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I was reading an article about Spanish residency today and someone in the comments was warning people that the food there just isn’t any good. I wonder what their idea of ‘good’ is.

Interesting. Only one or two threads that have been commented on in the last 48 hours.

This.

Personal attacks, instead of counterarguments. So, it’s political, and not about the device and ecosystem.

Kobo’s great color e-readers are held back by lock-in …the UI feels more focused on selling books than reading them…. https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/4/24158251/kobo-libra-clara-colour-e-reader-review

I mean, you guys can come up with all the edge cases you want. Most ‘grandma’s’ know Amazon. Ta da.

And yet, it’s the world we live in, so celebrate the wins you have instead of only complaining about it not being so much better than it is.

Ask grandma if she’s ever heard of “Rakutan Kobo” and then ask her if she’s heard of Amazon.com. And ask her who she might already have an account with.

The alternatives are good for a technically oriented enthusiast, but don’t hand it to grandma or cousin Sal.

Same. I do have a big (virtual) pile of books I bought in the past on Amazon, but these days I use Libby (produced by Overdrive) to borrow much more than I buy from Amazon. FYI: They aren’t free. Your tax dollars (and federal grants) fund your local library.

My Paperwhite doesn’t have ads and I didn’t pay for or ask them to be removed. It wasn’t quite a decade, more like 7 or 8 years, but after getting my money’s worth I traded in a still functional device for a newer one on sale recently. Nothing special about that.

I saw one headline on my tablet: ‘Vizio reminds us that you usually end up paying more for cheap TVs’ And a different one on my desktop.

I just want to acknowledge you for putting your head down and chasing the story. I think you’ve bern unfairly maligned in the front page comments of some (many) of your stories recently.

They do, and they will. Any published Kindle review is like the Bat Signal, summoning them from the furthest parts of the Internet. edit: and right on queue, 5 comments down ⬇️

(There are three things that are certain in life: death, taxes, and Kobo fans showing up to comment in Amazon Kindle review threads.)

I know reviewers review the device in front of them at the moment, but I see this release as a step in the evolution of the product line. I’ll buy one eventually, just not yet.

I just want to say that the mods probably deserve a raise for the increase in muck they’ve had to deal with in the year or so.

But the links work and copy correctly too.

Is that still true in 2025?