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Originally Posted by JCKobo

That isn't being a jerk at all, it's a very fair question.

We consider Adobe's renderer to be a Plan B, but there is some baggage that comes along with that, such as limitations on our ability to sync bookmarks across platforms.

Without implementing our own renderer, we can't build all the great features we have on our other platforms (at least not in a way that works with those platforms), and would effectively be the same as every other eReader that uses Adobe's platform.

For some users, Adobe's renderer would be enough, but it won't be enough for Kobo to deliver on our full promise, which is what we are targeting.

This is a great answer, I am one of the users who would like to have the whole shebang- syncing across platforms and retaining all the graphics and other niceties you see on an ePub, but also with the covers on loading screens and formatting you would see with the Kobo native format.

It's good to know it's being worked on for owners of the original Kobo. Personally I wouldn't mind some slower loading or another kind of performance hit to have these features, but I understand that you want it to run as smoothly as possible. Right now I'm happy with ePubs. I may just end up getting a Kobo Wifi in the future... but why did you guys have to give up the original color scheme of the device? =( The wifi models all seem drab to me, and should Kobo gain in popularity that blue button could have been iconic!

EDIT: Something I've always wondered and wanted to ask someone at Kobo about is what manga is being shown in this press shot?:



I've searched the Kobo store and Borders store but there really doesn't seem to be much in the way of manga at all. It would be pretty neat if we could start getting manga released on the Kobo store.