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Old 03-15-2021, 06:44 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by Cootey View Post
When the Aura One was released, Kobo introduced integrated OverDrive support. This was a killer feature for me and won me over from upgrading my old Kindle at the time. When the Forma was released, Kobo introduced Dropbox support. I didn’t buy a Forma (I was still in love with my Aura One LE), but I’ve coveted that Dropbox support for two years now. What killer feature would you like to see in Kobo’s next flagship model?

Maybe you’ve heard something, or maybe you’ve got a killer feature you’re dying to see implemented—think KINDLE KILLER. Personally, I’d like to see (in order of importance), but I’m not sure they’re all Kindle killers:

3. Cloud backup even for side-loaded books
2. Family sharing
1. Color eInk

Kindle offers cloud backup of side-loaded books through their clunky documents feature. It works, but often book covers aren’t used.

Other ereaders offer color eInk now, but Kobo could put a dent in Kindle’s caché if it beat Amazon to market with a color model. Current Kindles are getting long in the tooth.

Family sharing could be said to have already been done on the Nook, but those were very restricted, one-time, time limited shares. I’d like for my daughter, who has her own account and Kobo, to be able to access and download from her Mother’s home any book I purchase for myself without need of DRM stripping and side-loading.

What are your ideas? Like Kobo AR goggles with no need to hold an ereader anymore and all page turning done by eye glances? Or something more realistic?


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Not a killer feature for everyone, but for developers like me it is the holy graal.
I would be absolutely amazed if they put U-Boot in some new SPI flash device that'd be (mostly) untouchable and read-only, and if on top of that they put an initrd that could be used for recovery purposes. With that, an eMMC device could be bricked and it would be as easy to unbrick it, like the ones with internal microSDs.

Any others sharing my point of view?
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