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Originally Posted by SCION
Others have no issues on their non-Kobo devices.
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Actually, my mom got a Nook last Christmas (I had a Kobo1, but she liked the button placement, shelves, etc better on the Nook), and has had a variety of problems - trouble with some books not loading, and then the battery started dying on her, the charge was dropping like 15% per day, even when she wasn't using it. Also, in the newer version of calibre I just got, there is a great line whenever I convert a book to an ePub (via commandline):
*The cover image has an id != "cover". Renaming to work around bug in Nook Color*
So all of the eReaders have their faults - is the software on others more robust? For all that I love my KT, I'd have to say probably so... But it is a smaller company, and less mature, so that doesn't surprise me.
I guess personally, I would say I do have a fairly high tolerance for faults given my software development background, but also high expectations. But then, with closing in on 500 books and 200 hours on my KT (and many many more on my Kobo1), the only problem I've had was partly my fault, since I had extra periods in the path to new files - they should deal with that better, but that is a common software "feature" and I should know better too!
Back to the original question - I'd say make sure that all of the major and middling bugs are being taken care of, the start adding new features. But there are only so many people that can be attacking a given bug and being useful, so I'm guessing other people are working on new stuff at the same time (and I agree, reading life features are cool, could care less about facebook).