I got both a Kobo Touch and a Nook Simple Touch as Christmas gifts and, after almost three weeks of use, I wish there was such a thing as NooKobo. ;P They are both great e-readers, but neither is near perfect yet.
My wish list for future Kobo updates:
- Touchscreen responsiveness.—My screen is either too responsive (it skips 2 or 3 pages ahead*) OR won't respond at all, particularly on the home page.
- Speed.—I am satisfied with page turn speed since there's nothing to be done about the speed-ghosting trade-off BUT navigating the library and waiting for menus to load is impossibly slow, especially as the number of books loaded increases. Also, it takes at least 5 minutes for my Kobo to process new books. Is this normal?
- Collections.—I would like the ability to group books into categories. Otherwise, I'd be happy with a 'saved searches' function since Search on the Kobo Touch is pretty quick.
- Featured/Recommendations/Shortlist.—This must go! If customers paid full price, there should be no ads, retroactively or otherwise. I'm using the Shortlist option since it's least ugly BUT my Shortlist is reset EVERY time I sync with my computer!
- Less taps to pull up Dictionary and Translate.—Would it be possible to have buttons instead of a menu when one long-taps on a word? Also, I noticed that the deeper I get into a menu the more pixellated the screen becomes.
The screen responsiveness and speed are the two reasons that I am using the Nook Simple Touch as my primary e-reader, rather than the Kobo Touch. The moment the two problems are resolved, I will definitely be using the Kobo Touch instead since it has superior (a) font rendering & screen contrast, (b) format customisation, (c) dictionary & translate functions, and (d) interface design.
Go, Kobo developers, I'm really looking forward to the next update!
*I have the latest update installed.