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Originally Posted by Nick_1964
I am almost sure they read with "us" blocking all leaked features.
Stupid, I buy an expensive Aura HD to find out that I had to wait for patches from willing people to use it.
Ok, photo/screenshot is not an advertized feature, but only the stupidity that I can't use the whole page and to find out that another device like my Sony at 6 inch displays more text (with the same font settings) then an unpatched 7 inch Aura HD.
And with every upgrade to make it "better" they disablethe patches more and more, hide them deeper in the firmware.
The only right as a buyer you have now with Kobo is: Never attach it to the internet unpatched, never do a sync, don't use the Kobo software for PC because they can disable everything and change my device that I buyed with a set of options,into something else, and disable options I had and payd for.
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This thread seems to be about "unauthorized" ways to use Nickel, to make it function more like users may want. That is one approach, another is to use other software, than what Kobo provides, and that can be just as valid and would be much less likely to be subject to the whims of Kobo's marketing efforts. The other reading software just lets you read ebooks, no social media, no gathering statistics, no "prizes". Some of the "other than Kobo" software includes games and utilities, as well as a great Start Menu that can let you avoid the Nickel UI altogether.
I don't miss the database or pretty icon display of book covers. I am not one who needs to know how many books I have read, I read for my own enjoyment, not to reach some goal, or provide others (Google or Kobo) with marketing data. Kobo can keep their "Prizes/Awards", I haven't bought but one ebook from them, anyway. A "Sync" feature might become an issue, if my memory were to fail to the point I couldn't find my place in a book I am reading on more than one device. For books read from a single device, the readers keep track of what page I am on just fine. I have my Library of thousands of ebooks organized in a file structure that the basic "File Managers" used by the "other than Kobo" reading software have no trouble with. (Not subject to Database corruption.)
Good luck getting Nickel and the Kobo supplied readers to function as you want them to, I find using the alternative readers much less stressful and more fun anyway.
Luck;
Ken