[mariusor]

> Apart from the ereader feature, how does Kobo compare against Kindle

I can't compare directly with Kindle, as the last one I used was a couple of years ago.

But the features that directly appealed to me are stylus support for two of the latest models: Elipsa and Sage.

It has support for Overdrive as far as I know (though not in all countries). It has support for dropbox. It supports more formats, which makes it a favourite for sideloaded manga/comics reading.

It's easy to root and run your own code on it, there's a pretty healthy community of modders out there. Under the hood is just a linux machine.