We've been asking Kobo to make at least some of the GUI elements as options rather than forcing them on us. I've come to the point where I'm pretty sure Kobo really doesn't give a sh.. about their customers or at least whoever it is that makes these decisions doesn't. I sideload my epubs mainly because I do NOT want to see the title of the book at the top of every page. I do NOT have alzheimer's where I cannot remember what book I am reading from one page to the next no matter how many books I have on the go. I DO find having the title at the top annoying. I am NOT retarded in that I cannot figure out that if I press the centre of the screen and wait for the time to disappear that it will be replaced by the book title and hence I will be reminded of what book I am reading just in case I have bashed by head into something and cannot remember what I was reading.
People keep making the comparison to paperbooks. But they have the title on every page or every other page... Yes they do but why? Because a paper book can fall apart, the cover can be ripped off, pages can fall out. If all the title was there for was to remind people of what they were reading, then all they have to do is look at the cover. Sure balancing out the page by having the title at the top and page number at the bottom may have something to do with it as well.
Anyway that's my rant on this. I will not be updating and perhaps when my glo dies sometime down the road some other company will get my money instead. Or hopefully someone will trying jailbreak the Kobo, or better yet maybe Kobo will actually listen to us and make these displays OPTIONAL! Ohohohoh.... but that would introduce more bugs. LMAO, been there experienced that.
A few things I came across, found at
http://typophile.com:
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Keoxa may have it. In the 1600s, books were sold unbound. You had the bookseller do binding according to how much wealth you had, and the amount you wanted to spend. Samuel Pepys mentions this many times in his diary, as he was amassing his eventually large library.
I suspect the very stingy book buyer might have several smaller books bound together to save costs. In such a case a tradition of putting the title on the running heads may have developed.
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