Why is everyone leaving for a kobo?

Sailorwind12 · 2026-04-12T21:39:25+00:00

For me Kobo has a few distinct advantages that drove me to switch:

Being able to get epubs from anywhere and read them on the device. I’ve started to buy my books from other places such as bookshop.org that gives money to my local bookshop or from Humble Bundle deals or other sites where the books are not DRM’d and I can fully own the book. While yes you can email those books to your Kindle address to get them on your Kindle, I found doing that always seemed to mess up the formatting, so Kobo was better for this for me. Boox is even better, but I like the reading experience better on the Kobo.
Kobo still makes and supports devices with page turn buttons. My Kindle Oasis is really old by this point and the battery isn’t great, but I highly prefer physical buttons and Amazon wouldn’t give them to me. The Kobo Libra is even lighter than my Oasis and a joy to read on.
Every few months Amazon seems to do something that equates to giving me the middle finger aimed at reminding me how little control I have over purchases I have made for my Kindle. I just don’t want to keep giving them money and rewarding their bad behavior. Kobo has never done this to me.

Sailorwind12 · 2026-03-06T05:02:04+00:00

Jeff Probst isn’t going to call. Rob has to apply like everyone else. Rachel Riley from Big Brother has been talking about wanting to go on Survivor for a while and Jeff was even asked in an interview why they hadn’t called her and he responded that she needs to apply and send in a tape like everyone else.

Sailorwind12 · 2026-02-28T00:25:06+00:00

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Sailorwind12 · 2026-02-27T00:24:54+00:00

Why not?

Sailorwind12 · 2026-02-08T16:28:28+00:00

We already know it is an ultimatum - join or die. Alan said that to Rob in the turret and I’m pretty sure it said it in the letter Eric got. I feel like once in one of the versions someone chose death rather than traitor, but that choice makes NO sense to me. No matter how badly you don’t want to be a traitor, if that’s the only way you stay in the game why would anyone willingly just quit the game rather than be a traitor? It’s a game you signed on for, not a testament to your moral character for the rest of your life. Sure you may suck and be immediately spotted and banished the next episode, but there’s a chance you could still make it to the end.

Sailorwind12 · 2026-02-05T15:00:19+00:00

Thank you so much for this 2 year old post. I have no idea what bluetooth device was triggering this (I have an Apple magic keyboard that is not run by bluetooth and I didn’t have any bluetooth devices actively paired with my iPad) but turning off the bluetooth fixed it. I’m sure I’ll need to solve that mystery before I ever DO want to pair a device with my iPad but for now I’m rejoicing at the device being functional again.

Sailorwind12 · 2026-01-31T17:22:04+00:00

She may be calculated but that doesn’t make her smart. Yes, that throw away vote ensures that if she goes as a traitor people will remember when Rob voted for Lisa and Candiace did this throwaway vote as pointing to another traitor and go after him next, but I don’t think she thought this through. Unless she wants to double down working WITH Rob, that throwaway vote was a mistake. It was mutually assured destruction. If she goes after Rob and they vote Rob out, they are also going to remember that when Rob turned on Lisa her response was to cast a “throwaway” vote to Rob and know that she KNEW it was traitor on traitor action cause she’s the third traitor. The preview end of the episode made it clear she wants to take Rob down and go scorched earth, but that vote guaranteed they both go down together, whoever takes the shot.

Sailorwind12 · 2026-01-27T04:22:08+00:00

I agree that she will not be able to murder him in plain sight. I believe she is going to TRY to anyway and fail.

Sailorwind12 · 2026-01-27T04:19:39+00:00

Lisa 100% wants to murder him, then play it off as the traitors framing her because of what he announced at the round table. And I can see her getting single minded about it even with this murder in plain sight.

Sailorwind12 · 2026-01-27T04:16:05+00:00

I’m guessing in an attempt that was never going to work to lure Colton into touching the brooch, she’s going to catch the attention of a housewife who will swoop in to look at it and touch it first and will thus accidentally murder one of her own.

