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Originally Posted by MacEachaidh
Even if there's no more development for the KT beyond F/W 17, it's still a darned good reader that stands up well against its competition and (unlike the iRiver) one I don't regret buying. :-)
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I don't regret buying the Touch, it has features I like, like the ability to handle ePubs, change margins, change font sizes and add fonts (although I don't use this).
But, it still has very annoying bugs:
- no top margin
- screen freezing
And features that are not implemented correctly:
- inability to store 32 gb of books on the SD, as the images will completely overconsume the onboard space (only 1.5 gig or so)
- inability to manage the SD card contents if there is too much if it (timeouts on processing new content)
- lack of ability to easily manage more than 100 books (bookshelfs apparently implemented but not visible)
- incomplete implementation of html/css (half spaces, small spaces, small caps not working)
- an apparent lack of testing
I don't care so much that they are pushing advertising to my Touch (purchased outright not as an advertising supported model), as I have some database sql that deletes the advertising very easily.
There is an almost complete lack of communication from Kobo about fixing the bugs. I'm not talking about new features that they may not want to disclose to their competitors, I'm talking about 'we're going to have a fix for the top margin bug in the next release'.
I also get the impression that Kobo is a marketing driven bookstore, not a technology development company, as the first thing that a TDC would do is FIX THE BUGS before introducing new features. Yet, it is becoming clear that the release schedule is based on what new social features that the marketing people can come up with, not when there is a set of features that is usable to the current owners of the hardware.