iamthereforeithink wrote:Amazon is a great company for customers, but an awful company for employees. Amazon has a disproportionately high rate of burnout and employee turnover. They go the extra mile for the customer, at the expense of the employee.

Nora_Leonard wrote:

iamthereforeithink wrote:Amazon is a great company for customers, but an awful company for employees. Amazon has a disproportionately high rate of burnout and employee turnover. They go the extra mile for the customer, at the expense of the employee.

I'm not saying you guys are all wrong, I'm just asking how they accomplish this. They still have to have the cooperation of staff. I just think that if a company were that terrible to their staff there would be a high number of wrong or damaged orders. You know, like a waiter spitting in a rude customer's soup, only this time it would be the employers they'd be trying to sabotage.

High turnover can mean other things as well...like the work being unskilled and terribly boring. Now that I can believe!

Scot Dutchy wrote:My wife found a very good one for her Kobo with its own battery.

Oeditor wrote:

Scot Dutchy wrote:My wife found a very good one for her Kobo with its own battery.

Ah, I didn't realise Kobo did e-ink readers. I thought they used ordinary screens to keep the cost down. Mind you, I'm thinking a couple of years back at least.

ED209 wrote:

Nora_Leonard wrote:What adverts? I don't have any adverts on my Kindle? Unless if you mean one of the versions that allows you to browse the internet?

Nope, the basic kindles are 'supported by ads' that you can pay IIRC $15 to remove, but even then apparently (read the very first review) you still get treated to recommendations for books that fill half your homepage. Books that you can only buy from one place, naturally.

Whereas you could buy a kobo the same price, without any of the crap listed earlier, and still buy DRM-crippled ebooks in that peculiar proprietary format from amazon just as if you had a kindle. But while retaining the option to buy them in EPUB or any other format, from anywhere you like.

The latest E-Reader news has the Kobo e-reader having a ton of problems.

Many people who read ePub books on the Kobo are getting Font Size issues, where the font is so small it makes reading practically impossible. Sure the pre-loaded books look fine, but if you download books from any other site, forget easily loading them on your Kobo.

Many users are complaining about all the software and hoops they have to jump through to load different books on their e-reader, especially if you do not buy them from Kobo. Not only do you have to download Kobo’s bug-ridden software platform, but you also need to install Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Digital Editions.

Kobo has verified that these problems exist and estimate around two months until they can release a firmware update in order to fix this. Although Kobo blames Adobe for the problems with books purchased with DRM from other sites.

There are also other problems such as organizing your library with books you download from other sources, contributing to an ill-managed organization of your ebooks.

Although solutions exist to increase the font size in the ePub format the Kobo e-reader uses to display the books, they are not user friendly.

Regina wrote:Although solutions exist to increase the font size in the ePub format the Kobo e-reader uses to display the books, they are not user friendly.

Regina wrote:
Like I said, with Kobo you get recommendations for Japanese porn if you read a Star Trek novel.

Regina wrote:
In addition:
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from here: http://goodereader.com/blog/electronic- ... f-problems

ED209 wrote:

Regina wrote:
Like I said, with Kobo you get recommendations for Japanese porn if you read a Star Trek novel.

Ah, that will be why I keep recommendations for star trek books then

Regina wrote:
In addition:
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from here: http://goodereader.com/blog/electronic- ... f-problems

That link is over three years old so who knows what device it is talking about. Certainly there is no need today to install any kobo software, or any adobe software or DRM platform, or register an account with kobo or anyone else, or receive any adverts or recommendations

Nora_Leonard wrote:

Scot Dutchy wrote:Amazon alright as you do what they want. I never deal with them. Far better companies around without all the add hastle.

If you never deal with Amazon, how can you possibly say there is any hassle? On the contrary I find their returns procedure the most reliable of any I've heard of. So much so that I might look for a product in a store (so I can pick it up, or ask questions about it) and then buy it from Amazon, precisely because their returns procedure is hassle-free

Fallible wrote:I have found certain companies are excellet. And I do know why.

Scot Dutchy wrote:

ED209 wrote:

Nora_Leonard wrote:What adverts? I don't have any adverts on my Kindle? Unless if you mean one of the versions that allows you to browse the internet?

Nope, the basic kindles are 'supported by ads' that you can pay IIRC $15 to remove, but even then apparently (read the very first review) you still get treated to recommendations for books that fill half your homepage. Books that you can only buy from one place, naturally.

Whereas you could buy a kobo the same price, without any of the crap listed earlier, and still buy DRM-crippled ebooks in that peculiar proprietary format from amazon just as if you had a kindle. But while retaining the option to buy them in EPUB or any other format, from anywhere you like.

That is the great thing; you dont have to go to the Kobo store. I downloaded the instruction book from Samsung and read with Kobo reader. Being stuck with one format is being a hostage to one supplier.

Oeditor wrote:I've downloaded both files to my Kindle. The one from April is a request to register on the Other Forum - I can only think it's some sort of glitch because I've been there well over a year. It's disconcerting that a service intended to send requested items to my Kindle is able to pick up forums where I'm registered with the same email address. Especially as it will promise to send a new password to that address but doesn't, leaving me in a Limbo where I can't even cancel the service.
It's sendtoreader.com - you might like to avoid it.
Amazon, on the other hand, is excellent. Or would be if it treated its staff well and paid its taxes.

kennyc wrote:

Scot Dutchy wrote:

ED209 wrote:

Nora_Leonard wrote:What adverts? I don't have any adverts on my Kindle? Unless if you mean one of the versions that allows you to browse the internet?

Nope, the basic kindles are 'supported by ads' that you can pay IIRC $15 to remove, but even then apparently (read the very first review) you still get treated to recommendations for books that fill half your homepage. Books that you can only buy from one place, naturally.

Whereas you could buy a kobo the same price, without any of the crap listed earlier, and still buy DRM-crippled ebooks in that peculiar proprietary format from amazon just as if you had a kindle. But while retaining the option to buy them in EPUB or any other format, from anywhere you like.

That is the great thing; you dont have to go to the Kobo store. I downloaded the instruction book from Samsung and read with Kobo reader. Being stuck with one format is being a hostage to one supplier.

Nah, its called being naive and ignorant of your options. I buy books from all sorts of venders DRM or not, strip the DRM and convert them to whatever format I want for whatever reader (Kindle, Sony, Android Tablet, phone) I desire.