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Originally Posted by davidfor
I've never been able to figure it out. The only thing I could think of was that they hired UI designer who wanted to put his mark on things. And didn't really know what he was doing. I've recently had the chance to express my opinion on this to Kobo. I think they took it well.
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Yeah, you could be right. I have no knowledge myself either way of a UI consultant, obviously, but I'd be a bit surprised if the change was based on user feedback, which is why I wondered about screen space being raised as an issue. I keep relatively few titles on my e.book at any one time, largely because of the slow-down it imposes on navigating the library (and also because I don't have much of a tendency to dip into many books at once); I would have thought, for those with large libraries loaded on their Kobo, that anything that helped manage their collections would be welcome.
Anyway. Glad you managed to get feedback to Kobo on the matter; for my own part, I appreciate your doing that.
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I don't tend to use the in-line ToC. The systems ToC is much more useful. But, on these pages I will swipe f there isn't an easy place to tap.
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Yes, I swipe too, but I find the Kobo tends to misread it as a selection tap more often than I would like. It seems to have gotten better in the last few firmware releases... or maybe that's my imagination. (Always possible!)
The problem with the system ToC — and this varies from book to book, of course — is that its usefulness is reliant on how thorough the ebook publisher has been in naming sections. In my own experience (and I'm speaking of commercial, legal books, not pirates), the wording that appears in the system ToC is often far from helpful.
Anyway. I know there are a couple of "feature wishlist" threads, so I might go and post a couple of suggestions there. Do Kobo developers still skim these threads, do you know?