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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
And that is the major source of their problems. The database as an improved
settings table, has some added value, but it is an annoying overreach to try
and manage the reading of files through the database. Every non-Kobo file
is made without consideration of the data placement and construction needs
of your database.
Henry Ford: "Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants
so long as it is black." It seems that policy may have changed, could
customer comments/requests have had some impact?
I see no reason to "accept" things as they are, if that means I should not
ask for and suggest what I feel would be improvements. I fully expect that
Kobo will not be overly moved by my comments. I do think that hackers
could be looking at an opportunity of a lifetime.
Personally, I thing Kobo will find their approach counterproductive in the
long run, much of it seems based on an "interconnected" social environment
fad. It is an unnecessary risk when they could easily have both.
Luck;
Ken
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I think Kobo is using an approach opposite to Amazon's. Their goal seems to be to sell ereaders by making their books more attractive to the paper book holdouts by trying to make kepubs appear like paper books to those who prefer paper. Amazon wants to sell ebooks, while Kobo seems to want to sell ereaders.
I think this is a lost cause from a profit making standpoint, but good luck with that there
Then faced with the sometimes virulent feedback of those of us who don't like page headers they put firmware headers on epubs as well, assuming, I guess, that we will learn to like page headers if they are forced upon us.
I think that this is counterproductive because it gives those who prefer kepub headers the option of shopping around for better prices without losing that feature, while those of us who dislike kepubs because of the headers and chapter numbers may choose not to shop at the kobo store.
Making an epub look like a kepub, will probably not affect the social networking crowd market, so why do it?
My Kobo mini and Aura are quite nice, but I will probably be replacing them in the fall with a different brand of reader, because of the lack of robust firmware, and my strong dislike of kepubs. ( I did read 10 kepubs just to see if they grew on me). The mini I got for its pocket size, while the Aura I bought on a whim.
Casual readers, (those who read less than a book a week?) probably don’t care, but I feel that resentment is growing among the 2-7+ books a week crowd. Some of us won’t buy a kobo book through our readers for fear of accidentally updating firmware, and some of us wouldn’t even buy a free book from Kobo because of the seeming love it or shove it attitude, and lack of attention to basic reading and shelf functions.