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Originally Posted by theonna
Look at Apple Itunes, Google Music, Sony Reader-
they seems to be able to resolve the issues that Kobo doesn't want to deal with. Also many people have collections of electronic books by now, completely legally obtained, documents, that they themselves own for work and more, if Kobo wants to gain them as customers and receive their praise- they better rethink their strategy.
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I'll have to disagree. While iBooks allows me to copy my own ebooks to one of my iDevices using iTunes, those books, annotations, reading position, etc. are not automatically synchronized to another iDevice using iTunes on the device. If I can synchronize it to the same computer using either wifi or USB, I can get the books copied over. No annotations, notes, reading position, etc. If I try this with my iPad which is a work device, I would lose a collection of apps and PDF reference materials that are work related and are placed on it when it is setup by the IT department. See the nasty warnings about being synchronized to another iTunes library when you plug an iDevice into the wrong computer.
If the computer those books are on crashes, I am out of luck unless I have my own backups.
As for the other major concern about privacy, Kobo is a Canadian company. So as you said, people have collections of documents. Legally obtained. All theirs. Now copy those documents or just the information about them to a third party server without informed consent. Enjoy the privacy lawsuit as you have just violated the PIPEDA provisions on collecting, using and disclosing personal information in the course of commercial activities.
Even if you did give explicit consent, Kobo would still be obligated to make any information collected available to the consumer for viewing and correction and guarantee that none of the information would be accessed by a third party.
See the
Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act for more information on the legalities. For a small fee, the Queen's Printer will supply you with your very own copy or
For more information:
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
112 Kent Street, Ottawa, ON K1A 1H3
www.priv.gc.ca
Regards,
David