page. Painful.
— No contrast settings for pdfs. That would be useful even when te light is not on (and very very useful when you read with the light is on)
If someone have any suggestion on any of this issues it will be very appreciated. Or any other comment about PDF support on the Kobo Glo or any other device (Kindle Paperwhite, maybe... that is the alternative that I am considering now...)
I found a great improvements on all these aspects.
The landscape mode works well, I can use a very handy slide bar to go from one page to other and I can jump from one chapter to the following/previous with ease...
The experience is good enough to consider it a good improvement comparint it with my old Kindle Keyboard, but... I am considering the possibility of returning my Kobo Glo, because despite all these improvements the overall experience is not so good for the following reasons:
— No annotations. And "no annotations" means no annotations: I have not been able to find a way to select and highlight text on any of the pdf files I tested. And I have not been able to add notes on the text.
— No bookmarks.
— Turning pages when the zoom is on is possible (tapping the black areas on the sides), but that still keeps you in the same part of the page you were. For example, if you are finishing a page, reading the right area at the bottom of a pdf file and you want to continue your reading, after turning the page you will not start from the top left corner of the following page, but from the same right righ area at the bottom... so you will have to drag the whole page before you start reading that page. Painful.
— No contrast settings for pdfs. That would be useful even when te light is not on (and very very useful when you read with the light is on)
If someone have any suggestion on any of this issues it will be very appreciated. Or any other comment about PDF support on the Kobo Glo or any other device (Kindle Paperwhite, maybe... that is the alternative that I am considering now...)