11/21/2023 0 Comments Kobo app free books![]() I’ve been waiting (and begging) Kobo to have a similar service for years. A lot of the books I read are independently published and when you read 100+ books a year, Kindle Unlimited offers a great way to read those books without breaking my bank - but still be able to support the authors monetarily. ![]() The ability to read as many books as I can for one price is AMAZING. > SERIESous Guide: How to Buy an eReaderīut one of the features I do like about my Kindle is the option to use the Kindle Unlimited Program. Also, in Canada, I can only put library books on my Kobo since they are ePub files–which can’t be opened on Kindles. I love the reader friendly features of the device and that they were originally a Canadian based company. I’ve been a long time Kobo eReader User and, if asked, I’d say that I prefer my Kobo to my Kindle if I had to choose. As I read a few books with Kobo, the slow page-turn animation grew less frustrating, but I continued to feel the lag whenever I turned the page.**This is in no way affiliated with Kobo! It is simply my take on using the service!** The curl, bizarrely, comes in the wrong direction: It seems to peel pages up from the bottom, like a legal pad. I settled on the flip, but it’s a hair slow to turn pages for my taste. ![]() The app offers options for other page-turn animations-a flip, a curl, or no animation at all-but I don’t love any of them. I found the animation jarring and entirely un-book-like. Read Anywhere: eBooks by Kobo runs on both the iPhone and the iPad the app will sync whatever page you’re on between the two devices.īy default, Kobo uses a fade-to transition between pages-that is, when you swipe to turn the page, the current page fades out as the new one fades in. I never experience such loading screens in Kindle or iBooks on the iPad. ![]() The process rarely takes more than a second or two, but it’s always noticeable. Unfortunately, in Kobo, the pages-remaining feature comes at a price: Whenever you reach a new chapter, the app locks for a moment as it calculates that chapter’s length with your current font settings. I appreciate that feature in iBooks and here in Kobo too, since it’s far more annoying to flip ahead a few pages to see where the chapter ends when you’re reading an e-book. Instead, the app shows you the number of pages remaining in your current chapter. I prefer sepia to a bright white page background, because I find it’s far less abrasive on my eyes.Īlso unlike most of its competitors, Kobo doesn’t offer virtual page numbers. ![]() Oddly, unlike almost all of its competitors, Kobo doesn’t offer a sepia-tinged reading mode. I found that using the nighttime mode with the brightness slider at its dimmest setting suited me just fine. While the app doesn’t offer Nook’s myriad options for tweaking the background and text colors, it does hew pretty closely to the Kindle app’s fine offering: You can adjust a brightness slider, and you can enable a “nighttime reading mode” which swaps the background and foreground colors, so that you’re reading white text on a black background. Similarly well-implemented are Kobo’s brightness controls. ![]()
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