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I find that a very funny statement. How can the software not decide for you what you want to do? The only way would be for it to read you mind. Or have an infinite number of options that you reconfigure each time you use it. Yes, I'm being a bit absurd, but that is the only way I can react to your statement.
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That's only because you are (purposely?) misunderstanding what OP is saying. One has to think here to the way Linux and Windows works. Or possibly Android vs iOS. One let's you tweak everything and do tasks as you choose. The other chooses what it finds best and behaves consequently. So, for example, the software is deciding a swpe right to left means "turn the page", yeah, but that's obvious. When at the last page (that you may very easily miss it actually is), Kobo OS decides it means a completely different thing (close the book), and this is "deciding what you want to do" in a much less obvious way. Not mentiong marking a book as finished and the rest.
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supporting that function. To my mind, loading a book to check the formatting is a relatively unusual activity. It might not be for people in this forum, but for the normal user, they wouldn't understand what you were worrying about.
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It isn't at all, when you get a new book and it's sideloaded, it may be incomplete, and you certainly don't want to read a whole lot of it only to discover your "copy" has not an end. If you only read directly purchased books this does not apply, but ereaders are not made only for books you only purchase.
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If you are reading fiction, how often is it that you don't know you are on the last page?
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All the times where the author has put some remarks after it (think of S. King's books for example), all the time there are final notes or acknoweledgments, and to use your words there are a hell of a lot of books like that. You don't know if there is more to come or not.
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Again, this is a matter of opinion of what the correct behaviour is. Personally, I've finished the book, so I want it recorded. On the occasions that I don't want that to happen, I just don't finish the book.
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No, it's a matter of opinion what you prefer most, the "correct" and the "wrong". There is, probably not such a concept - I mean "correct" - when talking about this subject, because there are not established rules on what is correct.
However, you can tell what is consistent and what is not. And for sure, Kobo behaviour is not consistent: "swipe" always means "turn page forward", except when you are at the last page, where it changes behaviour and it closes the book. Which, again might be preferred, but it also might be not.