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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
I think Kobo has been once again shooting themselves in the foot, by adding things and taking them away in a random manner.
I have never seen such a controversy over the Sony or Amazon use of screen space and menus in the Sony and Kindle forums.
The Sony has had a menu bar on the bottom, not disimiliar to the Kobo one, and nobody seemed to take offense at it.
The Kindle had a menu bar, then they hid it, had location numbers and changed to page numbers etc. which caused some dsicontent, but nothing like the sheer outrage being generated by Kobo.
Of course were and are far more robust and functional in terms of basic reading and navigation although sorting on the kindle three at least was a tad bizarre to me (most kindle owners seemed fine with it).
I am all for choice, but I think I value reliabilty and stabilty more. Sure give those who want features the features, I won't be upset by there presence. Just don't keep randomly deleting basic functions to add those features. Add another screen or menu level, like the other software based systems.
When I bought my Mini it had a functional back button. Now it doesn't although I have glimpsed it twice before it was covered up by the menu bar.
Surely if they were going to delete the back button they should have deleted the code that displayed it instead of just displaying it and displaying something else on top of it. This seems to be very sloppy programming practice, that should not be condoned by Kobo management.
Then they take away the ability to have a black menu bar, which I have never used, but many like and no one seems to know why. It is like a crap shoot, almost Pavlovian in the sequence of good ereader, bad ereader, better in one function ereader one day , and worse than ever ereader the next (the book I was reading opened 12 page turns back today the forth time opening it after upgrading to 2.61, I was sort of used to 1-4 page turns, and I do not have any margins).
Then there is the kepub epub thing. What do they hope to gain by that I wonder. Saving some money on ADE. I don't think so as they must pay it anyway if they are selling access to both formats together.
Oh well sorry for ranting like a lunatic and I hope I haven't thrown the thread more off topic than it already was. Good idea for a thread BTW.
Helen
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Rant rant rant rant rant away if you must, That's the purpose of this thread voice your opinions frustrations and more. Hopefully some good ideas will come from this thread and who knows maybe the kobo gods will hear.... one always hopes.
Regards
Jack