I realize that some of my suggestions have already been mentioned, but I prepared a bit of a list so I'll just mention them anyway:
The Library feature needs some work:
- Folder and Tag support - with subfolders for authors, series...etc.
- The ability to view metadata, publishing info, dates, series info ...etc. from the Library browser.
- The ability to Sort Library by tags, publishing date, series info...
The dictionary is nice, but it could be tweaked a little:
- The capability to highlight a word within the dictionary entry and look it up would be a significant improvement.
-Additional language translation support would be nice: Latin, Greek, Russian... etc.
Some Installed Reference Work would be amazing, but if that is not feasible I have an alternative:
- Some sort of customizable shortcut tab which is accessible from either the Home page or within a book itself where links to installed reference works could be added. The capacity to search within said reference work for highlighted text would be a nice addition too.
- Bookmarks within individual books.
- Home page customization: Tabs for reference works... etc
- Support for custom images for sleep and power-off pages
- I can understand that Kobo might want to withhold some advanced functionality (social networking...etc) from side-loaded epubs, but the ability to save notes and highlights shouldn't be too difficult to add.
- Some sort of keyboard based general notepad which is accessible from within books could be very useful. The same notes could then be accessed within different books. The drawing pad was a cute toy, but this could be much more useful.
- Support for CBR, CBZ, RTF, HTML, TXT, and some basic image formats.
- The spacing of buttons could do with some level of customization for people with adult-sized hands, or Support for Stylus Use might obviate the problem.
- The Sudoku is neat addition, but is not a high priority.
Some Bugs:
- Page numbers in KEPUB files need to be fixed: Pages in
current chapter?! Huh!?
- I've noticed a problem where the sorting by author does not seem to follow the criteria followed by
calibre
- While not a reader-specific problem there needs to some option within the Kobo site to
just check for software updates.
A slow internet connection means that it can take half an hour to check for updates because it wants to automatically sync all my books.
Anyhow, that's all I can think of at the minute.
I hope you like some of my suggestions.
