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my kindle is dying.
i am thinking about getting a kobo color libre ting
where i an annotate
is it easy to use?
how difficult is it to use pdfs with it? i want to be able to ready my pudefa's and make quick notes but not work at the same level as i would with my ipad
I’d love to hear about how you round out with that. The Libra looks interesting.
@wendythedruid ppl seem to like it. i think it will work w what i need it to do
i might bite the bullet soon
@CaribenxMarciaX I've been using them for years. They're good.
You can annotate by holding a finger down and selecting.
PDFs are a bit tricky because you end up zooming in and out, and going to the next page resets the zoom to a degree.
The onboard OS is good for seeing books and selecting the one to read. It's not great at *organizing* books. It can do it, but it's slow as hell, so a lot of people connect it to Calibre.
@OrionKidder i usually organize my shit in calibre, and just 'email' it my kindle. is the process similar?
@CaribenxMarciaX You can drop files into them manually by connecting to a computer, which is why I spend the extra money on them.
The one thing they don't do is Kindle-only books, which can be a pain.
I got a colour one because it was only $20 more, but I would have been fine with B/W.
@OrionKidder ah this kind of answered my other post , i didnt see this, sorry
@CaribenxMarciaX No worries. Happy to chat about it.
I'll be honest, I find Calibre unwieldy, so I don't generally bother with it, but my experience is you have to (sigh) physically plug the Kobo into your computer in order to interact. If there's an over-the-air solution that's not so technical that you're half building it yourself, I have not found it. I
