Cheap Kobos at WH Smith

[julesjones]

Much as I love my Cybook Gen3, it's elderly. So I had it in mind to get one of the Nooks that were being flogged off at £30, should I be able to find one. Of course, there were none to be had, but in my wanderings around the Arndale Centre on Friday night just to be certain, I noticed that WH Smith were having a one day only special on Kobos - £20 off all models. Which made the Kobo Mini £30...

So I now have a Kobo Mini, which I have not actually plugged in and set up yet and thus cannot report on. However, if any other UK resident is interested in getting a cheap Kobo, keep an eye on your local Smith's, since they seem to be running this as an occasional promotion. The purchase included a multi-use discount voucher for 20% off any accessories I buy between now and August.

Comments

[neyronrose.livejournal.com]

I hope you like the Kobo Mini. I liked the Kobo Touch I had. I gave it to Dad, and he enjoys it. There were a number of options for font size on the Kobo Touch. I think it was eight or so. I really liked that feature. I sideloaded quite a number of e-pub e-books that didn't have DRM on them onto the Kobo, and that worked just fine. Kobo adds its own DRM if you get books from there. I'm curious to know what you think of your Kobo.

[julesjones]

The Cybook has a large range of font sizes available, so that was one thing I checked when I had a look at the Mini in the shop. A couple of years ago I'd have probably decided that the Mini's screen was too small, but since I now have to use reading glasses anyway with the Cybook unless I take the font size all the way up, it's not really an issue to have to use reading glasses to get a sensible number of words per screen.

I know Kobo sell a lot of books that have DRM because the publishers are being silly, but I was hoping that if it comes DRM-free from the publisher it would stay that way. I did buy the Subterranean Scalzi Bundle from Kobo, and that was DR<-free, but I was also buying a standalone epub to load onto the CyBook, rather than through Kobo's own hardware. I'll have to try downloading it to the Kobo directly rather than sideloading it.