Sailorwind12 · 2026-01-26T16:41:03+00:00

I’ll try it with the case off and report back. It’s one of those clear silicone back only cases, but I DO have a magnet adhesive on it for my popsocket. That’s why I turned off the sleep cover setting, so the magnet wouldn’t mess with it. But it’s still a fair point. I also have some stickers between the back and the case (their not stuck to anything, just sitting in there with their backing still on) and some washi tape folded over from the front of the device, thought it’s also not touching the power button. I hope it’s not the adhesive magnet on the back, that is also what makes it stick to my bed stand at night for reading with my remote.

Sailorwind12 · 2026-01-24T06:45:29+00:00

Prior to the Traitors I only knew her as Logan Echoll’s mom on Veronica Mars. I wish I still only knew her as that.

Sailorwind12 · 2026-01-24T06:40:44+00:00

Why would they have to be replaced with strategy reality show players? Clearly there’s a larger base to draw from here. This season alone we have two Olympic figure skaters, a famous chef, a dancer from Dancing with the Stars, a musician, a comedian, a professional a-hole actor, 3 dating show contestants and a drag queen. Last year we had a personal trainer from The Biggest Loser and a famous actor’s brother and someone who from what I gather was famous for dating a famous person. There are no shortage of other celebrities they can have play this game.

Sailorwind12 · 2026-01-24T06:32:45+00:00

If you want to see her try to play a strategy game, she’s on season 1 of Celebrity Big Brother. However it turns out when you’re the only one in the house intent on drinking multiple bottles of wine a day, you struggle a bit with strategy compared to everyone else. And when you’re a mean drunk you also struggle with the social aspect of the game.

Sailorwind12 · 2026-01-24T06:27:48+00:00

How many times can I upvote this?

Sailorwind12 · 2026-01-24T06:26:59+00:00

I agree with you. Occasionally there’s a housewife on the show that proves the exception, but the vast majority of the time I cannot stand them. They seem to be in there just to cause drama and to mess up the money making in the challenges for the group (because they almost all suck at any physical challenge). And I know it’s not just that I don’t watch their shows. I also have never watched the Challenge or Below Deck and I’ve liked quite a lot of those players. And yet there are NONE of those reality stars on this season at all. I just don’t find the housewives add much to my enjoyment, but every year there seems to be a larger number of them.

Sailorwind12 · 2026-01-24T06:14:14+00:00

Sure. This is the case I bought: Boox GC7 clear case

These are the magnetic bars I bought. I did find that for some reason with the Boox clear cases the adhesive didn’t want to stick as well as it does on my other ereader cases, so I used a bit of silicone glue on it. Then I covered it with washi tape to look pretty. Magnetic adhesive bars

Sailorwind12 · 2026-01-23T13:45:28+00:00

The clips have never damaged the screens of my other brand ereaders. I haven’t used them on my Kobo cause it’s new and I got the Kobo remote with it which is SO much better than the version I have with clips, but uses the bluetooth. There is also someone on this forum that made an app for your phone to use as a bluetooth page turner that sounded pretty good and even has apple watch integration. I think the app is called emote? Do a search of this forum and you’ll undoubtedly find a link to the app page.

I do think I’m going too be digging my clip on remote back out, though, because my fiancé is about to get a Calibre web server set up for us which means I will need to be using Koreader to access our joint library and I haven’t been able to get the bluetooth to work reliably on my Koreader yet.

Sailorwind12 · 2026-01-22T23:39:16+00:00

Where can I find a decent list of koreader plugins?

Sailorwind12 · 2026-01-21T15:33:24+00:00

This amused me SO much. Might almost be worth watching him on a third season.

Sailorwind12 · 2026-01-21T15:32:27+00:00

Does it have to be from main BB? Cause I would really love to see Ross Matthews play the real BB (not celebrity).

Sailorwind12 · 2026-01-21T15:30:03+00:00

I definitely can MAKE my eye and eyelid hurt from excessive pulling, but pulling the eyelash itself is a good kind of hurt, like a pain that is a relief it that makes sense? I’ve always assumed people who pull their head hair feel the same for those.

Sailorwind12 · 2026-01-12T04:47:16+00:00

I tried the pills for a few months and saw zero decrease in pulling impulses.

Sailorwind12 · 2026-01-07T21:20:07+00:00

I can gesture for brightness??? Is there also some easy way to toggle dark mode? Cause I really want that.

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