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Kasper Hviid · 06-13-2014, 04:56 AM

When I got my Kobo, I found it a bit silly to keep score of how many books I have read and for how many hours. I thought such a feature belonged in a video game and not in litterature.

But somehow I ended up loving that feature. Some of my motivation for starting on another book is to boost my reading score.

Still I think the archivements are a bit too stupid, and I'm still a bit irritated by the share-on-facebook feature. Even if I was a user of the facebook website, I wouldn't want to be 'connected' when reading a book. Constant distractions don't mix with deep concentrated reading.

I thinks it is a bit like what is described in THE SHALLOWS, where the author mentions how the multitasking and distractions we know from the internet gets incorporated into various aspects of our culture - in this case, book reading.

So, what do you think of the Kobo's more colorful features?

06-13-2014, 04:56 AM	#1
Kasper Hviid Zealot Posts: 141 Karma: 2784614 Join Date: Nov 2012 Device: none	Are you keeping score? When I got my Kobo, I found it a bit silly to keep score of how many books I have read and for how many hours. I thought such a feature belonged in a video game and not in litterature. But somehow I ended up loving that feature. Some of my motivation for starting on another book is to boost my reading score. Still I think the archivements are a bit too stupid, and I'm still a bit irritated by the share-on-facebook feature. Even if I was a user of the facebook website, I wouldn't want to be 'connected' when reading a book. Constant distractions don't mix with deep concentrated reading. I thinks it is a bit like what is described in THE SHALLOWS, where the author mentions how the multitasking and distractions we know from the internet gets incorporated into various aspects of our culture - in this case, book reading. So, what do you think of the Kobo's more colorful features?