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Okay I could say "after every update" instead. Just to be clear, I really appreciate pgaskin's work.
I use kobo readers for over a decade now. If I was still using my old Touch (which still works fine btw) I've had the exactly same kobo reading experience like I had in 2012 (plus what pgaskin's patches add to it).
So in almost 15 years, what did kobo actually add to the default reader?
- Dark mode (which should have been default in every reader, always), but just for books, not the UI.
- Fast page turning in 2018
- Light adjusting on the side, but not for the amber light
And literally that's it.
Since then the reading awards got broken and removed, which, wasn't helpful to everyone, but it could be a nice addition to people who got more motivated by it to make them read more. Same with the reading statistics, which become broken and completely useless in the past years.
You still have to manually install Nickelclock, just to have a simple clock in the book. Why? Why they didn't ever manage to add a simple clock to the reader? In koreader you can even have an alarm, if you really lost time and yourself in the book.
Also, tap zones. You can have the exactly same 4 options today, what you had in 2012 and only for the direction of page turning. Why?
Still limited margins, custom font options and I could go on...
There are tons of features they could have add in the past one and a half decade, but they didn't.
At least they could implement some of the patches (which are really useful) but they didn't ever do that either.
Don't get me wrong, I still like kobo the most from all brands. It's just stupid that they wasted such a long time instead of making their reader better.
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