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Originally Posted by DNSB
By the reader program, are you referring to the RMSDK renderer used for ePub files (basically an ePub2 renderer that handles Adobe's ADEPT DRM) or the ACCESS/WebKit/Readium based renderer used for kepub with excellent support for ePub3 features? The RMSDK renderer has not moved to the later versions (ADE 4 equivalent) which would have better ePub3 features. Using their own renderer allows Kobo to use their own encryption and avoid the cost for books sent with ADEPT encryption.
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I mean by user experience, using koreader as a reference and compare the differences between the two. Like what was the reading experience in 2015 with nickel and koreader, and what is today.
Koreader is free and open source, while to use Nickel you (probably) have to pay for it in some way, as you can only use it on kobo hardware.
I use Nickel, and I like it, but why we still can't have a clock on the reader by default? They could just add a toggle for it. There were reading awards, which broke like around 2018, then disappeared from the firmware a couple of years ago. (This one is not a big deal though, but was cute and may motivated people to read more.) So small things like that could've been improved, but they haven't. We have almost more toggles in user patches than actual settings on a kobo reader.
Of course it is still better than amazon who only cares about DRM.