[davidfor]

Originally Posted by pefilix

because first, if there is non logical thing it hurts my logic. second someone's sake effects other ones.

look, charged means either charged an electronic device or paying money for anything else and teher is different words in turkish for this. they use wrong word for their interface translation. think about that they use google translate for translation

If Kobo have mistranslated something, please tell them. They do fix things. And generally, fixing a translation issue is simple. Especially if someone tells them exactly what is wrong and why. Hell, post it here somewhere as well so it is visible to more people.

But, I am a little surprised that there is an issue with the Turkish translation. My understanding was that it was added when they did a deal with a Turkish ebook store. I would have expected they were involved in the translation.

they change main screen layout an this is not for improve user experience. they limit the recent books section and add suggestion books section from their book store. because they dont care is main screen useful, they care how many they can sell.

Of course they care how many the sell. They are a business and it is the responsibility of any business to make a profit. Or at least keep selling to pay their bills and employees and keep going.

But, the latest version of the Kobo home screen is in response to the customers complaints. While lots of people, including me, loved the previous home screen, a lot of people found it confusing. And, just like the previous one, it responds to you usage. I haven't seen the recommendations on the home screen since about 10 minutes after updating to this version of the home screen. And, if I compare what is on the current home screen to what was on the previous one, I saw a lot more "ads" on the previous one.

same way, they dont care is user can set easily epub layout margins typography etc. they dont care is pdf readable on device. Because they dont want sideload books, they want sell books from their bookstore with .kobo extension.

Again, I disagree. Kobo support sideloaded books very well. And as far as I can see, they are the best for supporting the code in epubs. They don't allow as much on-device tweaking of book, but, the devices and apps that do, tend to get as many complaints because they ignore the books styles. There is an argument either way, I'd prefer the styles in the book to be used, because when they are completely overridden, you can lose information.

For PDFs, I believe that Kobo does an excellent job of rendering them. Performance is crap, but, that's because the devices are deliberately low-spec. Navigation, if you need to zoom is terrible as well. I'm never try to deny that, and I accept that a low-powered device is going to be bad. And yes, I don't think Kobo have any real priority on PDF handling as they recognise that epub and similar are much better on devices like that. Though they did put some changes in the last firmware release to improve PDF performance. No idea how much it helps as I am just not interested in reading PDFs.

Kobo have also spent a lot of time advertising their devices as "open". They pointed out you could get books from a lot of places and put them on their devices. They don't place as much emphasis on this now, but, sideloading books is still well supported.


And in response to the first post: One size does not fit all. For any job, you should choose tool that fits you and the job the best. For some, this is a big tablet, for others, a simple dedicated ebook reader.