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Originally Posted by the.Mtn.Man
You guys are overstating things. I would consider whatever bugs are in the latest firmware to be minor. It would be one thing if there were significant fatal bugs that harmed the usability of the device, but as far as I'm concerned, a glitch that causes it to display the wrong cover when asleep and slightly slower page turns on epubs are really not worth getting this worked up about.
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It's a minor annoyance to encounter some small bugs in the first release of an upgraded firmware, but it's a major failure on kobo's side not to fix these as soon as possible (and not to test releases properly in the first place). Especially if these bugs break functionality of older firmware versions and are unrelated to newly introduced features.
And the fact that fixing stuff like the cover display bug in the firmware should be VERY easy but has not been done leaves the impression that they do not care too much about their customers. The same goes for introducing half-baked features like their ergonomically somewhat dysfunctional implementation of shelves.
The criticism thus is not about the general usability of the touch as an e-reader but about Kobo's policy concerning firmware issues, which, from my point of view, leaves a lot to be desired.