Display:
Here the display of the Kindle is definitely better. It is "glassy", the finger movements are more sensitive and which has been demonstrated in some tests with the microscope, the contrast, the sharpness of characters is better. Also can be ugly greasy fingerprints quite easily wipe, which is not so easily achieved at Kobo. Nevertheless, as evidenced under the microscope, my eye looks just as yours. As ordinary petrol you see no difference - by the way, if you magnify normal font on paper with a microscope, sharpening the letters a lot more.
Lighting:
Both provide sufficient illumination of course, at the bottom of the light sources of LEDs are easily recognizable in bright light and throw minimally adjusted their halos. You will not be perceived in normal lighting on both devices when reading.
External SD card slot:
The Kindle has not, the Kobo has it. Now the question has to be, what advantage an external card because ever has. Without a map you can load hundreds of books on two readers, with map so you can invite you to the 30,000 books to the e-reader. What for? Still to come, that one from the Reader from the SD card can not manage (!), So that one always needs a computer with an appropriate software, such as "Calibre" to do so.
With a tablet or MP3 player 32 GB of additional memory are worth gold, with an e-reader they are in the end only a promotional gimmick. No promotional gimmick? Then here a little something to those who praise the external 32 GB SD card so suppose this space would be used (it is enough for about 30,000 e-books) to read, and also assumed to read a book in 2 days (only in theory, these non-readers actually think such a thing), then you need 164 years to read everything. The about sense and nonsense of the SD card.
Possible settings:
In principle, the reading settings are identical. When they are presented in stages Kindle and the Kobo these settings are displayed continuously by means of a slider. The error in many tests is that some testers have the slider back and forth quickly and then judged that this was variable and therefore better than the level setting. But unfortunately that is wrong, because only the presentation appears with the slider when you push slowly, you realize that also are behind individual stages.
The Kobo can counter Kindle represent the font flush left. At a high magnification of the text that is useful because too much word gaps are avoided in justification - but even here I realized: this is only possible in some e-books, with many, the formatting can not be changed.
Password protection:
With the Kindle Paperwhite you can access to a: the device, b: the cloud, c: the shop and d: the Web browser either individually secure with password. I find that exemplary. The Kobo Glo can not lock - but (there's always a but) buy, the Kindle can be with only two to three Fingerstips (What do you call that?) A book. If the Kindle is left lying somewhere and someone wants to harm you, he can be your checking account to charge a lot of money in 5 minutes. And precisely because the Order is so simple, the Kindle has these prima password security.
Although the Kobo Glo has no password protection, but you can not just buy them by finger tap books, but has to enter his data then because of Kobo's not strictly personalized. So, both are ultimately a matter of taste. Comfortable but the reliability of the Kindle.
Interim balance:
Up to this point is actually not a judgmental difference between the two devices available, it is up to the preferences of customers who prefer a like this, the other that - technically they are equally good.
But now:
The Kindle is forcing you to buy books at Amazon. This is definitely bad. Now, if one starts from two options, then it looks like this:
1. People who buy books only from Amazon, which it may not matter. All books purchased are anyway copy protected. Amazon also has one of the largest and most expensive shops. Competitors protect their books alike, but use the "epub" format, the most widely spread until today. But we do not know what will happen tomorrow, because Amazon is currently with the other manufacturers and dealers in the middle of a war. No one can seriously an end predict ählich as the browser war of InternetExpores with Netscape and Firefox.
2. Who uses e-books that are not copy-protected, always has the option, every e-book to transform by means of the free, legal and free software "Calibre" in each format. Thus, even the Kindle Paperwhite processed without difficulty converted e-pub files.
Quintessence:
Both units offer different advantages and disadvantages that have mainly to do with the distribution of e-books, but hardly something with the art. That should absolutely respect for the many tests of various magazines and blogs and view the test results in detail also. Most 'other' interests for the results are just crucial. Incidentally, the "computer image" has not in my view objectively tested (but politically: Testers liked Amazon as a giant is not so much, so just as Microsoft often rejected in certain circles).
It is also my opinion the font magnification with a microscope, including then comparative images of both Reader at normal size, but when the light is adjusted significantly darker, with the statement: "This difference in contrast sees the normal eye" absolutely frivolous.
The number 3 in the Computer Bild test, the Thalia e-reader has a friend of mine and is therefore also very satisfied. All three reader costs trade matter.
George B. Mrozek
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SUPPLEMENTARY 1/2:
Amazon makes here a very nasty trick to better represent its own Kindle Paperwhite than the Kobo Glo, namely to distribute the customer reviews is actually three identical devices:
KOBO Glo eBook Reader
KOBO GLO eBook
KOBO GLO eBook
I would call this unfair competition.
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SUPPLEMENTARY 2/2:
Thanks to a suggestion in the comments that pointed forward to write something about the navigation, I would like to add the following comments to my review:
Basically a menu then becomes a problem if one still stumbles after the adjustment period over them, because it is constructed confusing or illogical. That's not the case with both devices. Although it is a little different, as is the case for example, even with different phones, but are found fairly quickly on both devices cope.
The vocabulary, terminology, this is different. The sorting of books for better clarity occurs when Kobo in so-called. "Shelves". The Kindle has the same function, called a shelf but "collections". Whether in which a device of the "home button" (to reach the home screen) is up or down or whether the icon of the setting, the present by a similar symbol in both devices is the way (taken over by the Linux operating system via Android) to is to find a different place of the screen, the menu does not matter, because after the first trying out immediately moves the respective arrangement of the points into the brain and to intuitively find the appropriate menu item.
In general, the menu guidance for both e-readers is intuitive and self-explanatory so that even a computer operator inexperienced person finds itself nevertheless quite at home.
A final word on the in the Amazon reviews often mentioned mismatch of viewing PDF files: They are basically not the favorite files for a Reader. Even the Kindle it shows long to not as good as mobile or AZW3 files. "Calibre" means the free and freely available program, however, can easily convert PDF files into readable files for all readers - here the Kobo halt E-Pub files. All e-books and shelves are also equipped with "Calibre" also manage the local computer perfectly.
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