Kobo store simply wasn’t as well curated asĪmazon’s Kindle store: a little searching suggested it had as many or almost as many books on offer, and big titles launched there at roughly the same time, but it was much harder to browse. Kobo fell down in our review last year when we pronounced the dreaded word ‘content’. Of course, if you’re reading something embarrassing you may not share our view. It’s nice to have a small extra link with the book, and it makes you feel more immersed. On multiple occasions eBook-using friends have sheepishly admitted to us that they don’t actually know what they are currently reading because they never get to see the cover, as they would with a physical book. Some may find the latter limitation annoying, but we love the default setting. But we suspect that at least some users will find the hair-trigger auto-rotation annoying, and would appreciate a third setting for total lock in a single orientation.īy default, the Kobo uses the cover of your current book as the screensaver – indeed there aren’t any alternatives, so if you disable this option you just get a blank screen with ‘Sleeping’ or ‘Power off’ at the bottom. We habitually swap hands, and after prolonged use would probably choose to keep things this way even if another option was presented. Now, we can see why the makers wanted to allow users to switch from left- to righthand use very easily, even if landscape mode was not wanted. But locked mode, while preventing portrait mode from switching 90 degrees to landscape, still allows the device to rotate the full 180 degrees, and it’s so sensitive that it often flips upside-down when you put the device down on the table. It can be used in either portrait or landscape orientation (the latter designed to have the grip at the bottom), and there’s an option to ‘lock’ this. We mentioned earlier that rotating the device automatically rotates the screen, but we have a slight reservation on that count. There’s a good range of text customisation options: 10 fonts, and the ability to fine-tune text size, margin size and line spacing to an enormously granular degree. Tap the central third of the screen to bring up menu options, including brightness, text size, and chapter quick jumps. Select something to read from the My Books menu, then navigate by either tapping on the left or right side of the screen, or using the top (back) and bottom (forward) buttons on the grip. As you would hope, the Forma is simple to use.
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