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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
"IF you could design the user interface for the next Kobo Firmware"
It says "If you could design the user interface", now if the "you" being referenced were Theonna or myself a file browser that functions as well as those we are used to from our other ereading devices, would be a major part of the changes we would make. I would ask why some of you think such a suggestion would be out of bounds for this thread?
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Perhaps, a bit of diplomacy might be in order? Suggesting changes in the user interface is one thing. Perhaps if theonna had suggested that Kobo should add a file browser feature and stopped there. Instead he carried on to suggest that using a file browser and getting rid of the database entirely would be the single best improvement Kobo could make -- after all, searching through 1800 files for metadata every time is going to be much faster than doing it once and storing the results in a database. There is also the complaints that Kobo does not support languages that he wants to use --"adds ability to search within the books written on different languages(chinese, hindy, cyrillic)- go for it, but only after enabling a file browser."
As to why I feel his credibility is on the low side, look at into his complaints about copying ebooks to his Kobo where he went from 50 minutes to process ebooks, 30 minutes to copy them to his Kobo and 40 minutes for the Kobo to process the new content to 81 minutes to process the ebooks, 7 minutes to copy to his Kobo and 21 minutes for his Kobo to process. Evidently the time required to use the KoboTouchExtended plugin, which he had to have
deliberately chosen to use, to convert his epub ebooks to .kepub before copying them to his Kobo is a Kobo issue and not a computer, Calibre or user issue. Not to mention that while he attempted to copy 2450 books, that only 1845 arrived at the Kobo seemed to missed his notice.
And
PLEASE do all of us a favour and stop using hard line breaks in your messages.
Regards,
David