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Originally Posted by mramosch
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The problem for me is that I read at about 1,000 WPM. Any audio book playback is at a far lower speed or totally undecipherable by my ears. As for mentioning things like listening to books while driving? I really don't need to get nicked for distracted driving.
As for using the types of books you seem to want Kobo to support despite the hardware limitations? I have my desktop computer, laptop computer, iPad Pro and Lenovo M8 tablet for when I want to scratch those itches. Yes, 3/4 of them were more expensive than my Sage but sometimes, you need an i9-24 core with 64GB of memory and 4TB of PCI4 SSD storage to keep yourself from dying from impatience. I worked in IT for decades and needed my toys to do much of my work and have seen little reason not to continue keeping them up to date.
I read books in English mostly with the occasional French, German and Spanish book where the language to English dictionaries tend to get a good workout.
If I want to translate a book, I use the Ebook Translator plugin in calibre and let my desktop do the heavy lifting. Similarly I use a calibre plugin for converting an ebook to audio. Every once in a while, I give audiobooks another try. So far nothing but cold pancakes and no honey.
As for interactive ebooks? They've been pushed at least since Ted Nelson in the 1960s. So far, any efforts that I've seen have convinced me that interactive books are little more than a solution in search of a problem.
Media overlays? The last interactive book project I was involved with was a ebook with media overlays ended up foundering on the sheer size of the book. 2MB for the original books, 307MB for the media overlay version in development—those images and audio files chewed up space like it was free. The project was eventually dumped though they had the sense to stop the project while they could still pay out the contractors (my personal opinion as one of those contractors). There may have been a few fans who would have purchased the ebook regardless of size and cost but not enough to make it financially viable considering that it had issues with Amazon's requirements so would miss out on the elephant in the ebook market.