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Originally Posted by FJames
The double page turn is due to a simple software bug that could be easily fixed. Nobody seems to know why Kobo hasn't fixed it when it has been there for years.
There are bound to be many small bugs in any device this complex that gets used so much. You just learn to live with them and ignore them. I don't think any of them are a really big deal. I'm on my 3rd Kobo, and I don't regret buying any of them.
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I have learned to live with them but resent many of them strongly.
The slow shelf opening, the inconsistent and misnamed sorting, The alphabetical sorting for numbers, the non displaying of book covers with the awful square face being back, the lack of a back button in most places, and the only one they do have on the Aura doesn't work right, the jumpy slider bar and the much more cumbersome shelf navigation are but a few that irritate me. While not major bugs that totally make it unusable, I would not call them minor. Most are in the class of walking around with toilet paper stuck to your shoes and your fly undone for years at a time.
I don't regret buying the Kobo and Mini, although I have sworn to never buy a book from Kobo till they fix things up. I bought the Mini for it's size which is perfect for on the bus etc. and the Aura because I was going out of town to work in the extreme boonies and wanted a new toy to play with. And it has been almost a hobby trying to figure out what is going on and see if I can make it cry by minor changes in the conf. file
Too many bugs, too little time. Oddly enough my Sony and kindle readers do not seem to have many bugs. Maybe one or two which occur annually.
I hope that Kobo eventually sees the wisdom in an expression commonly used among programmers.
"There is never time to do it right, there is always time to do it over." But by then I will have most likely have moved on.
Helen