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Originally Posted by ficbot
2) The desktop software is not very user-friendly.
3) The ability to delete books on the fly (i.e. you should not have to hook back up to a computer to delete a book you've just finished reading)
4) Support for either Word documents or some sort of plain text format.
5) And an auto-shutoff would help too. Every other device has one and I know I was quite alarmed the first time I left it on overnight and saw the next morning that it was still on the page I left it at and had not gone to sleep mode.
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Love these. +1
The desktop software, and the instructions to get up and running, have gaps. A little more hand-holding would be helpful. Putting the user guide on the device is ok, but that doesn't step you through what you need to do since it disappears the moment you connect the device to a computer.
Managing your library needs to be improved. There is no need for 1000s of titles on the device. It should be easy to delete stuff directly from the reader fully confident it can be dropped back on later.
I'm not so fussed about supporting user generated content -- even simple stuff like .txt and .doc. The Kobo is an entry level device for reading with an entry level price. If you need bells and whistles, there are other choices better suited ... with a corresponding price increase. The Kobo really shines as a "it's just for reading!!!" device.
Auto-shutoff may be irrelevant in terms of battery life, but it's comfy for the end-user. It should be invoked. That's one of the coolest things of the Kindle. And it means "instant on" is always lurking.
6) Please give us a way to manage the original 100 books installed. Let them show up in ADE so we can remove the ones we'll never read but keep just in case. After all, we paid for the
Communist Manifesto, even if we'll never read it or want it cluttering up the "Unread" section of the device.