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mramosch · 01-31-2025, 02:04 PM

Well, the KOBO device is also intended to be used only with the KOBO reader app and nevertheless we are using NickelMenus and KOreaders and Jailbreaks etc.

I really don’t get your point!

Yours is just an opinion and isn’t frankly very helpful here.

I mean, and I really don’t wanna be rude at all, you are of course totally entitled to have your own opinion, but there are people that don’t live the way you do.

I for instance do not own a computer or a phone and I will never have one, but I do have several thousands of real books and now an eReader. I have to walk 12 miles to the next neighbors in order to talk with you fine folks over the internet.

Am I not allowed to make the best out of my situation and decide for myself whether I sacrifice my battery charge for a few days of music or audiobook listening instead of a week or two of reading.

And when you say that ”the audio functionality on Kobo ereaders is intended only for Kobo supplied Audiobooks” this isn’t really true either. Who says that? KOBO? Well in this case I would ask you why then KOBO offers this hack of zipping mp3 files into an archive and rename it to .mp3z in order to open up a kind of (I guess hardcoded) hack-ish JS epub or interface that lets us play these mp3s in the most rudimentary way possible?

Some people here even mentioned that embedded audio works on their (older) devices…

I guess what I am trying to say is that defending KOBO on your part doesn’t help us users nor does it help KOBO in the long run. It would be understandable if it were for some hardware or processing power limitations, but that is clearly not the case. So it is simply some arbitrary decision that will hurt them when now all those new companies like Onyx Boox and BigMe etc. are delivering devices that offer much much more functionality at a very competitive price.

To sum it all up I think it is pretty stupid of them to insist on locking us in their eco-system like all the Apples and Amazons do and at the same time pretending to be different and more user oriented.

But of course this is also just an opinion and maybe non of my business ;-) So I will stop ranting…

Thanks to you and to all of you for letting me be a part of this community.

Hope to have some more fruitful discussions soon!

01-31-2025, 02:04 PM	#45
mramosch Connoisseur Posts: 57 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2024 Device: KOBO	Well, the KOBO device is also intended to be used only with the KOBO reader app and nevertheless we are using NickelMenus and KOreaders and Jailbreaks etc. I really don’t get your point! Yours is just an opinion and isn’t frankly very helpful here. I mean, and I really don’t wanna be rude at all, you are of course totally entitled to have your own opinion, but there are people that don’t live the way you do. I for instance do not own a computer or a phone and I will never have one, but I do have several thousands of real books and now an eReader. I have to walk 12 miles to the next neighbors in order to talk with you fine folks over the internet. Am I not allowed to make the best out of my situation and decide for myself whether I sacrifice my battery charge for a few days of music or audiobook listening instead of a week or two of reading. And when you say that ”the audio functionality on Kobo ereaders is intended only for Kobo supplied Audiobooks” this isn’t really true either. Who says that? KOBO? Well in this case I would ask you why then KOBO offers this hack of zipping mp3 files into an archive and rename it to .mp3z in order to open up a kind of (I guess hardcoded) hack-ish JS epub or interface that lets us play these mp3s in the most rudimentary way possible? Some people here even mentioned that embedded audio works on their (older) devices… I guess what I am trying to say is that defending KOBO on your part doesn’t help us users nor does it help KOBO in the long run. It would be understandable if it were for some hardware or processing power limitations, but that is clearly not the case. So it is simply some arbitrary decision that will hurt them when now all those new companies like Onyx Boox and BigMe etc. are delivering devices that offer much much more functionality at a very competitive price. To sum it all up I think it is pretty stupid of them to insist on locking us in their eco-system like all the Apples and Amazons do and at the same time pretending to be different and more user oriented. But of course this is also just an opinion and maybe non of my business ;-) So I will stop ranting… Thanks to you and to all of you for letting me be a part of this community. Hope to have some more fruitful discussions soon! Last edited by mramosch; 01-31-2025 at 02:08 PM.