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Kobo.com
What has happened to the website? Possibly many of you don't use it as you can do so many clever things with your readers.
The Kobo site had become quite good. Purchases arrived on my devices. Using 'Search' worked well enough. I generally found what I wanted. It wasn't an 'Amazon' but it did the job. Now it's a disaster.
I wanted to buy books for my holiday on Monday. I had a list, shopping should have been easy. It was a horrid 3 hours.
Choosing 'English' on the language menu didn't work. I had to battle through all sorts of different tongues.
The Author search brought up all sorts of books completely unrelated to my search criteria.
Now we have pretty pictures and very little else.
The previous list view with published date etc was far more useful.
Seeing a short synopsis, made browsing easy.
Tonight I have managed to buy three books, not the result I wanted.
For those like me who use their Kobo for reading and quick easy purchases the new website is a disaster.
Over the last year I have bought e-readers for two of my children. They had not experienced e-readers and weren't really interested. They read on their iPhones and i worried about their eyes. They now both love e-reading but I chose Kindle for them both knowing Amazon was familiar and easy for them and the Kobo website could be fiddly.
I have about 100 books in my Kobo Library but if their website isn't sorted out fairly fast I think I shall finally give up on my investment in Kobo and move on. Kobo alway try to run before they can walk and I think I am finally losing patience.
Ok someone please tell me I was just having a bad dream....
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