I am accumulating a serious book backlog because of these storybundles...

The latest here is a Doctor Who bundle. I somehow resisted for about 3 minutes...

http://storybundle.com/

You poor weak human - I reckon you should have survived at least 14 days, 10 hours.

I'll say. I was wishing for some DRM-free eBooks to go on the used Kobo I bought a few months ago; now I don't know what the hell to do about all of these eBook bundles going up.

I'm definitely going to get this, even though the quality of some of the books looks questionable. (A Doctor Who-inspired cookbook? Really?)

But you can make a Dalek out of a banana!

Yeah I almost skipped adding that one into my library altogether :) The Vworp one looks really cool though.

I got it strength of previous StoryBundles I got. Enjoyable books I never would have found otherwise. Nothing that would be award-winning, but definitely worth a contribution.

Which Kobo did you get? Have you searched for the Baen stuff from http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/ ?

I've generally liked StoryBundle's offerings, but the last bundle I bought (The Video Game Bundle) was especially noteworthy in how somewhat rough and unpolished the offerings were. I really liked the critical analysis of Spec Ops: The Line, and Ralph H. Baer's account of his role in the origin of video games, but in both cases they needed a significant amount of editing in terms of grammar and flow.

I can understand the reasons behind Baer's tone in his book (after all, people to this day give Nolan Bushnell most of the credit for Baer's work) but it came across as him constantly trying to beat out this message that he deserves all of the credit for inventing video games. Which I agree with, but it didn't make for engaging reading from a literary perspective.

We'll see how the offerings in this bundle fare; I really hope more attention and care was taken for editing in these books.

Edit: Incidentally, I have a 2nd-Gen Kobo, and a 16 GB Kobo Arc. The former is pretty serviceable if you can over the horrible on-screen keyboard and the sluggish Freescale CPU; the latter is an excellent Android tablet with good build quality, specs and features…that sadly couldn't compete price-wise with the vaunted Nexus 7 (though the Arc is leagues better than competing tablets from Lenovo, HP and Asus).

True, I have a few times seen "discrete" used where "discreet" should be, among other little errors.

I am considering getting a Glo one of these days, despite how crazy cheap the Mini has been...

Not only that, but common errors like split infinitives, verb-tense disagreement, subject-verb disagreement, etc. just really elementary stuff that should have been caught by a good editor. I like to think that I'm paying for something professional, not a cheap rush job. It just detracts from the overall experience. If these were games, these would be bugs that we'd demand would be fixed ASAP. The Glo is good, but not as good as the Kindle Paperwhite, from what I've heard. The mini is a nice idea, but its exceedingly small screen stretches the boundaries for usability - past their breaking point, for many.

If I were to go for a dedicated eReader right now, I'd go for the Touch. The Aura HD is amazing, but for the price, I'd might as well go for the Arc.

I have an Aluratek Pro eReader right now, and I think it has the same screen size. It's never been a huge concern for me.

I'd never get a Kindle. I want an ePub reader, and I don't think any of their online free conversion and integration stuff works outside of the US.

The thing with Kobo is support. In the US, support is terrible. Since you're in Canada I hope it's better.

I really like physical buttons (touchscreens aren't nearly as responsive), so I'm not interested in Kobo.

On-Topic: Totally uninterested in a Dr. Who bundle.

Online conversion? Convert it and transfer it using calibre. The kindle eco-system is not as bad as some people make it out to be. If you know where to look, you can even use calibre to decrypt and convert the DRM-purchased ebooks. I convert all my ebooks to epub and mobi. Mobi is the format you need to convert any ebook's you want to read on a kindle. It takes maybe two minutes to convert any book (some of the manuals are longer).
I love my paperwhite, before it I had the Kindle Keyboard, before that the Sony PRS-505, and before that my old pocketpc.

I have a Kobo Glo too, and I really love it. The most annoying thing about it is the bug-ridden software, they really, really need to up their game in that department, since it seems they've had that problem since the beginning.

The Glo and the Paperweight are almost identical technically, but the Kobo is much brighter, which can give off the impression of being not as white of a lightas the Kindle, since there's some slight coloration on the higher settings. If you make it approximately as bright as the Kindle, there's practically no difference.
I also read that there are a lot of bad models of the Paperwhite out there, that do have coloration, while I haven't heard anything like that from the Glo.

Also, you can't completely shut off the light of the Paperwehite, only turn it (via software) so dim that you can barely see it, while the Glo has a physical button at the top.

I notice the Arc is $119 this week. Is that worth it? I already have an iPad 3 and an Aluratek reader, and I eventually want to have an e-ink device for battery reasons?

Just wonder if the overlap is too large to bother.

The Arc is a full-blown Android tablet (with a nice 1280 x 800 IPS screen), with a custom UI for Android 4.1.1 that hooks into Kobo's store and algorithms for discovering new content. If it's $119 at retail for the 16 GB version, that's an awesome price as most tablets in the $100-$160 price range have inferior 1024 x 600 screens, slower single-core CPUs, horrible build quality, or have a near-useless battery.

If you want a cheap Android device with a good batter, the Arc at this price is a pretty good buy. Otherwise, I'd suggest you save your money and get the Nexus 7.