[ageinghoody]

When I was researching e-readers I took a lengthy look at the Reading Life feature on Kobo. My reaction was, “Why on earth would I or anyone be interested in any of that”.

I find the idea of then exchanging these details on Facebook even more baffling!
I can’t imagine anyone wanting to know about my current reading, and I’m certainly not the slightest bit interested in theirs. And then when I first saw the Kobo webpage suggesting I “enrich someone’s day by sharing your favourite passages”, I couldn’t stop laughing for about 5 minutes. Surely whoever came up with that line must have been having a joke!

You’ll have gathered by now that the idea of “score-keeping” my own reading, and even more the whole concept of “Social Reading”, is completely alien to me. For some weeks I was actually deterred from buying a Kobo because of these utterly pointless features. However, I eventually concluded that they could in fact be ignored, and the KT, as a straightforward reader, was the best one for me.

I now realise from the number of posts on some relevantly titled threads, on this forum and others, (I haven't read them) that some people do find these features interesting and useful, and this is NOT a dig at them – each to their own. I’m just curious to know how many users out there are like me, who just want a device to download books, read them, and then, in most cases at least, delete them.

Anyone?