Thread: Kobo Android (or other Kobo software) Feature request
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Old 05-22-2013, 05:25 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by khahoon View Post
David

That is not an issue of how to read pdfs. There are great pdf readers out there already.

What I am requesting is much more streamlined book reading / book browsing / book searching experience through Kobo library management. As of now the Kobo library is becoming fragmented since some formats suffer badly due to bad conversions and ocrs.
We have a basic agreement on the pdf reader software available for Android. So why would you ask Kobo to put their resources into adding PDF reading capability when it is already available for Android (or iOS for that matter)?

As a matter of my curiousity, how many of those bad scans and ocrs that you have were either purchases or free downloads from the Kobo store? How many are of rather dubious provenance?

As for the Kobo library fragmentation? Kobo seems to be concentrating on epub2 and epub3 ebooks at this time. Since the Android and iOS apps don't have any cost associated with them, it's obvious that they are hoping to make money on purchases from their bookstore.

Regards,
David
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