When you buy a device like the recently announced Kindle Oasis 3 or the Kindle Paperwhite 4, you essentially receive a fairly locked down device. I owned both in the past and I did quite a bit of research to make up my mind this time around, so I’m sharing what I found with you. Will the device I buy tie me to the Kindle ecosystem or the Kobo ecosystem? And which one is better? Kindle vs Kobo The biggest decision was not so much which specific device to buy, but rather which ecosystem to marry into. I’d snap one up, as the Sage is more expensive and has, to my mind, superfluous features if you don’t want to mark up PDFs on your book reader.I recently ordered a new e-reader. In all, unless you’re married to the Kindle and Amazon’s ecosystem, the Kobo Forma is a great ereader.

Calibre works just fine for installing books you can de-DRM your Amazon purchases and move them over to your new device.

It’s not a show-stopper but it feels half-baked.

The screen auto-brightness adjustment goes through many shades and levels of brightness before settling in one place.

The Kobo interface is simple and accessible, but there’s an inexplicable use of italics in the menus that looks terrible.

The sleep/wake power button barely depresses, while the page-turn buttons wiggle in their seats.

The hardware quality isn’t up to Kindle snuff.

The Forma is about 15 grams lighter than the Paperwhite wider-but-thinner form factor makes it feel downright wispy.

The Forma is here, and I have a few comments:

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