It was a “little” buggy before the latest firmware update. After sale, coupons, $30 MIRebate, and Kohl’s cash, the thing ended up costing about $39. I purchased a Liberati from Kohl’s pre-Christmas. I don’t see any reason to get the Literati over the Kindle. The Literati costs $159, and the K3 Wifi costs $139.
This actually isn’t a big deal I’m sure it will be fixed. The Literati isn’t recognized as a USB drive. This isn’t just the first time it’s slow every time I open an ebook. It also takes a long time to load an ebook every time I open it. I tried to bring up the TOC and the Literati rebooted. I think the font is bigger because I hold it further away. Yes, the font is larger on the Literati, but it’s the fault of the Literati. Well, those are the font sizes I find comfortable on each ereader. Update: Mike Cane pointed out that it’s not fair to compare the different font size. BTW, I’m showing 2 photos because the first shows a section break that the Kobo edition doesn’t have. Here are a couple of photos that show the relative formatting. WTF is Kobo doing different from everyone else? It makes no sense.
Heck, Kobo ebooks are actually less pretty than Kindle ebooks, and that’s saying something.Īnd I just noticed that on a couple of ebooks, the Kobo edition doesn’t even have the full TOC. The Kobo edition always lacks the subtle refinements found in other editions. I have several commercial titles in both Kobo and another format. The Kobo editions are also significantly less pretty than their counterparts. I’m also annoyed by the large margins, but that’s really just a minor problem given the rest of the formatting issues. If you appreciate a well designed ebook then you will hate it too. I’ve downloaded a dozen freebies, and they are all the same. There’s space between paragraphs and no indents. Until I started using the Literati, I didn’t realize that Kobo ebooks had such limited formatting. I’ve sometimes had to reboot, but in the end the books were loaded. I’ve never actually had an ereader fail to load ebooks before. I tried a second time with a SD card that had only a dozen titles the same thing happened.
In fact, it can’t find any ebooks (not even the Kobo ones already on it). I took one of my SD cards with my standard Epub library (about 600 titles) and stuck it in the Literati. I also have trouble with it not recognizing a swipe, which irritates me to no end. I keep having trouble with it flipping forward, and then back to the page I just read. The swipe sensor is also incredibly sensitive. You can’t tap and turn the page only swipes work. Instead it has spots on the case that are touch sensitive. The Literati doesn’t have page turn buttons. I’m covering this irritation first because even if you disagree with my other complaints, this one will give you pause.
I also don’t like the joystick, but there are so many other problems that I’ll skip this one. There is a dictionary, but you can’t select a word on the screen (you have to type it in). Why put a keyboard on a device if you don’t plan to use it? You have 5 font size, 2 font choices, and you can adjust the brightness (seven settings). The Literati has no annotation options (not even bookmarks).
The library is pretty much identical to the Kobo PC app, so I’ll skip it here and jump straight to the reading abilities. It has a 7″ LCD screen, Wifi, and supports the Kobo ebookstore. The Literati is a Kindle clone that doesn’t bother to make use of its keyboard. But first I’ll give you a summary of its abilities. I have a number of complaints with the Literati, and I’ll take them one by one. I’m sitting here right now, watching it fail to load my personal ebooks, and I’ve decided that I’ve used enough to give my opinion.Īt the very least wait for a firmware update. I got a Literati about a week ago, and I was 1 of 4 blogs to get it.