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janpeeters · 07-11-2012, 06:23 AM

Hi BensonBear,

Thanks for your questions, let me clarify.
Yesterdays new 2.0 update gives me shelves, that's a really great improvement. The functionality and interaction design of shelves is nicely done. The UI implementation could have been better. I want to select shelves quickly from my home screen if possible. Maybe in a dropdown menu. Now it's quite a few clicks away.

The reason that I wanted to be able to organize was that with big libraries it takes a lot of time to find a book (e.g. if you don't recall the title or author search is useless). So knowing that it was about psychology or natural science makes it easier to retrieve. But this request can be seen as fulfilled for know.

Your second question about the PDF reflow...
Apps like GoodReader on Apple iOS have the possibility to reflow the text. This means that the text get's ripped out of the PDF and redrawn so that you're not stuck with small characters on long lines or have to scroll through a line of text to read the PDF. It starts behaving like a normal ebook, where you can change typesize, lineheight etc.

Hope this clarifies it.

My list has changed with the 2.0 release:

- Being able to change the home screen of the Kobo. I'm not a big fan of the book collage and would prefer to see a list view of my shortlist or shelves.
- The same font/line-height/etc view for all sorts of EPUBs (side loaded books as well as Kobo desktop books). It varies a lot per book if this is possible and to what extend.
- And besides that a typography override per book would be nice. So if you tick a box, you can set custom typography settings.
- PDF reflow, very important to have readable views of PDFs.
- A Kobo Desktop app that let's me load/add free EPUBs from other sources. If you're worked about piracy, do it like Apple iTunes. They allow you to do it, but what you load into it is your responsibility.
- Landscape mode for EPUBs
- Dutch for translations in dictionary.

- The website states that Kobo Touch supports MOBI, but I've not been able to read a DRM-less MOBI on my Touch. Am I missing something?
Update: I've found that it does support .mobi, but the epub is still preferred.

Jan

07-11-2012, 06:23 AM	#855
janpeeters Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: Kobo Touch	Hi BensonBear, Thanks for your questions, let me clarify. Yesterdays new 2.0 update gives me shelves, that's a really great improvement. The functionality and interaction design of shelves is nicely done. The UI implementation could have been better. I want to select shelves quickly from my home screen if possible. Maybe in a dropdown menu. Now it's quite a few clicks away. The reason that I wanted to be able to organize was that with big libraries it takes a lot of time to find a book (e.g. if you don't recall the title or author search is useless). So knowing that it was about psychology or natural science makes it easier to retrieve. But this request can be seen as fulfilled for know. Your second question about the PDF reflow... Apps like GoodReader on Apple iOS have the possibility to reflow the text. This means that the text get's ripped out of the PDF and redrawn so that you're not stuck with small characters on long lines or have to scroll through a line of text to read the PDF. It starts behaving like a normal ebook, where you can change typesize, lineheight etc. Hope this clarifies it. My list has changed with the 2.0 release: - Being able to change the home screen of the Kobo. I'm not a big fan of the book collage and would prefer to see a list view of my shortlist or shelves. - The same font/line-height/etc view for all sorts of EPUBs (side loaded books as well as Kobo desktop books). It varies a lot per book if this is possible and to what extend. - And besides that a typography override per book would be nice. So if you tick a box, you can set custom typography settings. - PDF reflow, very important to have readable views of PDFs. - A Kobo Desktop app that let's me load/add free EPUBs from other sources. If you're worked about piracy, do it like Apple iTunes. They allow you to do it, but what you load into it is your responsibility. - Landscape mode for EPUBs - Dutch for translations in dictionary. - The website states that Kobo Touch supports MOBI, but I've not been able to read a DRM-less MOBI on my Touch. Am I missing something? Update: I've found that it does support .mobi, but the epub is still preferred. Jan