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Originally Posted by sej7278
Just tried v1.8 on Fedora14 x86 and am generally pleased with it.
One thing I don't like is that it seems less like a desktop application and more like a port of the Android app.
It needs more standard desktop features like:
- a file->open dialog to open local epub files, or at least import into library;
- a night mode (I always use night mode on my Android);
- the ability to use different/smaller fonts;
- a configurable library location rather than just storing everything in ~/.local/share/data/Kobo/Kobo Desktop Edition/ (yuk spaces/capitals in filenames!)
- 64-bit dynamic version that uses the system Qt/OpenSSL not static ones;
- RPM packaging not just DEB
I don't know if the PC/Mac version has these kind of features though.....
I love the Calibre application but the ebook reader sucks, the Kobo/Kindle applications render so much nicer than the standard Linux readers (even FBReader). |
Hey! I was going to try that tomorrow with Ubuntu 10.04 x86-64 as I can't get my wifi to pick up the 1.9 fw update... nice to know that it works, but it sounds like you're not using it with an actual device though? But it's a start as I was under the impression that it wouldn't work at all...
From what I gather the app is primarily a skinned browser interface that is defaulted to going to the Kobo online store. The "shop" on the wifi kobo is the same, a browser hardcoded to go to their online store. Presumably the actual reader part is different though as a portion of it would be provided by Adobe who do the DRM...
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Dunno how you can stand to read books on a computer/notebook though. It just never worked for me except looking up specific items in technical documents or something that I was writing up, much prefer something smaller for fiction reading, i.e. dedicated reader or PDA sized device...
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