Kobo arigato
June 9, 2010 at 12:48 pm 1 comment
Speaking of The Dead (previous post) my Kobo is kaput. I ordered it mid-April, it arrived April 30 and as of Sunday, June 6 it was done. I was championing it wholeheartedly when I first got it. I wasn’t loving the ragged right layout of the text or the massive amounts of spacing, which necessitates a ton of page turns and therefore depressions on the right side of the blue “directional pad.” But I loved the gadget. Strangers would ask me about it in the park and I would sing its praises: so affordable! Thin and easy to carry! Yes, I can read it in the sun, no, there’s no eye strain — it’s not backlit, see?
But then the battery died on me mid-chapter a couple of times, and I couldn’t figure out how to sync the Kobo without needlessly reloading books I’d already read from my library onto my device. And then the final straw: the screen of death.
My call to Kobo was answered quickly by a friendly CSR who walked me through re-charging it and asked whether I’d been “safely removing the hardware” after charging (I hadn’t), but another long charge didn’t improve the situation, nor did the inevitable poke-with-a-pin to reset the device. Now all I have is a white screen with a band of black at the top and a box that arrived from Kobo today to ship the device back.
A search online revealed a few similar tales, but not many — I’m hoping mine is an anomaly.
Funny thing is my mom gave me a Sony eReader a few days after my Kobo arrived and I returned it, wanting to stick with the “Canadian” reader.
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Jennifer Waters | June 26, 2010 at 10:44 am
hi Micheala,
I thought I would hate a paper book, but… I have a Kindle and really like it. Doesn’t replace a traditional book but it is great. Doesn’t have the issues you mention above.
Jennifer (Isabella’s mom)
P.S. The book of the dead pics are fantastic!