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After a couple of weeks of KT ownership, these are my requests (few of them new, from what I've read, but hopefully numbers count!) Overall, it is a great thing with so much potential, but it is being let down by several oddities.
1. Very important: no forced updates to the firmware. Let me know that there is an upgrade available, then let me decide when/whether to do it.
2. Add an option to get rid of the carousel, or at least allow a list instead of the really ugly book-cover thing. Better yet, show a list/selection of recently used Shelves.
3. Fix the database bug that doesn't allow the same title to be put back on the KT after it has been deleted. (I think this is the same request as "tidy up the database properly when books are removed" that I have seen elsewhere.)
4. Configuration options for the sensitivity of the screen. This would hopefully reduce the number of missed/multiple page turns. Even better, if possible, differentiate between the actions for "This is me wanting to turn a page" and "This is me wanting to select something".
5. On a similar theme, add more configurations for page-turning sectors. One I would like is left- and right-sides do the same thing (either page "back" or "forward", depending on setting), and centre column to do the opposite setting. I would rarely need the page back setting if I could set it to turn forward at either side of the screen.
6. Add some way to order annotations logically. At the moment, they seem to be added to the list randomly. Also, allow tapping of highlights to go straight to the annotation associated with it (if it is supposed to do that already, I can't make it work).
7. I'm not overly concerned by the lack of a power meter permanently on the screen as long as there is a pop-up warning of low battery (the Jetbook has this at about 100 page turns left). So, one or the other, please - permanent power meter or pop-up.
8. A setting to turn the screen landscape. Again, the Jetbook has this, and it is very useful.
9. Fix the erratic behaviour of the drag-selectors. The chances of getting a clean selection on mine are very low - the selection leaps all over the page like a drunken grasshopper!
10. Nice, but not vital, would be a notepad function. This would presumably not take a lot of work, since it would be a variation of the Annotations function. Perhaps it could replace the rather pointless sketchbook (apologies to anyone who enjoys that function).
11. At some point in the future, it would be nice to make all this user-configurable, perhaps via the Kobo Desktop.
Of course, I add my voice to those wanting an end to the slow page turns - just because I haven't had that problem doesn't mean that I don't think that it is unacceptable. I hate to think how unbearable I would be if I was having to put up with it!! Also, I look forward to improvements in the way the Shelves work, along the lines of the suggestions recently made by others. They have the potential to be a really powerful tool for managing larege numbers of books, especially if some form of cross-referencing and ordering are adopted.
Keep up the good work!
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