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Old 08-09-2013, 12:14 AM   #35
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Admittedly not quite on topic but the Kobo site just gave me some surprise. I accessed the German site to see if there were any changes and I couldn't see any. However, as I am currently in France and access the site via a French ISP Kobo has apparently decided that I am French and shows me French content only. The user interface is a wild mix of French and German. Who approves such a nonsensical website design? Why would they assume that someone who calls up their .de site is interested in French books just because his access is via a French ISP?
If you haven't logged in then they don't know who you are, so surely It is a reasonable default that someone with a French IP address gets the Kobo France site.

Once you log in the site you see should be based on the address you gave in your account information, regardless of your IP address.

(I still see the old format site from New Zealand, but if I change the address in my account information to a UK address then I see the new format site.)
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