I have been a bit whiffy on Kobo’s e-readers in general. I don’t know what it is. They should align a bit more with my philosophy and I like some design choices but they also don’t spark joy in the way even something like Calibre’s reader if only we could get a truly blank-slate e-ink device. Maybe we can. The technology seems to bounce around pretty hard. Still…
Reading Good e-Reader’s article “Everything you want to know about Kobo Stack” further failed to spark joy. It allows you to share extra-Kobo documents across all your devices and allows for mark-up and potentially some other things.
I think it was around this part of the article where I sighed, though:
If you stop paying for the Kobo Stack subscription, you get a 60-day grace period. After that, the notes and annotations stored in Stack are permanently deleted, and so is anything else living only in the Stack cloud. Books already on your device stay, and so do your Kobo purchases. Kobo itself tells you to export your notes and download your files during those 60 days.
Blah.
Another perpetual subscription just to keep your own creative output.
And…..skip.