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Originally Posted by Rizla
Yeah, fair enough. I'm just being bad 
I don't like that it forces you to upgrade firmware though. That should be a user choice. As should custom fonts. Does the Kobo force you to upgrade? From what I hear about Kobo FW, I hope not  |
You're not being bad at all, some of just detest the way everything now pushes the social twits on us in everything we do online and even offline. When I finish reading a book I don't want to see even 1 reminder about the dredges of the internet in 1 window that I have to then close. They could at least give a way to shut off all interaction with social media in the user settings if they feel the need to include them.
And unfortunately with Kobo, from the initial setup when you first purchase the reader, you're forced to update. Whenever you connect to wi-fi it will check and try to do an update. There are ways to keep it from updating though which is pretty simple if you're like me and really don't use the wi-fi. I prefer to keep all my book purchases in one location since I don't purchase from one source, so I only purchase from and download to my PC and then transfer books to my readers with Calibre.
Cybmole sums it up above pretty well how I feel about all the social media nagging on websites.
Edit: Nor do I want to be nagged to either rate the book or see what others have bought that also read this book. Just to cover that some of us are lumping this in as "social media" since you're asked to post the rating on Amazon and not Facebook/Twitter/Whatever.
It's one of several reasons I won't get a Kindle. But if all else was perfect with the Kindle and it had any type of nag either for its own ecosystem or other social media, I would still pass on it. There are other choices out there where you don't have to be irritated every time you finish a book, no matter how minor it might be.