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Originally Posted by davidfor
Which is how it has always been for epubs. The chapter progress only works for kepubs. And the setting does have a note about this fact, though it doesn't explicitly state which formats the chapter progress does work for.
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You are missing the point, I mention the chapter progress on GUI because I wondered was it related to
the new more serious bug on the annotation. It used to give chapter progress for epubs, not just kepubs. It's now book progress.
I'm not interested in either page numbers or chapter progress % on the GUI when reading, only book % progress makes sense. The Slider on the navigator though uses page when % would be better. I am interested in chapter % progress in annotations. It used to do it. Then too, the GUI used to display how many annotations added and be able to ONLY display partially read/opened books on the Home screen.
There have been a couple of improvements and bug fixes since I bought the Kobo H2O, but overall it's going backwards in usability and I get the impression little testing/feedback on GUI, almost none on epubs or annotations.
I've found Kobo awkward to contact and in deep denial about bugs and negative GUI changes.
Yet a gain the tone of your post suggests anything rubbish about Kobo's software handling of epubs is fine because they do the management of the proprietary kepubs better. It's either malicious, careless or lazy, the aspects that don't work on epubs but do work on kepubs. Kobo are not Amazon and even how Amazon is building their monopoly using their proprietary format (a moving target), dishonest review system and Kindle Unlimited which devalues books and KDP Select which cheats content providers and insists on a monopoly. I don't understand why Kobo seems to have an ambition to copy all the worst aspects of Sony, Microsoft and Amazon behaviour.
The only way Kobo can stay relevant is to offer the best reading experience, best GUI, best library management, best Annotation. Also drop the spam / adverts and analytics and their own proprietary format. Complain to competition authorities about Amazon. The Lie on Amazon's ebook selling pages: "Read on any device", Amazon means ONLY general purpose mass market phones, tablets, PCs, BUT NOT anyone else's ereader.
I know Kobo has a shop. Look at how stupid B&N are making the Nook. Sony stupidly tied the existence of their ereaders to their shop, thus decided to ditch the entire product line because the shop was doing badly. Now they only have the high end PDF only Digital Paper.
Unless competitors to the eink Kindle do it far better and more open than Amazon there will only be the Kindle and maybe when eink competition is gone only the LCD Fire to save costs, a crippled cheap Android tablet, not a real ereader at all.
Despite the hope of Mirasol, the eink is the only tech surviving as a decent ereader tech. It's a pity Amazon was allowed to buy the Philips "eink" like tech, I think Sony owned it for a short while.
The future of eink based readers is fragile.