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Originally Posted by davidfor
Can you point to the proof?
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Yes. First, if you never buy books from Kobo, which I took the habit of doing because (at least French ones) the first ebooks were so bad in 2011, you were able to put your books only on the memory card till version 2.5. This was a very handy feature: if you had to reset the device, you removed the card first, and books were parsed again when you restarted with the card in.
Since version 2.6, the card is no longer checked at start. You have to plug it again, books are badly parsed only when you plug the SD card and several plug/unplug cycles cause the card data to be damaged or Kobo database to be altered.
Second, you have no choice of updating the firmware or not. I connected my Kobo to Kobo desktop after reverting to 2.4.0, only in order to activate my Kobo again. But the update began immediately, without letting me the ability of disconnecting my device before. So I decided to use the Linux validation with sqlite3.
Third, this misadventure made me experience the last firmware for some minutes. The display of the homepage was bad (text not centered at bottom, at least in French). Several new features were introduced, links to things that are useless to me and no longer to my recent readings. I could not find any way to disable those stupid Reading Life features, I feared Facebook would invade my private life. Not to speak about Google Analytics which is always running and sending my reading statistics to Big Brother Google.
I want to read independently for myself, not to be a zombie manipulated by the capitalistic system.