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Originally Posted by eschwartz
As for your main complaints against Kobo, it sounds like you mostly want two things -- decent dictionary support and transferring notes from Sony.
Transferring notes won't happen. No one does it, everyone has a unique system, and that will be fixed whenever the IDPF gets their rear in gear and writes some standards that are useful for a change.
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Yes, I completely agree with this. It's not going to happen until someone writes the standards and code to support it.
Of course, as both the Kobo and Sony stores the annotations in a database, use RMSDK and its standard for location information in epubs, it wouldn't be hard* to write the code to transfer the annotations from one to the other. It would just need someone with the skills, time and interest** to do it.
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If you want good dictionaries, get a Kindle. Kobo does not compete with Amazon when it comes to dictionaries.
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The annoying thing is that Kobo has set up things so that the dictionaries can be replaced. When this happened, I was hoping they would sell better dictionaries as an upgrade. Or other dictionaries. It is fairly easy to replace them, but they can get overridden during a sync. Of course, sourcing the better dictionary is a problem.
* I'm a programmer, I'm allowed to make throw away claims like that about my profession.
** I have a slight technical interest, but I can find lots of other things to occupy my time. And occasionally I actually read a book.