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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
Actually, I am using my Kobo AuraHD, exactly as I intended when I bought it, to read ebooks. I take it you mean "as KOBO intended".
I appreciate the device that Kobo put up for sale, it is a pretty good piece of hardware. I also like that they were (at least at the start) open with their software approach. Kobo provided the hardware that some very talented people (who post here, by the way) could port other ereading programs onto.
With these ported programs I can use my Kobo device to read any of the ~7000 ebooks that I usually have on my AuraHD, in "hidden" folders on both internal and external uSD cards.
I, for one, do not buy many things with the intention of using them only as someone else thinks I should. I have a use in mind when I buy things, but it can often be something the seller would have never thought of. (I should post my "Chicken Acapulco" recipe) I doubt Kobo would approve of my opening the case of the device (their device? or my device?) and upgrading the internal uSD card. They could be in shock about the hatch I put in my case, to make the internal card accessible. I have no interest in gathering data on my reading habits and providing them to Kobo or Google. I don't want any "Awards" or recommendations from Kobo and can keep my libraries safe and managed on my own PCs/network. So... if these things are required to be "using a Kobo" "as intended" then you are right, I am not, and I never intended to.
As to other users, I can at least point out where perhaps there are good reasons to consider using their Kobo devices in a manner other than Kobo intended.
Luck;
Ken
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Actually Ken, I think the majority of the users here are with you on the salient points you make. Most of us bought the reader to read. Not to view pictures, not to play games, not to surf the internet, and not to hack so far away from the original kobo programming as to be unrecognizable. But we did buy it to read and read we shall.
regards
JAck